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Can History Be Rewound?* Genealogies of Colonialism in the Permanent Collection of the Museo Reina Sofía:

Apparatus '92. Can History Be Rewound?* Genealogies of Colonialism in the Permanent Collection of the Museo Reina Sofía Many of the changes that explain today's world order took place in the nineteen nineties. With the collapse of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics (USSR) in 1989 and the disintegration of the Socialist bloc, free market economic policies became widespread, provoking the response of anti-globalis...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Decolonial Thinking and Revolutionary Events at the Centre for Postcolonial Studies of Goldsmiths, University of London. Deadline: 17th Dec 2022:

CALL FOR PAPERS: Decolonial Thinking and Revolutionary Events - Postcolonial Politics Call For Papers: Decolonial Thinking and Revolutionary Events This conference on Decolonial thinking and revolutionary events proposes to explore this axiomatic by looking at revolutionary events as decolonizing speech acts. In doing so, it seeks to better seize how revolutionary parole can help us....

Agar Ledo for Postcolonial Politics: Art for Politics: The Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale as a reflection of its international standing during the Franco dictatorship:
https://postcolonialpolitics.org/art-for-politics-the-spanish-pavilion-at-the-venice-biennale-as-a-reflection-of-its-international-standing-during-the-franco-dictatorship/

The Centre for Postcolonial Studies is hosting a public lecture by Professor A. Dirk Moses from the University of North Carolina. Prof Moses is a world-renowned scholar on the history of genocide and ethnic cleansing. The talk title is Postcolonialism and German Memory Culture and is taking place on the 14 June at 5 pm (PSHB LG01).

We hope to see you there—this promise to be an exciting event.

Centre for Postcolonial Studies

Dirk Moses - Postcolonialism and German Memory Culture The Centre for Postcolonial Studies presents a Public Lecture by Dirk Moses (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), author of The Problems of Genocide (2021)

Sundar Morning Reading: The Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale during the Franco dictatorship by

Art for Politics: The Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale as a reflection of its international standing during the Franco dictatorship - Postcolonial Politics International events sometimes highlight the connections between art and politics. Art and culture play a key role in defining and legitimating the narratives

book of the week: 's The Five Health Frontiers: A New Radical Blueprint published by

The Five Health Frontiers Covid-19 has exposed the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy. But instead of imagining radical change, the left is stuck in a rearguard action foc...

“Those Who Are Poor, Die Poor.” Notes on the Chilean Elections by Jeffery R. Webber:

“Those Who Are Poor, Die Poor”: Notes on the Chilean Elections - Postcolonial Politics Premature obituaries of Chilean neoliberalism abound on the heels of the December 19 run-off presidential election.1 Gabriel Boric, of Apruebo Dignidad

Sunday Morning Reading: Sanjay Seth on India's Farmers Victory:

A Big Victory for India’s Farmers - Postcolonial Politics On November 19, almost a year to the day when hundreds of thousands of farmers began to converge on the national capital of New Delhi in what turned out to be

Roundtable on Sanjay Seth’s t new book, Beyond Reason: Postcolonial Theory and the Social Sciences. Tuesday 15th June, 5.30 GMT,
via Zoom. Register here:

Beyond Reason: Postcolonial Theory and the Social Sciences A roundtable discussion on Sanjay Seth’s latest book, "Beyond Reason: Postcolonial Theory and the Social Sciences" (2021)

The Second Wave of COVID-19: A Report from India via Postcolonial Politics:

The Second Wave of COVID-19: A Report from India - Postcolonial Politics Thousands dead and the rest pleading for oxygen and medical care, burning funeral pyres and bodies stacked up along public streets, cremation grounds meant

Tomorrow at 6 PM GMT, Walter Mignolo in conversation with Francisco Carballo: