Avatars Of “Interculturality”

She was born in Argentina and has also lived in Venezuela, Northern Ireland, the United States and Brazil. She obtained the degrees of Master of Arts (1978) and Ph.D. (1984) in the Department of Social Anthropology of the Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. She is Professor Emeritus at the University of Brasilia, where she was a professor in the Department of Anthropology from 1985 to 2010 and in the Graduate Programs in Bioethics and Human Rights from 2011 to 2017. Researcher at the highest level of the National Council of Scientific Research of Brazil. Currently teaches the CLACSO Virtual Seminar “Race, gender and rights from the perspective of coloniality” and is a member of the Coordination of the Specialization Course in Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies of CLACSO. In 2018 she received the Latin American and Caribbean Social Sciences Award CLACSO 50 years. That same year the Universidad Nacional de Salta, Autónoma de Entre Ríos and Provincial de Córdoba awarded her an honorary doctorate, the legislature of the City of Buenos Aires named her an Outstanding Personality of Culture and the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid founded the Aníbal Quijano Chair and appointed her as its titular. In 2019, the National University of San Martín-UNSAM, Argentina, created the Rita Segato Chair of Uncomfortable Thinking, under her tenure. Author of several works, including “Las Estructuras Elementales de la Violencia” (Prometeo, 2003 and 2013); “La Nación y sus Otros” (Prometeo, 2007); “La escritura en el cuerpo de las mujeres asesinadas en Ciudad Juárez” (Universidad del Convento de Sor Juana, 2006, and Buenos Aires: Tinta Limón, 2013); “La Crítica de la Colonialidad en Ocho Ensayos y una Antropología por demanda (Prometeo, 2015); “La Guerra contra las Mujeres (Traficantes de Sueños, 2016 and Prometeo, 2018) and “Contra-pedagogías de la Crueldad” (Prometeo, 2018).

PhD in Education, UNTREF/UNLA. Bachelor’s degree in psychology, UBA, Honors Diploma UBA. Category III Professor Incentive Program. Coordinator of the book “El Hedor de América: Reflexiones interdisciplinaria a 50 años de la América Profunda de Rodolfo Kusch” -EDUNTREF-CCC, 2013, of “Pensar América: pensadores latinoamericanos en diálogo” – 2015 and “Arte, estética, literatura y teatro en Rodolfo Kusch” – 2016. Author of Introduction to the Analysis of Public Policies UNTREF VIRTUAL, 2002 and of Situational Analysis of Organizations, EDUNTREF 2009. Author of “Políticas culturales públicas, culturales locales y diversidad cultural” - EDUNTREF 2014 and the Dossier on the Thought of Rodolfo Kusch of the Notebook of Cultural Policies: Cultural Indicators 2014 - EDUNTREF. Author of the book “La educación negada: aportes desde un pensamiento americano” – Prometeo 2019. Coordinator of the American Thought Program, of the Rodolfo Kusch Thought Conference 2012-2017, of the 1º and 2º Congreso Internacional Interdisciplinar de Pensamiento Crítico, de las Jornadas Pensar América 2013/2014 and of the Pensar en Movimiento Educational Platform (http://untref.edu.ar/pensarenmovimiento/

Walter D. Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies in Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of Literature and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. He is associated researcher at Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, since 2002 and an Honorary Research Associate for CISA (Center for Indian Studies in South Africa), Wits University at Johannesburg. He is a Senior Advisor of DOC (Dialogue of Civilizations) Research Institute, based in Berlin and received a Doctor Honoris Causa Degree from the National University of Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016) and an Honoris Causa Degree from the University of London, Goldsmith (2018). Among his books related to the topic are: The Darker Side of the Renaissance.Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization (1995, Chinese (2015) and Spanish (2016) translations); Delinking: The Rhetoric of Modernity, the Logic of Coloniality and the Grammar of Decoloniality, 2007), translated into German, French, Swedish, Romanian and Spanish. Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking (2000, translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Korean); and The Idea of Latin America, 2006, translated into Spanish, Korean and Italian. The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options 2011 translated into Korean. With Madina V. Tlostanova, Learning to Unlearn: Decolonial Reflections from Eurasia and the Americas, (2012); with Pedro Pablo Gómez, Estéticas y Opción Decolonial (2012). With Catherine Walsh, On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analysis, Praxis, co-authored with Catherine Walsh, 2018; Decolonial Investigations. Epistemic Reconstitution and the Politics of Eurocentric Knowing, 2021).