From 19 to 20 September 2019 CISRUL hosted the inter-disciplinary conference “Decolonising Political Concepts” organized by Marie Wuth and Valentin Clavé-Mercier.

The conference featured presentations by academics from the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia. The topics discussed ranged from knowledge and power to language and resistance, to agency and sexuality.

The various regional and disciplinary backgrounds made for exciting and insightful exchanges facilitated by a shared commitment to the project of decolonising the Western academic canon.

See below for photos or click here for more information on the conference.

  • Keynote – “Funk Manifesto for a Decolonised Image (With a Plea for a Decolonial International)” by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
  • Keynote – “The Universal Subject of Precarity: A Decolonial Reading” by Ritu Vij
  • Workshop: “Decolonising the Westernised University” by Julie Cupples
  • Session 2: Feeling Coloniality – Bodies, Sexuality and Agency
  • Session 3: Religion and Politics – A Colonial Dualism?
  • Session 4: Subverting Coloniality – Decolonising the Language of Resistance
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research & Innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 754326.

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