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    ABOUT THE SPEAKER

    DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY Seminar Series

    In Conversation with Walter Mignolo: The Failures of


    Neoliberalism and the Roads to the Future
    DATE: 4 APRIL 2012, WEDNESDAY
    VENUE: AS7 AUDITORIUM, BLOCK AS7, #01-02

    TIME: 3.00 PM
    CHAIR: PROFESSOR CHUA BENG HUAT

    SPEAKER: PROFESSOR WALTER D. MIGNOLO


    William H. Wannamaker Distinguished Professor and
    Director, Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, Duke University
    ABSTRACT
    The failure of neo-liberalism as the last attempt of the modern/colonial world order and
    global designs, to homogenize the globe precipitated what was unavoidable after 250
    years of Western Civilization building and 250 of hegemony. Western Civilization is the
    youngest of all civilizations on the planet. Its foundation started with the Renaissance
    and found itself at the pick in the second half of the eighteenth century. An emerging
    ethno-class took over in a series of revolutions (Glorious Revolution, American
    Revolution, French Revolution) and above all, the Industrial Revolution.

    Walter D. Mignolo is William H.


    Wannamaker Distinguished Professor
    and Director of the Center for Global
    Studies and the Humanities at Duke
    University. He is also Visiting Fellow at
    the Advanced Institute for Cross
    Disciplinary Studies, City University of
    Hong Kong (January-June 2012). Among
    his major works are The Darker Side of
    The Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality
    and Colonization (1995), which received
    the Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize from
    the Modern Languages Association of
    America in 1996, and Local
    histories/Global Designs: Coloniality,
    Subaltern Knowledge and Border
    Thinking (2000). The Idea of Latin
    America (2005) received the Frantz
    Fanon Award from the Caribbean
    Philosophical Association in 2006. The
    Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global
    Futures, Decolonial Options was just
    released in December of 2011.

    The world before 1500 (that is, before Western Civilization) was polycentric and noncapitalist. Western imperial expansion created the conditions for a polycentric and
    capitalist world order which is the one we are already living in. One of the big questions
    we can ask ourselves is: what are the roads to the future. I see three major global
    designs in the making: re-westernization, which is the project of Barack Obama since his
    first day as President (c.f.: his discourse in Cairo and the recent declaration of the 21st
    Century as the American Pacific Century); dewesternization, a tendency with two
    trajectories: the secular politico-economic dewesternization lead by East Asian states
    and intellectuals and now being joined by African and Latin American countries; and the
    politico-religious dewesternization that we can find in countries with a predominant
    Muslim population from Iran to Malaysia and Indonesia; and decoloniality, a tendency
    that was announced by Sukarno in the Bandung Conference, that unfolded in Africa,
    South America and the Caribbean and that, today, it is the project of the political society
    rather than States or Institutionalized Religions that more often than not tend to prevent
    the unfolding of the political society. Neither to say, none of this tendencies are
    homogeneous and fixed in one place. But they can be clearly distinguished as three
    main designs of the roads to the future.
    For queries, please e-mail the seminar convenor Dr. Daniel Goh: [email protected].

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