Human Rights Speaker Series: Addressing the Challenges of Coloniality in the Premises of Modernity an Cosmopolitanism to Higher Education

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@ 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
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Part of the Fall 2020 IRIS NRC Human Rights Speaker Series, with Professor Jose Cossa, Pennsylvania State University.

About this Event

In this talk, Professor Cossa critiques the modernist and cosmopolitan foundations of Western higher education, which ignore coloniality and limit critical thinking. He calls for efforts to de-border, de-center, and decolonize in global universities. Register here.

 

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October 1st: Addressing the Challenge of Coloniality in the Promises of Modernity and Cosmopolitanism to Higher Education. Register here.

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