Avenali Lectures

Walter D. Mignolo, Avenali Chair in the Humanities 2006-2007

“Globalization and De-colonial Thinking” || October 17, 2006
with a panel discussion on October 18, 2006

Text and Response || Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Cultural Anthropology and Spanish at Duke University. Professor Mignolo’s current research focuses on global coloniality and the history of capitalism. His most recent books on the subject are The Idea of Latin America (Blackwell Press, 2005) and Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (Princeton University Press, 2000). His previous book, The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1995), was awarded the Katherine Singers Kovac Prize by the Modern Language Association.

Mignolo is founder and co-editor of the journal Disposition (University of Michigan) and co-founder and co-editor of Nepantla: Views from South, a journal published by Duke University Press. He has been published in Comparative Studies in Society and History, L’Homme, Colonial Latin American Review, South Atlantic Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, Hispanic Issues, Poetics Today, Public Culture, Latin American Cultural Studies, et al.

Panel Discussants: Mignolo, Pheng Cheah (Department of Rhetoric), Gillian Hart (Department of Geography), and José Davíd Saldívar (departments of Ethnic Studies and English); moderated by Anthony J. Cascardi (departments of Comparative Literature, Rhetoric, and Spanish and Portuguese, and Director of the Townsend Center).