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Call for Applications Theme: Slavery: The Past and Present of Social (Un)Justice Subtitle: Introducing the Decolonial Option Type: 4th Decolonial Summer School Middelburg Institution: University College Roosevelt Utrecht University Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University Location: Middelburg (Netherlands) Date: 24.6.–9.7.2013 Deadline: 14.6.2013 __________________________________________________ The construction of democratic and equitable futures requires us to understand the ways in which unjustness is being perpetuated. Modernity/coloniality has been, and continues to be, a system of believing and sensing that exercises (un)justice in the name of salvation. Decolonial justice proceeds by recognizing the colonial wound and opening paths of healing. Slavery remains the most telling process in the formation of Western civilization and the modern/colonial world. From the XVI to early XIX centuries, the Atlantic was the scenario where human beings were traded as commodities. While Atlantic slavery was abolished through the nineteenth century, its legacy remains alive and well today. Slavery is a historical reality upon which Western modernity built its economic foundations at the same time that it managed to “normalize” the dispensability of human lives. This seminar explores the historical singularities of racism as the justification of Atlantic slavery and, conceptually, it explore how racism and patriarchy continue to justify the commodification of human lives. We will conduct this exploration through history, theory, art, religion, gender and racism. The 4th edition of the Middelburg Decolonial Summer School focuses on "Slavery: The Past and Present of Social (Un) Justice". It is designed to investigate the logic and presupposition of Global Un-justice in the modern/colonial world, from 1500 to 2000. The seminar takes place in Middelburg, a key city in the formation of Western power and a center of Dutch slave trade and it is set against the backdrop of the 150 anniversary of the abolition of slavery in The Netherlands. We will pay special attention to emerging projects, parallel to the decoloniality option, who are working toward overcoming the legacies of the Colonial difference and more generally the South-North divide. If un-justices operate at all levels of the socio-economic and cultural spectrum, from economy to politics, from religion to aesthetics, from gender and sexuality to ethnicity and racism, and above all, in the control of knowledge, the decolonial task, that of overcoming coloniality requires the participation of many people in many areas of knowing and doing. Activists, artists, scholars, journalists will, among others, contribute to the goals of the 4th edition of the Decolonial Summer School in Middleburg. A registration form is available at the Utrecht Summer School Website: http://utrechtsummerschool.nl/index.php?type=courses&code=S21 Deadline for registration: 14 June 2013 In cooperation with: The Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University Course Leader: Walter Mignolo and Rolando Vázquez Faculty: Jean Casimir Maria Lugones Fabian Barba Alanna Lockward Patrice Naiambana Ovidiu Tichindeleanu If you have questions please email us at: [email protected] Contact: Dr. Rolando Vázquez University College Roosevelt Email: [email protected] Web: http://utrechtsummerschool.nl/index.php?type=courses&code=S21 __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
