DECOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES ON EUROPE – TRANSVERSAL EPISTEMOLOGIES AND POLITICS
3 February 2025
18:00 Uhr
Lecture
Logensaal, Logenstr. 1l
European University Viadrina
Frankfurt (Oder)
In this session, we will report on current projects and highlight the urgency of decolonial and postcolonial approaches for achieving a deeper understanding of European traditions. Through brief inputs from philosophy, cultural, and literary studies, we will discuss the constitutive role of colonial violence in the formation of European cultures, as well as how it has been resisted. Additionally, we will reflect on how decolonial and postcolonial critiques provide, on one hand, a precise understanding of structures of violence and power, and on the other hand, open up possibilities for transversal critique and solidarities beyond ethnic identities.
(Online presentation via Zoom)
Revisiting racial regimes of property and war:
Theorems of colonial dispossession in early modern philosophy
Katja Diefenbach
EUV Frankfurt/Oder
Radical ambivalence of project Yugoslavia:
Rupture and Socialist Modernization
Gal Kirn
EUV Frankfurt/Oder
The importance of the decolonial approach for the Global East and the survival of the idea of critical theory
Sanja Petkovska
University of Belgrade
On the coloniality of becoming European: The duty and desire of historical existence in early modern Europe
Pablo Valdivia Orozco
EUV Frankfurt/Oder
Curated by Agata Lisiak (Bard College Berlin), Céline Barry (Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung der Technischen Universität Berlin) and Pablo Valdivia Orozco (EUV Frankfurt/Oder).
In cooperation with Gal Kirn (EUV Frankfurt/Oder), Sanja Petkovska (University of Belgrad) and Katja Diefenbach (EUV Frankfurt/Oder) (tbc).
Participants: Katja Diefenbach (tbc), Gal Kirn, Sanja S. Petskova, Pablo Valdivia Orozco