02/04/2025
By Nephtaly Pierre-Louis
Confronting Empire, Forging Transnational Justice: Coloniality, Genocide, and Decolonization from the Caribbean to Palestine (HYBRID)
Free and open to the public.
Prof. Nelson Maldonado-Torres
Professor of Philosophy, University of Connecticut
Thursday February 27, 2 – 3:30pm EST
Coburn 255, 850 Broadway St., Lowell, MA 01854
Please attend in person or join the livestream.
If attending in person, request visitor parking by Feb 23.
Speaker Bio: Nelson Maldonado-Torres is a professor of philosophy at the University of Connecticut, and professor extraordinarious at the University of South Africa. A former president of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2008-2013), he is senior associate of the BlackHouse Kollective-Soweto, and co-chair of the Frantz Fanon Foundation. His work focuses on ethics, social, political, and decolonial philosophy with particular attention to philosophical expressions in the Global South. Recent publications include the co-edited book Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala (2021), and book chapters such as “Combative Decoloniality and the Abolition of the Humanities: A Manifesto,” in the Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature (2025), “(De)colonization/Decolonizing Phenomenology” in The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology (2024), “Liberation Philosophy and the Search for Combative Decoloniality: A Fanonian Approach” in Liberation Struggles in Abya Yala (2024), “Palestine, the War on Decolonization, and Combative Decoloniality” in the SAGE Handbook of Decolonial Theory (forthcoming), and, with Zandi Radebe, “Combative Decoloniality and the BlackHouse Paradigm of Knowledge, Creation, and Action” in Knowing-Unknowing: African Studies at the Crossroads (2024).