INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Decolonization and Poststructuralism
Faculty of Philosophy
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
23rd February 2022
Online Link: meet.google.com/cef-zbrb-euw
(All times Madrid, Spain; UTC+1)
0930–0935: Introductory Remarks
Cillian Ó Fathaigh and Gavin Rae (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
0935–1105: Apertures
Decolonizing the Syllabus: The Name and End of Deconstruction
Cillian Ó Fathaigh (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
Ethics, Agency and Deconstructing Subjectivity in Indian Buddhist Philosophy: Rethinking Poststructuralism from an Intercultural-philosophical Perspective
Alina Therese Lettner (University of Kassel, Germany)
Decolonizing Eurocentric Affect: Subaltern Affect at the Limit of Species Alterity
Sourav Kargupta (Independent Scholar, India)
1110-1210: Space and Structure
Repurposing the Postmodern: On the Viability of Post-structures in the Postcolonial
Divya Mehta (University of Delhi, India)
1215-1315: Éduoard Glissant
Glissant and Derrida: Deconstructing Colonial Imaginary from Within and from Without
Alenka Ambroz (University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia)
Glissant on the (de)colonization of Time
David Ventura (Royal Holloway, University of London, England)
1320–1420: Deleuze
Knowledge Production and Intellectual Instruction in Colonial Quito: An Imbricated Rhizomatic Network
Marco Ambrosi De la Cadena (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Italy)
Anthropophagy and Deleuze and Guattari through the eyes of Suely Rolnik
Mauricio Baez (Independent Scholar, Colombia)
1425–1525: Ethics
Can Poststructuralism Critique itself? Developing Foucauldian Ethics to Supersede the Eurocentrism of Biopolitics
Peter Marshall (University of Kent, England)
Keeping Impurity Impure: Ethical Responses to Epistemic Impasses
Ruben Hordijk (Linköping University, Sweden)
1530–1630: Derrida
"The Crisis of the Crisis": Deconstruction and Decolonization
Carmen de Schryver (Northwestern University/Sarah Lawrence College, USA)
The Uninvited Guest: Hospitality, Responsibility, and Possibility
Becky Vartabedian (Regis University, USA)
1635–1805: Moving Forward
“The Ripple and the Two-Tide Movement”: The Metaphorical Language of Contingent Foundations
Eve Judah (École Normale Supérieure, France)
If decolonization is not a metaphor, what is it then?
Juan Felipe Miranda Medina (Universidad Católica San Pablo, Peru)
Already Existing Decolonial Poststructuralism?
Maxwell Woods (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)
1805–1810: Closing Remarks
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Funding: This conference forms part of the activities for the research projects: (1) “Agency and Society: An Inquiry through Poststructuralism” (PR108/20-26); (2) “Differential Ontology and the Politics of Reason,” funded by the Government of the Region of Madrid, as part of line 3 of the multi-year agreement with the Universidad Complutense de Madrid: V PRICIT Excellence Program for University Professors (Fifth Regional Plan for Scientific Investigation and Technological Innovation); and (3) “The Politics of Reason” (PID2020-117386GA-I00), financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Government of Spain.