[PeDAGoG] lecture by Françoise Vergès, 6.9.2022, 7PM, tranzitsk

Mon Sep 5 21:11:36 CEST 2022

dearest friends,

I'm delighted to invite you to our first conversation, part of How to Live
Together? a series I co-curated with Judit Angel, Borbála Soós, and Ovidiu
Ţichindeleanu*,* expanding some of the themes investigated through the
exhibition* Grounding ~Seeding, *hosted in  tranzit.sk

I hope you can make it, as Francoise is not to be missed!

alessandra
06/09/2022Decolonial Europe. An antiracist, anti-capitalist and
anti-imperialist feminist approach

*Lecture by Françoise Vergès / Q & A: Ľubica Kobová and Zuzana Maďarová*

*September 6, 7 pm, tranzit.sk <http://tranzit.sk>*

The event will be held in English

In Discourse on Colonialism (published in French in 1955), anticolonial
political leader and Martinican poet Aimé Césaire wrote: *"Europe is
indefensible”* because it had justified, in the name of its
*“superior”* civilization,
genocides, massacres, slavery, colonization, extractive economy destructive
of the environment, the deportation of millions of Africans and the
dispossession and exploitation of millions of people around the world.

European’s blindness to its crimes meant that they could not understand
that *“Colonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in
the true sense of the word,”* in other words, that its ideas, regimes,
social making would be inevitably contaminated by racism. Thus, Europe
could not understand that, sooner or later, they would have to enter their
own decolonial process.

Today, the multiplication of zones of non-being, the return of
extreme-right parties in parliaments, the anti-refugee politics, the
counter-offensive against women’s and LGTBQI+ rights, the murderous racism
against Black, Roma, Muslim and indigenous communities, the government’s
deafness in face of climate disaster, the return of war on the continent,
shatters European narrative of having been protected from colonial
ideologies and universalism.

*“Decolonization is a program of total disorder,”* wrote decolonial
theorist Frantz Fanon. Revolutionary disorder (which is not chaos) is an
answer to the disorder that capitalism endlessly produces. In this
contribution, Françoise Vergès will discuss how the idea of Europe was
colonial (even on the continent itself), why the decolonization of Europe
as an antiracist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggle is urgent,
and what decolonial feminism can bring to the struggle against the
permanent war on peoples and the earth.

*Françoise Vergès* is a Franco-Reunionnese political theorist, feminist,
independent curator, public educator and decolonial activist currently
living in Paris. Her work focuses on colonial slavery as an anti-Blackness
regime, psychoanalysis, the (impossible) decolonization of the Western
museum, republican coloniality and decolonial feminism. Her latest books
are A Decolonial Feminism (2020/2021), A Feminist Theory of Violence, A
Decolonial Perspective (2021/2022) and De la violence coloniale dans
l’espace public (2021). She has directed movies on Caribbean authors Aimé
Césaire and Maryse Condé, curated exhibitions, and convened workshops with
artists of color. She is a co-founder of the non-profit Decolonize the arts
(2015-2022) and of its open university.

*Ľubica Kobová* teaches at the Department of Gender Studies of the Faculty
of Humanities of Charles University in Prague. Her research focus is on
feminist political thought and its history and feminist understanding of
work and work ethics. She is a member of the editorial board of
Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought and cooperates with Aspekt,
the Feminist Publication and Educational Project based in Bratislava.

*Zuzana Maďarová* is a researcher at the Faculty of Social and Economic
Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava, collaborator with the
feminist educational and publishing organization ASPEKT. Her research
focuses on gender aspects of political subjectivity (in history and
present), political communication, and the conservative turn in political
discourse.

The event is part of the *How to Live Together?* series of conversations
curated by Judit Angel, Alessandra Pomarico, Borbála Soós, Ovidiu
Ţichindeleanu within the *Art Connected 2022 – 2023* subprogram of
tranzit.sk.

ERSTE Foundation <http://www.erstestiftung.org/en/> is main partner of
tranzit. Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council
<http://www.fpu.sk/en/2-nazaradene/255-slovak-arts-council>.

Crédit photo: Anthony Françin, 2020

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