{"id":411,"date":"2021-10-09T21:16:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T01:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ddsc\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=411"},"modified":"2026-03-13T13:16:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:16:43","slug":"decolonization-rethinking-the-coloniality-of-power-knowledge-and-being","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ddsc\/event\/decolonization-rethinking-the-coloniality-of-power-knowledge-and-being\/","title":{"rendered":"Decolonization: Rethinking the coloniality of power, knowledge and being &#8211; University of Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<div>\n<p>The Courageous Conversations Speaker Series hosted by the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion presents:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Decolonization: Rethinking the coloniality of power, knowledge and being.<\/strong>&nbsp;This second event in the&nbsp;<em>Decolonization and Questions of Justice in the University<\/em>&nbsp;series features&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Ndlovu-Gatsheni<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Dr. Altamirano-Jim\u00e9nez<\/strong>&nbsp;who will explore theories and practices of decolonization, knowledge production in the contemporary university, and the rhetorics of liberation and freedom across time and space.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with the contemporary politics of knowledge, Dr. Ndlovu-Gatsheni\u2019s examines several interrelated themes: the need for a critical reflection on the grammars of liberation; decolonial \u201cturns\u201d in a long struggle for liberation; the African experience with decolonization of knowledge; and, finally, conclude with a focus on the resurgent and insurgent decolonization of the 21st century. In examining decolonization beyond the English-speaking world, Dr. Altamirano-Jim\u00e9nez explores knowledge production, thinking feeling and interculturality; decoloniality and its discontents; decolonization in relation to land, body and Indigenous freedom; and, finally, conclude with a discussion of thinking-feeling-doing Indigenous futures.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, October 21<br>\n12:00 p.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m. (MDT) <span class=\"lw_user_time\">(<span class=\"lw_start_time\">21:00<\/span>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<span class=\"lw_end_time\">22:30<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"lw_cal_tz_abbrv tz_editable\">AST<\/span>)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Registration Link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/events.ucalgary.ca\/oedi\/?fbclid=IwAR1Zjq_avQAcHy28-lDCfRcchaSU3dJp09jL_L7OCP2eI-8PZ1DXRDLGxoA#!view\/event\/event_id\/389563\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[24],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-411","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-events"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2021-10-21T12:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2021-10-21T13:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":false,"cu_event_meeting_room":"","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ddsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ddsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ddsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ddsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ddsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ddsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/411\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ddsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ddsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/ddsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}