DECOLONIZATION
AND POSTSTRUCTURALISM
Faculty of Philosophy
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
23rd February 2022
Online Link: meet.google.com/cef-zbrb-euw
(All times are Madrid, Spain, UTC+1)
Website: https://www.ucm.es/decolonization-and-poststructuralism/
Email: decolonization@ucm.es
Organizers: Gavin Rae and Cillian Ó Fathaigh
0930–0935: Introductory Remarks
Cillian Ó Fathaigh and Gavin Rae (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
0940–1110: 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)
1115-1245: Empirical Considerations
Repurposing the Postmodern: On the Viability of Post-structures in the Postcolonial
Divya Mehta (University of Delhi, India)
Decolonisation and Postructuralism?: A Pedagogical Case Study
Andrew Hines (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England)
African Philosophy in an African Language: Some Considerations
Francis Kolade Ajila (University of Western Cape, South Africa)
1250-1350: Éduoard Glissant
Glissant and Derrida: Deconstructing Colonial Imaginary from Within and from Without
Alenka Ambroz (École Normale Supérieure, France)
Glissant on the (de)colonization of Time
David Venutra (Royal Holloway, University of London, England)
1355–1455: 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)
1500–1600: 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)
1605–1735: Derrida
Unacknowledged Agency: Derrida’s Postcolonial Subject
Oana Panaïté (Indiana University, USA)
"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)
1740–1910: 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 Paolo, Peru)
Already Existing Decolonial Poststructuralism?
Maxwell Woods (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile)
1910–1915: Closing Remarks
Funding: This conference forms part of the activities for the following research projects: (1) “Agency and Society: An Inquiry through Poststructuralism” (PR108/20-26), funded by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid–Banco Santander; (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.