Event overview
Salman Sayyid: 1492 - The Year it All Went South
The campaign organised around the slogan “Why is My Curriculum White?” has been one of the most significant international student mobilizations in the last forty years. The campaign signals a multifaceted discontent with neoliberal iterations of the University over a range of issues, including questions of inclusivity and diversity as well as their philosophical import. Both postcolonial and decolonial studies seem equipped to re-imagine the curriculum in relation to the prospect of the post-Western. In postcolonial studies, the moment of ordinary violence for this division is often located in Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798. In decolonial studies, 1492 is year zero of the contemporary world order. The 300-year difference is not a matter of historical research but rather divergent conceptualizations of the relationship between knowledge and power in the making of the world that we inhabit today.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Feb 2019 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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