THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS PUBLICS: NORTH, SOUTH, AND IN BETWEEN
Critical Epistemology, Knowing
through
Gender
and the
Decolonial
Hacer Escuela/
Inventing School: Rethinking the Pedagogy of Critical Theory
Decolonizing Critical Theory
Technologies of Critique: New Sources for Critical Theory
After Foucault: Gender and Biopolitics in the Americas
Aesthetics and the Critique of Political Theology
Critical
theory
in the
Global
South
Collaborators: Anna Parkinson (Northwestern)
Sarah Nuttall (Witwatersrand)
Candice Jansen (Witwatersrand)
The project researched relationships of international discourses on trauma to specific national contexts.
THE UNIVERSITY AND ITS PUBLICS: NORTH, SOUTH, AND IN BETWEEN
Collaborators: Marisa Belausteguigoitia (UNAM)
Andrew Parker (Rutgers)
Graduate students
(Northwestern, Fordham, Rutgers, UNAM)
The project emphasized students' participation at the
borders of academia and the public realm.
Critical Epistemology, Knowing
through
Gender
and the
Decolonial
Collaborators: José Medina (Northwestern)
Cintia Martínez Velasco (UNAM)
Taylor Rogers (Northwestern)
The project focused on Latin-American and Latinx feminisms and gender theories developed in the Global South while highlighting the decolonial approaches these theories provide.
Collaborators: Evan Mwangi (Northwestern)
Tina Steiner (Stellenbosch)
Serah Namulisa Kasembeli (Stellenbosch)
The project centered on the publication of the English translation of Davidson Don Tengu Jabavu’s isiXhosa travelogue to India and on co-editing a special issue of the journal Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies.
Hacer Escuela/
Inventing School: Rethinking the Pedagogy of Critical Theory
Collaborators: Samir Haddad (Fordham)
Ariana González Stokas (Consultant)
Jason Wozniak (West Chester)
Lapes (public platform for Latin
American education philosophies and
educational practices)
The project focused on Latin American thinkers who develop philosophies of education.
Decolonizing Critical Theory
Collaborators: Carmen DeSchryver (Northwestern)
Andrés Mendieta (Northwestern) Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern) Alejandra Uslenghi (Northwestern)
The project was designed as a conceptual and formal scaffolding for the different subprojects of Critical Theory in the Global South.
Technologies of Critique: New Sources for Critical Theory
Collaborators: Paul North (Yale)
Willy Thayer (UMCE)
Matías Sánchez (UMCE)
Vanessa Gubbins (Yale)
The project expands the topics and problems at the center of critical theory in Chile.
After Foucault: Gender and Biopolitics in the Americas
Collaborators: Daniel Link (Universidad Tres de Febrero, Argentina)
Alejandra Uslenghi (Northwestern) Penelope Deutscher (Northwestern) Andrés Mendieta (Northwestern)
The project highlighted instantiations of biopolitical formations of gender, sexuality, and reproduction as they become forces of necro- and thanatopolitics.
Aesthetics and the Critique of Political Theology
Collaborators: Peter Fenves (Northwestern)
Eduardo Sabrovsky (Universidad
Diego Portales)
Rodrigo Farías Rivas (Pontificia
Universidad Católica de Chile)
The project examines works of art and modes of aesthetic reflection as vehicles for critique of political theology.
Circulating Anarchisms and Marxisms in the Andes
Collaborators: Víctor Vich (Pontificia Universidad
Católica del Perú)
Jorge Coronado (Northwestern)
Sheyla Liliana Huyhua Muñoz
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del
Perú)
The project examines the emergence of critical theory in the Andes region in the period of 1890-1950.
APPROPRIATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Collaborators: Huey Copeland (UPENN)
Sampada Aranke (SAIC)
Athi Mongezeleli Joja (Witwatersrand)
The project has focused on comparative approaches to theories of cultural appropriation, with a particular emphasis on the global circulation of black bodies, discourses, and art forms from an Afro-pessimist perspective.