Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism is a two-day, interdisciplinary conference on the topic of critical feminist approaches to the coloniality of gender that will be held at the University of Oregon on May 12th-13th, 2023.
The goal of this conference is to facilitate conversations regarding the history of colonialism and its afterlives between decolonial, postcolonial, anti-colonial, and indigenous scholarship that will support liberatory initiatives to reimagine and build pathways for decolonization and networks of solidarity across different geopolitical spaces.
The two keynote speakers for our conference will be professor Breny Mendoza (California State University) and professor Layla Brown (Northeastern University). Professor Mendoza's research is focused in the areas of feminist decolonial theory, political theory, transnational feminism, and Latin American Studies. The title of her keynote talk is "Decolonial Reading of Sexual Violence". Professor Brown’s research focuses on Pan-African, Socialist, and Feminist social movements in Venezuela, the US, and the broader African Diaspora (talk title TBD). Additonally, our conference will also include a workshop led by La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción (a grassroot activist group from Puerto Rico).
This conference is sponsored by UO College of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Association, Oregon Humanities Center, Williams Foundation Grant, Cintia Martínez Velasco’s Research Funds, Division of Graduate Studies , Center for the Study of Women in Society, School of Global Studies and Languages, Philosophy Department , Romance Languages Department, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of Geography, and Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies Department.