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Decolonial Theory and Latin American Liberation Theology
MF CASR invites you to a half-day seminar discussing the relationship between decolonial theory and Latin American liberation theology. The seminar is structured around a keynote presentation by anthropologist Sindre Bangstad, researcher at KIFO and key contributor to contemporary debates about racism, islamophobia and anti-colonial efforts. This is followed by responses by MFs own Sturla Stålsett and Marion Grau. We’re prioritizing time for discussion and conversation throughout the seminar, which is planned in an intimate, round-table format.
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Abstract for Bangstad’s keynote:
Tracing the genealogies of decolonial thought in Latin American liberation theology.
One of the central planks of decolonial theory, as developed by a network of Latin Americanists in the USA and Latin America in the period 1998-2008 was Latin American liberation theology, as articulated most prominently in the work of the late Argentinian-Mexican philosopher and theologian Enrique Dussel. It is for example Dussel’s 1991 Frankfurt Lectures which inspires decolonial theory’s critique of modernity, and also from Dussel that decolonial theorists adopt the concept of a “geopolitics of knowledge”, as well as the idea that the subject of decoloniality is the poor and/or indigenous.
In this seminar, I will focus on Dussel’s contribution to early decolonial theory, and the reading of Dussel in the work of the decolonial scholar that has been most concerned with developing Dussel’s ideas, namely Nelson Maldonado-Torres, as well as the decolonial critique of Dussel found in the work of the Colombian philosopher Santiago Castro-Gomez.
The seminar forms part of Bangstad’s ongoing work with the monograph The Decolonial Paradigm: A Critique (Hurst & Co., 2027).
Program:
09.00 – 09.05: Welcome – Lars Laird Iversen
09.05 – 09. 09.35: Keynote by Sindre Bangstad:
“Tracing the genealogies of decolonial thought in Latin American liberation theology.”
09.35-09.50: Q&A
09.50-10.00 Break
10.00-10.15: Comment by Sturla Stålsett
10.15-10.25: Q&A
10.25-10.40: Comment by Marion Grau
10:40-10:50: Q&A
10.50-11.00: Break
11.00-11.25: Open discussion
11.25: Final words.
We serve coffee and some light snacks. Welcome!