Workshop and discussion of recent work by the keynote speakers for Decolonizing Knowledge Symposium. For reading materials, please contact Leah Rosenberg rosenber@ufl.edu
In the last decade indigenous studies have emerged as a crucial theoretical site for understanding and critiquing the settler colonial present and for decolonial thinking. This symposium will address national and hemispheric …
Abraham I. Acosta, For more than twenty years now, the concepts of coloniality of power and settler colonialism have been pivotal in the formation and development of decolonial critiques of …
Macarena Gomez-Barris, “Archival Disappearances and Southern Submerged Perspectives of Resurgence” In this talk, I address how to think about the colonial archive in relation to disappearance and Indigenous resurgence in …
Christa J. Olson “Nuestras Reliquías Históricas” and the Rhetorical Work of Ancestors at Machu Picchu” Between 1911 and 1915, Yale University Professor Hiram Bingham III and his Yale Peruvian Expedition …
Speakers: Deepthi Siriwardena “Towards a Sri Lankan Feminism: Reading Sunethra Rajakarunanayke’s Metta” Dan Shurley “Philadelphia’s Forgotten Forebears: How Pennsylvania Erased The Lenape From Local History” Ivette Rodriguez “Anzaldua Pedagogies: Decolonizing …
In April 1980 renowned African writer Chinua Achebe and African American literary giant James Baldwin met for the first time at the African Literature Association conference devoted to the African …
FLY ME TO THE MOON (2019), is a feature documentary by Jamaican independent filmmaker Esther Figueroa, that takes us on a journey into the unexpected ways we are all connected on Planet Earth, by following aluminum - the metal of modernity - around the world and into space.
The Department of English’s undergraduate Community Engagement honors seminar students partnered with Weavetales, a non-profit organization focused on highlighting immigrant experiences in Florida.
