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Call for Applications Theme: Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Subtitle: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons Type: International Summer Institute Institution: Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues Location: Barcelona (Spain) Date: 9.–19.7.2012 Deadline: 5.3.2012 __________________________________________________ The Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues (Barcelona, Spain) is now accepting applications for its two-week summer institute open to advanced undergraduate/graduate students, post-doctoral candidates, junior faculty and professionals on decolonial thought and knowledge. The international Summer School, "Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons" will be in its fourth year and aims at enlarging the scope of the conversation (analysis and investigation) of the hidden agenda of modernity (that is, coloniality) in the sphere of knowledge, power and higher education. The basic questions are: - Who produces and transmits knowledge and understanding? - What institutions support the production of hegemonic knowledge and understanding and why are knowledges and understandings that lack support from such institutions not validated as institutional knowledge and understanding? - How do we think about the relation between culture and political-economy in complex non-reductive ways? - What is coloniality of being and how to think about decolonization of being? - What is the cartography of power of the modern/colonial Capitalist/Patriarchal World-system and how to re-conceptualize the struggles to decolonize and transcend it? The professors invited for the 2012 Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Summer School are drawn from our affiliated faculty and cover different thematic fields of study, historical periods and regions of the world: Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the US. Affiliated faculty include: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Emma Pérez, Linda Martín Alcoff, Salman Sayyid, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Chela Sandoval, Ramón Grosfoguel, Houria Bouteldja, Kwame Nimako, Stephen Small, Tiffany Ruby Patterson, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, James Cohen, Michael Omi, Daphne V. Taylor-García, Lars Jensen and Alejandro Vallega The course is offered in English. Second Round Deadline for Applications: March 5, 2012. http://www.dialogoglobal.com/barcelona/application.php Costs for the July 9-19 intensive seminars: - 1st Option: Tuition only: EUR 1,300 - 2nd Option: Tuition + Shared Room (1-2 other participants): EUR 1,600 Location: Barcelona, Spain (important social and cultural center of Spain and the Catalonia region, right on the Mediterranean Sea) You can check the web page below for more information, and please, do send this message on to potentially interested people and networks: http://www.dialogoglobal.com/barcelona You can also write to the following email address if you have any questions: [email protected] __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
