[Latina-o_studies] Feb 2nd Lecture on Decolonizing Philosophy

[Delgadillo, Theresa]

Save the Date: Guest Lecture by Dr. Eduardo Mendieta


















Date: Friday, February 2, 2018
Time: 4:00 - 6:00 pm
Place: TBA

Title: DECOLONIZING PHILOSOPHY: A LATINX PERSPECTIVE

Abstract: In this talk, Dr. Eduardo Mendieta<http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=00139nEU9CDm1AR-9TsViUbYEuXak-ncOm3iKEt4U-I0YcxV_8hbsC1_s3eVx8TUJas4QcM2TrswTM40c9EMeTZAB4-0HTFs5H5BA4FVOaFaOCtA_Ah-EuwPZMESWaVymRuvOH4nAB_hTM8N3V9l3WhJM2VCWEUJvb0Wi6VhZU5Q0t9exNtU4I0zmgrPUQ0itVO9dD_vtt2qMo=&c=JHANjskRKAcjeg55PoU-JZllN6aKuehiHkPEdi2oMPrLcH8TXgwHsQ==&ch=cyPG5ackt1Nef6TzpXQL817bL-NSAkecpUYIMfPegbj9eJnkUpH-UA==>, faculty member in the Department of Philosophy at Penn State University, will discuss why we need to think of philosophy as a temporalizing / detemporalizing-spatializing / de-spacializing device; what Dr. Mendieta calls a chronotopological dispositif. He will present arguments for why before we begin the practice of decolonizing philosophy, we need to think of philosophy as a site of colonization, the moraine of a sedimented history of colonial practices and imaginaries. This calls for new ways of doing both the history of philosophy and expanding the repertoire of what are considered 'philosophical questions.' Mendieta will take a step back and offer two genealogies of philosophy that illustrate the contaminated origins of philosophy, and will discuss briefly what he would take to be the praxis of decolonial thinking and philosophizing from a Latinx perspective.

Sponsors to date: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Center for Latin American Studies, Geography, & Philosophy















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