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“Decolonial Perspectives on the Becoming of our Present” A Philosophy Conference

October 25, 2024
9:30 am - 4:30 pm

16 Pacific Hall, 1025 University St., Eugene, OR 97403

9:30–11:50 a.m.
123 Global Scholars Hall

Alejandro Vallega and Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez (University of Oregon), Bienvenida

Julián Ríos Acuña (Grinnell College), States of Counterinsurgency and Necropolitical Governmentality: Theorizing Paramilitarism in Colombia

Paula Landerreche Cardillo (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), Blood and roots: Citizenship as a racist-heteropatriarchal colonial institution

Selin Islekel (Texas A&M), Decolonizing Damiens: Coloniality and Government by Terror

Linda Martín Alcoff (Hunter College, City University of New York)

2–4:30 p.m.
166 Lawrence Hall

María del Rosario Acosta López (University of California, Riverside), The Acoustics of Violence

Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez (University of Oregon), Sedimentations of Silence as Aesthetic Refusal

Don Deere (Texas A&M), Archipelagos of Resistance

Eduardo Mendieta (Penn State)