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Dear colleagues, The Center of Study and Investigation for Global Dialogues (Barcelona, Spain) is offering a two-week summer institute (TAUGHT IN ENGLISH) open to advanced undergraduate/graduate students, post-doctoral candidates, junior faculty and professionals on decolonial thought and knowledge. DECOLONIZING KNOWLEDGE AND POWER: POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES, DECOLONIAL HORIZONS Tarragona, Spain - July 8-22, 2010 http://www.dialogoglobal.com The international Summer School, "Decolonizing Knowledge and Power: Postcolonial Studies, Decolonial Horizons" is in its second year and aims at enlarging the scope of the conversation (analysis and investigation) of the hidden agenda of modernity (that is, coloniality) in the sphere of knowledge, power and higher education. The professors invited for the 2010 Decolonizing Knowledge and Power Summer School cover different thematic fields of study, historical periods and regions of the world: Africa, Europe, the Americas, the Atlantic, the Caribbean and the US. This year's faculty include: Chela Sandoval, Salman Sayyid, Nelson Maldonado-Torres, James Cohen, Ramón Grosfoguel, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Kwame Nimako, Tiffany Ruby Patterson and Daphne V. Taylor-García. The course is offered in English. Deadline for Applications: February 1st, 2010. http://www.dialogoglobal.com/application.php Costs for the July 8-22 intensive seminars: * 1st Option: Tuition only: €1,100 * 2nd Option: Tuition + Shared Room (with 1 or 2 other participants of same sex) and Three Meals a Day (Board): €1,600 * 3rd Option: Tuition + Hotel Room Only: €1,900 Location: Tarragona, Spain (an ancient Roman beachfront city on the Mediterranean Sea about 30 minutes by train South of Barcelona) You can check the web page below for more information, and please, do send this message on to potentially interested people and networks. http://www.dialogoglobal.com You can also write to the following email address if you have any questions: decolonialknowledge@gmail.com Best regards, Ramon Grosfoguel Director Roberto Hernandez Assistant Coordinator
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