Committee members Divya Dwivedi and Ivana Perica will take part in the symposium on “Utopian Openings and Decolonial Futures“, organised by Natalya Bekhta (current committee member) and Mikko Joronen at Tampere University (Finland), 7 October.

This half-day symposium, within the framework of the Tampere Institute for Advanced Study, will discuss the conditions of anti-imperialist and liberatory decolonial practices today – conditions that have often been seen to enable, rather than hinder, emancipatory intellectual solidarities. Divya Dwivedi will take on the theoretical status quo in post- and decolonial theory today from an angle rarely discussed in the European context: That of the 3000-year long oppression of the majority of population in India by the Hindu minority via the caste system. In a series of responses and a conversation, following her talk, we will focus on the question of how exactly we, as scholars, can properly engage with multiplicity of politicisations and spatialisations of the decolonial? What sites of everyday violence and spatialized power relations decolonization inhabits when travelling from one site to another? Against all the promises of liberation, utopia and recovery, is there a negative work of the decolonial? How do we find in the present the language suitable for discussing a better future?

Programme:

Lecture:

Divya Dwivedi: “Provincializing Decoloniality”

Responses:

Ivana Perica (Berlin), Research Fellow, Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL)

Wassim Ghantous (Tampere), Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Regional Studies, Palestine Research Group/Space and Political Agency Research Group

Natalya Bekhta (Tampere), Academy Research Fellow, Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies

Mikko Joronen (Tampere), Associate Professor, Regional Studies, Palestine Research Group/Space and Political Agency Research Group

Further details and location HERE.