“Can we live an ethical life in a world in which our well-being and sense of self is implicated on the suffering of human and non-human others and the extraction of Earth?”
Rolando Vázquez is a teacher and decolonial thinker. He is regularly invited to deliver keynotes on decoloniality at academic and cultural institutions. Vázquez is currently Associate Professor of Sociology and Cluster Chair at the University College Utrecht. Since 2010, he co-directs with Walter Mignolo the annual Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School, now hosted by the Van Abbemuseum. In 2016, under the direction of Gloria Wekker, he co-authored the report "Let’s do Diversity" of the University of Amsterdam Diversity Commission. He has been named Advisor at the Jan van Eyck Academie for 2021/2022.
Vázquez's work places the question of the possibility of an ethical life at the core of decolonial thought and advocates for the decolonial transformation of cultural and educational institutions. His most recent publication is "Vistas of Modernity: Decolonial aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary" (Mondriaan Fund 2020).
Vistas of Modernity: Decolonial aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary (Mondriaan Fund 2020)
Keynote Speech: Recalling Earth, Overcoming the Contemporary • Berlin Biennale
Keynote Speech: Transforming Institutions On Social and Climate Justice • Jan van Eyck Academie
https://www.janvaneyck.nl/videos/629915989?lang=nl
Keynote speech by Rolando Vázquez. The museum, decoloniality and the end of the contemporary at VanAbbe museum
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Opening talks for TU Delft Studium Generale: 'Decolonising knowledge: what is decolonisation?' and 'Decolonising design & engineering'.
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