Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory

The Decolonial Philosophies Collaboratory is a transdisciplinary research group at the University of Oregon (UO). We began in the Summer of 2020. Our group is devoted to the study and struggle of decolonial, postcolonial, anti-colonial, anti-imperial, feminist, and Indigenous scholarship and movements. Our aim is to facilitate conversations between these fields that will help us to reimagine pathways for decolonization and liberation across different geopolitical spaces. 

 

As a research group, our space has been a generative platform for UO graduate students and professors to share ongoing work and research, provide mentorship and feedback opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students, and engage in work with local and international groups and organizations to advance critical discussions on decoloniality, transnational feminism, the environment, and global justice. For example, in the Spring of 2023, our group organized an international conference, Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism, where we engaged with varied analyses on decolonial, postcolonial, and anti-colonial feminist themes on issues such as gender, sexuality, class, caste, race, ethnicity, and anti-blackness.

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Our work has been enthusiastically sponsored and mentored by the Oregon Humanities Center, the UO Center for the Study of Women and Society, the UO Department of Philosophy, the UO Global Justice Program, the Oregon State University Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, the Schnitzer School of Global Studies & Languages, and the UO Radical Organizing Activist Resource Center.