Published: Jan. 2, 2020

In its simplest form, a border is a barrier; a way of letting some things in and keeping others out.听

If you go:

  • Who: All keynotes and the workshop 鈥淥n the Decolonial Hows: Interrogating and Making (Our) Praxis鈥� are free and open to the public. Other events require registration.
  • What: Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms: The Challenge of Social Imaginaries in Media, Art, Religion and Decoloniality.
  • When: Jan. 7 through 11
  • Where: Williams Village Center

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While we often think of borders in a physical sense鈥撯�揳 line on a map, a concrete wall or a series of checkpoints鈥撯�搕here are also intangible borders that shape the ways we think, learn and teach.听

This month, scholars will gather on CU Boulder鈥檚 campus for the Center for Media, Religion and Culture鈥檚 ninth international conference, Imagined Borders, Epistemic Freedoms: The Challenge of Social Imaginaries in Media, Art, Religion and Decoloniality. The conference will be held from Jan. 7 through 11, with several events that are free and open to the public.

鈥淭his is about trying to challenge people to think about other ways of seeing the world,鈥� says Nabil Echchaibi, the center鈥檚 associate director.

Colonization and dispossession have weakened, misplaced, and destroyed the cultural and intellectual heritage of many people, Echchaibi says. Through this process, many cultures have lost their voices鈥撯�搊r their voices have gone unnoticed.听

鈥淔or this conference we want to invest in cultures, histories and civilizations鈥撯�揼roups who have been speaking for quite some time but people have not been paying attention, and modes of knowing that have been silenced,鈥� he says.

Free and public events will include:

  • Keynote: 鈥淐olonial Diffractions in Illiberal Times,鈥� Ann Laura Stoler

    • 鈥�9 to 10:30 a.m., Wednesday, Jan. 8听

  • Keynote: 鈥淭he Decolonial Everyday: Reflections on Indigenous Education and Land-Centered Praxis,鈥� Leanne Betasamo-Sake Simpson

    • 10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 9

  • Workshop: 鈥淥n the Decolonial Hows: Interrogating and Making (Our) Praxis,鈥� Catherine Walsh

    • 9 to 10:30 a.m., Friday, Jan. 10

  • Keynote: 鈥淥nce Were Maoists: Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism,鈥� Glen Coulthard

    • 2 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 11

Registration for the full conference鈥撯�搃ncluding daily lunch and refreshments鈥撯�搃s $250 for baby直播app and $150 for non-OECD county residents and students, with a $50 day rate available as well.听Visit the conference website to learn more and register.

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