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
