Department of English

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 conversations on indigenous theories as they shape thinking and writing outside the dominant epistemological frameworks of modernity/coloniality. By connecting notions such as “epistemic delinking” from the

Workshop and discussion of recent work by the keynote speakers for Decolonizing Knowledge Symposium. For reading materials, please contact Leah Rosenberg rosenber@ufl.edu

Authors Yiyun Li and Devin Johnston will read from their work at 8pm in Ustler Hall. This event is part of the annual Writers Festival. Light refreshments will be provided.