WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO "DECOLONIZE" II?
On Education, Nature and Conviviality.
8th
​ ​ Annual Decolonial Summer School
27th
​ ​ of June – 13th
​ ​ of July 2017
University College Roosevelt (Middelburg, The Netherlands)
​UTRECHT UNIVERSITY CERTIFICATE (6 ECTS)
Walter Mignolo (Duke University) & Rolando Vázquez (UCR)
Jean Casimir (Haiti; State University of Haiti)
Maria Lugones (Argentina/US; State University of New York)
Gloria Wekker (The Netherlands/Suriname)
Madina Tlostanova (Russia/Sweden; Linköping University)
Fabian Barba (Ecuador; Busy Rocks)
Teresa María Díaz Nerio (Domenican Republic / The Netherlands)
Jeannette Ehlers (Denmark)
Rosalba Icaza (Mexico/ Institute of Social Studies, The Hague)
Patricia Kaersenhout (The Netherlands/Suriname)
Alanna Lockward (Dominican Republic/ Germany; Art Labour Archives)
Ovidiu Tichindeleanu (Rumania; IDEA Magazine)
THE DECOLONIAL SUMMER SCHOOL MIDDELBURG, 27​th​ JUNE – 13​th​ JULY, 2017
Register at the: U
​ trecht Summer School Website ​http://utrechtsummerschool.nl/
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The 8th
​ ​ Middelburg Decolonial Summer School, 2017, will aim at shifting the geography of sensing and knowing
to unlearn dominant forms of knowledge, and search for horizons of living in harmony (Sumak Kawsay) and
conviviality. Being aware of learning through bodily senses opens up relations to the living universe that
challenge the Western divide between “nature” and “culture”. . “Nature”, like race and sex, has been used in
Western narratives to secure the position of Man, the overrepresentation of the Human as Sylvia Wynter’
convincingly argued. The separation of the human from earth has had enormous consequences. The
environmental crisis is the most visible
The Summer School will confront the challenges to re-establish forms of relationality that make us all kin with
the living earth (Pachamama, Mother Earth, Gaia). Overcoming the challenge would mean to generate
understanding and praxis based ​ on ​relationality rather than on objectivity and ​separation. To do so, it is
necessary to ​delink from the hegemonic narrative of ‘nature’ as resource at the service of growth and
development, in order to ​relink with earth.
The decolonial tasks of delinking and relating cannot be individually achieved they need to be done ​in
conviviality. C​onviviality requires ​building communal togetherness and engaging in decolonial conversations
capable​ of changing the terms of the modern/colonial conversations (e.g., from beliefs and theories and
education to imposed common sense).
To pursue our goals, we will focus on three themes: eating, healing and learning. Intellectuals from the
humanities and social sciences as well as practicing artist will contribute to the conversation. The overall issue to
be explored will be: a) what is the rhetoric of modernity in the spheres of food, education and health that keeps
us trapped on what to eat, what to learn and how to heal; b) what is the hidden logic of coloniality; c) and what
is decolonial horizon. Decolonially we are interested in mutual understanding of how colonial wounds
(humiliations, disdain, dehumanization) are inflicted through food, health and education in order to engage in
decolonial healing for living in plenitude.
REGISTER HERE:
https://www.utrechtsummerschool.nl/courses/social-sciences/what-does-it-mean-to-decolo
nize-ii-on-education-nature-and-conviviality
This Year we have no deadline admission will be on a rolling basis until the course is full.
In cooperation with:​The Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University
Decolonial Summer School: decolonialsummerschool.wordpress.com
What Decolonials Do: https://vimeo.com/83533482
Decolonial Thank You​ http://vimeo.com/36484325
Decolonial Voice Lending - Interview with Dr. Walter Mignolo​ http://vimeo.com/35820205
If you have questions please email us at [email protected] and [email protected]