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40571
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Seminar
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A
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4:00PM
-6:40PM
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312 Art and Design Building
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Reitz, E
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- Part of Term:
- 1
- Date Range:
- 08/26/19-12/11/19
- Section Info:
- Topic: The Decolonial Turn. This seminar focuses on struggles against colonialism and coloniality in the Americas since 1492. Our emphasis on the “decolonial turn” is meant to highlight the increasing institutionalization of activist, cultural, and intellectual efforts undertaken in the name of decolonization. In U.S. universities, for example, African diasporic anti-colonial theory and Latin American decolonial theory have become familiar touchpoints in the scholarship and syllabi of even traditionally Eurocentric disciplines like art history (and, surely, in no small part due to the well-established authority of postcolonial theory in the academy). So, too, recent decades have witnessed the emergence of crucial fields like Africana Studies, Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, and Settler Colonial Studies. In the arts and so-called art world, by comparison, demands to decolonize are frequently voiced in protest of major cultural institutions and, at the same time, incorporated into museum outreach and programming. Our seminar analyzes these developments in the context of the proliferating violences of global racial capitalism and its extractive economies. Throughout the semester, we will concentrate primarily on the Americas, but always with an eye to the inextricability of events taking place elsewhere, from the Bandung Conference to #RhodesMustFall. We will never lose sight of the fact that this present-day decolonial turn must be understood within the larger tide of resistance to colonialism—and the co-option and recuperation thereof—over the past 500+ years. As we untangle the nuances of anti-colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial critiques and practices, we will also investigate the parameters of related conceptualizations of the antecolonial, the trans*colonial, and the post+colonial. Together, we will question how decolonization and decoloniality—especially decolonial aesthesis, the decolonization of our senses and sensibilities—have been imagined to look, sound, and feel, whether in the drawings of the Sans Arc Lakota medicine man and artist Black Hawk or in the writings of the Jamaican novelist, playwright, and theorist Sylvia Wynter. Above all, our priority will be to interrogate how these histories, ideas, and ongoing struggles bear on our own work as thinkers, artists, researchers, writers, curators, and teachers. Graduate students from across fields and disciplines are most welcome.
- Restriction(s):
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Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
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