Free and accessible via zoom.

This webinar features a group of panelists who work at the intersections among decolonization / liberation and existing systems: 

• Felipe Lopez, Zapotec writer, poet, and educator from San Lucas Quiaviní, Oaxaca, Mexico 

• Ian McCallum, Education Officer in the Indigenous Education Office at the Ontario Ministry of Education and member of the Munsee-Delaware First Nation, Canada 

• Jasmin Velez, Development and Communications Manager at the Kensington Corridor Trust in Philadelphia, PA, USA

In 2012, Eve Tuck and Wayne Yang contributed an article that has rippled across academic fields and applied conversations since, Decolonization is not a Metaphor. While the piece sets up and reinforces a strong binary between what is and is not decolonizing activity, Tuck and Yang have both embraced gray areas beyond binaries, such as the "critical thirding" elevated in Tuck's 2009, Suspending Damage: A Letter to Communities, or Yang's observations writing under a penname in A Third University is Possible. There he insists, "categorical thinking is not the point," and notes that being ideology-agnostic "creates possibilities in every direction." 

Each panelist will provide a brief overview of their own work before engaging in questions and conversation. Facilitated by Eric Hartman, who volunteers as a Community-based Global Learning Collaborative Co-director in addition to working as Executive Director of the Haverford College Center for Peace and Global Citizenship, they will explore the ways in which existing, pluralistic systems (can) enable peaceful, decolonizing initiatives that alter understanding, knowledge, and structures moving forward toward greater liberation and pluralistic freedoms.

Register here for this conversation.