Nelson Maldonado-Torres | Fanon, Decoloniality, and the Spirit of Bandung

Nelson Maldonado-Torres is Professor in the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, member of the core faculty of the Comparative Literature Program, and faculty affiliate in the Doctoral Program in Women and Gender Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. A former president of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2008-2013), Maldonado-Torres specializes in transdisciplinary decolonial thought, race theory, and in the work of the Caribbean and African philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. He has been Director of the Center for Latino Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley (2009-2010), and Chair of the Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies at Rutgers (2012-2015). He is a board member of the Frantz Fanon Foundation in Paris, France, and honorary member of the Fausto Reinaga Foundation in La Paz, Bolivia. His publications include Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity (Duke UP, 2008), and the collection of essays La descolonización y el giro decolonial, compiled by the Universidad de la Tierra (Chiapas, Mexico) in 2011. He has guest edited two issues on “mapping the decolonial turn” for the journal Transmodernity, and is currently working on two book projects: Theorizing the Decolonial Turn, and Fanonian Meditations. He also works in a program on Black consciousness and decoloniality with the Blackhouse Kollective in South Africa.

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This public lecture is hosted by the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf), in collaboration with the Nelson Mandela University.

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The public lecture took place in the Business School Auditorium, Second Avenue Campus, on Monday, 04 March 2019.

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