FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2007
Translocalities/Transmodernities: Thinkspace
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Polycentric Session, UC-Berkeley, Townsend
Center for the Humanities
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Nelson Maldonado-Torres (2003) earned his B.A. in Philosophy from the
University of Puerto Rico in 1994, and his Ph.D. (2002) in Religious
Studies from Brown University. He specializes in phenomenology, critical
theory, postcolonial studies, and modern religious thought. He is interested
in theories of decolonization as they emerge in different contexts and
from different subjective positions in the Americas. Dr. Maldonado has
done a considerable amount of work on Africana, Jewish, and Latin American
intellectual productions. He is currently working on a theory of epistemic
and material decolonization based on Fanon's work and on the theoretical
production of U.S. feminists of color. This work encompasses reflections
on religion, philosophical anthropology, social and cultural formations
in the Americas, and the role of critical intellectual activity in the
context of global coloniality. Dr. Maldonado's publications include,
among others, "La antropología filosófica de Emmanuel
Lévinas" [Emmanuel Levinas's Philosophical Anthropology],
Intersticios (Mexico) 5.10 (1999); "The Cry of the Self as a Call
from the Other: The Paradoxical Loving Subjectivity of Frantz Fanon,"
Listening: Journal of Religion and Culture (Winter 2001); and "Postimperial
Reflections on Crisis, Knowledge, and Utopia: Transgresstopic Critical
Hermeneutics and the 'Death of European Man.'" Review 25.3 (2002).
His forthcoming book, Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity
(Duke UP), will appear in the spring 2008.