Conference: “Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism”

The Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory, an interdisciplinary Research Interest Group (RIG) at the University of Oregon, will present a conference “Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism” on May 12 and 13, 2023 in the Knight Library Browsing Room. Participants will explore critical feminist approaches to the coloniality of gender. The conference is cosponsored by the OHC’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities. 

Keynotes will be presented by Breny Mendoza, professor and chair of Gender and Women’s Studies at California State University, Northridge, speaking on “Decolonial Reading of Sexual Violence”; and Layla Brown, assistant professor of Cultural Anthropology and Africana Studies and affiliate faculty in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University. 

In addition, the conference will feature a workshop led by La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción, an anti-colonial Black feminist organization based in Puerto Rico. 

The conference will underscore the importance of broadening the definition of decolonial thought within philosophy and other disciplines such as (but not limited to) art, anthropology, sociology, geography, political economy, and literary studies.  

The Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory RIG is currently sponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center’s RIG program. For more information go to: decolonialphilosophies.blogspot.com

 

List of sponsors (listed by the order of sponsorship amount, starting from the main sponsors) 

UO College of Arts and Sciences 

American Philosophical Association 

Oregon Humanities Center 

Williams Foundation Grant 

Cintia Martínez Velasco’s Research Funds 

Division of Graduate Studies  

Center for the Study of Women in Society 

Global Studies Department 

Philosophy Department  

Romance Languages Department 

Center for Asian and Pacific Studies 

Department of Geography  

Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies Department