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In his seminal study of anti-colonial struggle, The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon discusses what scholars have more recently referred to as the coloniality of knowledge. References to this idea emphasize that mainstream research enterprises are not unbiased readings of objective reality or identity-neutral tools wielded by dispassionate or position-less observers.In the last lines of The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon charges concerned scholars with the task of decolonizing knowledge: that is, to illuminate forms of domination in conventional academic wisdom and to construct new concepts, based on marginalized perspectives and experiences, that provide the foundations for broad human liberation. This task of decolonizing knowledge is the organizing theme of the 2014 Fall Faculty Colloquium. All KU faculty and graduate students are welcome to attend Colloquium sessions.
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- Colloquia
- Fall Faculty Colloquium 2002: Re(searching) Life - A Contemplation of Organzing Collectively
- Fall Faculty Colloquium 2003: Collecting & Collections - Interdisciplinary Perspectives
- Fall Faculty Colloquium 2005: Capitalism and Culture
- Fall Faculty Colloquium 2006: Representing the Middle East
- Fall Faculty Colloquium 2009: Respectability
- Fall Faculty Colloquium 2011: Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective
- Fall Faculty Colloquium 2012: The City Imagined
- Laboring Americans Colloquium - 2005
- Spring Faculty Colloquium 2001: Law & Literature
- Spring Faculty Colloquium - 2008
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- Digital Media Lecture Series
- Friends of the Hall Center Exclusive Event
- Humanities Lecture Series
- Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
- New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
- Oral History Workshop
- Past Seminars
- Public Symposium
- Seminars
- Special Events
- The Commons
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