"Creolizing Knowledge: The East of some Europe, the Latinity of one America" with Manuela Boatcă
Tuesday, November 15, 2022 , 12:30 - 2 p.m.
Location: 1039 Derby Hall
Contact: CSEEES
Join the Center for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies and the Centering the Global Periphery Cluster for a graduate student luncheon with Manuela Boatcă on the topic “Creolizing Knowledge: The East of some Europe, the Latinity of one America”.
Presenter: Manuela Boatcă is professor of sociology and head of school of the Global Studies Programme at the University of Freiburg, Germany. She has a degree in English and German languages and literatures and a PhD in sociology. She was visiting professor at IUPERJ, Rio de Janeiro in 2007-2008 and professor of sociology of global inequalities at the Latin American Institute of the Freie Universität Berlin from 2012-2015. She has published widely on world-systems analysis, decolonial perspectives on global inequalities, gender and citizenship in modernity/coloniality and the geopolitics of knowledge in Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2018 she was awarded an ACLS collaborative fellowship alongside literary scholar Anca Parvulescu (Washington University in St. Louis, USA), for a comparative project on inter-imperiality in Transylvania. The resulting co-authored book, titled “Creolizing the Modern. Transylvania Across Empires,” is forthcoming in English, German and Romanian in 2022.
Dr. Boatcă will also give a talk entitled "Unequal Europes: Coloniality, Interimperiality and Otherness" at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies on Monday, November 14. More information is available here.
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