Democracy, Slavery and the Decolonial Option

label Diverse autorenew 2025-09-29, 17:01 history_edu Ioana Dinescu
Today, the idea of "democracy" that was globalized through European imperial expansions is no longer the only way to conceive and organize harmonic and convivial societies. The crisis of "western democracy" demands closer examination and invites us to seriously consider other conceptions to achieve peaceful futures. The seminar will address the question of democracy in the light of the historical connections between "civilization and slavery" between "modernity and coloniality".

Period
16-06-2014 - 01-07-2014 (3 weeks)

Target group
Designed for graduate students (Phd and Ma) from all disciplinary backgrounds.We will encourage participants interested in creating working groups that will continue decolonial research agendas after the end of the seminar. The working groups will develop reports and activities that may take the form of traditional paper, video-documentary, web-page, artistic creation, museum exhibitions, community work or other initiatives connected to the participants interests. The course is also open to interested advanced bachelor students. (Students from University College Roosevelt can obtain full credits with the writing of a final research paper)

Course aim
The course will make the students acquainted with the most current debates around the decolonial critical thought, in particular in relation to the construction of alternative futures. It also aims at articulating research groups and networks that would complete the summer course with concrete agendas for producing original and collaborative projects aimed at enriching and furthering the scope of the decolonial debate.



Credits
6.0 ECTS credits

Course fee
EUR 950[Convert to USD] 950 - Course + course materials + housing

Course leader
prof. Walter Mignolo (Duke University)prof. Jean Casimir (Haiti)prof. Dilip Menon (South-Africa)dr. Ovidiu Tichindeleanu (Romania)Alanna Lockward (Berlin)Jeanette Ehlers (Copenhagen)Patricia Kaersenhout (Amsterdam)Patrice Naiambana (London)

Utrecht University
Address: PO BOX 80148
Postal code: 3508 TC
City: Utrecht
Country: Netherlands
Website: http://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl
E-mail: summerschool@uu.nl
Phone: 0031302534400