Global Modernities
Friday 13 March 2009, 17.00–21.00
Saturday 14 March 2009, 10.00–18.00
At the dawn of the twenty first century there is a growing consensus among artists, thinkers and critics that Western modernity is in the process of dissolution. Eurocentric, national, state-centered perspectives in art, culture and politics have been challenged at a fundamental level by previously marginal practices [...]
L’Academie de la Latinité/Academia da la Latinidad
L’Academie de la Latinité/Academia da la Latinidad, a project under the auspices of UNESCO and Universidad Cándido Mendes, in Rio de Janaeiro, launched an inaugural web page containing all the publications since 1999, when the Academie initiated a series of dialogue with the Islamic world around the Mediterranean and was followed up with annual encounter [...]
18Jan2009New Series From Pluto Press: Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons
Pluto Press. Independent Progressive Publishing started a new book series titled De-Colonial Studies, Post-Colonial Horizons, edited by Barnor Hesse and S. Sayyid.
This book series is concerned with exploring the political and cultural forms that decolonization now needs to take within the west/non-west, in the global context of an incomplete postcolonial era. It asks, [...]