Decolonial Futures

Join us this Thursday for a screening of Isaac Julien’s ‘Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask’, and a tour of The Black Archives.

📍 Screening + discussion (14:00-16:00) REC A1.07
📍 Tour of The Black Archives (17:00-18:00) Bijlmerplein 140
🔗 Info & registr.: decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...

🚨 Ahmed Memon's masterclass has been postponed to next week due to the walkout organized by UvA Staff for Palestine🍉 happening tomorrow (April 10) at 12:30! 🚨

📅 New date: 17 April 2025
🕐 Same time: 13:00-15:00
📍 New room: A2.15!
🔗 Sign up: tinyurl.com/34h3hc6t

🚨 Ahmed Memon's masterclass has been postponed to next week due to the walkout organized by UvA Staff for Palestine🍉 happening tomorrow (April 10) at 12:30! 🚨

📅 New date: 17 April 2025
🕐 Same time: 13:00-15:00
📍 New room: A2.15!
🔗 Sign up: tinyurl.com/34h3hc6t

The “Reproductive Horizons of Abolition” conference over the past 2 days was absolutely amazing. I know being in academia and working in this space can be a bit isolating, but there are so many incredible people all over the world working toward the same thing. There is so much to be hopeful for.

Join the book launch of 𝐴𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 𝑏𝑦 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛: 𝑃𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑃𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐶𝑢𝑏𝑎’𝑠 𝑂𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑆𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑑𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐴𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎, 𝐴𝑠𝑖𝑎, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐿𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛 𝐴𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎 (OSPAAAL) 16 April at Framer Framed. Co-editor Lani Hanna will engage in conversation with Sanjukta Sunderason (Associate Professor, UvA) and (1/3)

I’m co-hosting a workshop on Black death and mourning via Black family narratives @framerframed.bsky.social on April 9 (17-20:00). In discussion with @julianisenia.bsky.social, Nawal Mustafa, and Camille Sapara Barton. Please join and circulate!

Join us today at 16:00!

🚨 FUNDING AVAILABLE 🚨

Decolonial Futures opens a call for applications for seed grants up to €15.000, as wel as renewals for research teams that have received a seed grant in 2024.

📅 Applications close on March 31st, 2025.

🔗 More info: decolonialfutures.uva.nl/funding-call...

Join us for a keynote lecture by Layal Ftouni, Assist. Prof. at Utrecht University, in conversation with Hala Shoman, PhD from Newcastle University.

📅 Friday, 28 March
🕓 16:00 – 18:00
📍 Doelenzaal, University Library | Singel 425, Amsterdam
🔗 Sign up here: decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...

Join us on Thursday, March 27th for a keynote lecture by University of Houston (@uh.edu) Professor Alan J. Dettlaff (@alandettlaff.bsky.social).

📅 Thursday, 27 March
🕓 16:00 – 18:00
📍 Doelenzaal, University Library | Singel 425, Amsterdam
🔗 Sign up here: decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/even...

💡 As we close this chapter at EYE, we want to give a huge THANK YOU to all our guests and participants for their incredible insights and discussions. Stay tuned for more updates on the research project!

Schuppli left us with the question: What new ways of remembering can emerge through the study of ice memory? She urged us to consider a future of “just-ice to come” (a play on justice and ice 🤓).

Building on themes from the series (film heritage and audiovisual archives), this session explored how ice memory challenges us to think beyond human-centered perspectives. As glaciers disappear, we not only lose parts of our environment but also the memories they hold.

Schuppli’s talk highlighted the links between environmental history, film preservation, and geopolitical structures. She discussed how ice, as a chemically neutral storage medium like film, can store historical traces — including those of (neo)colonial violence, pollution, and climate catastrophe.

✨ Recap: The final session of Decolonial Futures of Audiovisual Archives and Archiving at EYE Filmmuseum!
 
🎥 To close the series, we welcomed artist-researcher Susan Schuppli, who presented her ongoing work on ice memory, and ice as both an archival and audiovisual medium.

We're proud to announce the first event in our Masterclass Series, featuring our visiting scholar @drqv.bsky.social. 🥳

The class is aimed at UvA PhDs and postdocs, building a community of visiting researchers and emerging talents in the field.

🔗More info & registration: tinyurl.com/bdd9drhb

Kevin Pham: The architects of dignity: Vietnamese visions of decolonization - Contemporary Political Theory Contemporary Political Theory -

Very honored to have received this great review of my new book:

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Call for New Seed Grants and Seed Grant Renewals from the Research Priority Area Decolonial Futures - Decolonial Futures Call for New Seed Grants and Seed Grant Renewals from the Research Priority Area Decolonial Futures

3️⃣ Ecology, sustainability & climate change (e.g., how to establish a just system of climate reparations?)

🔗Please read the full call on decolonialfutures.uva.nl/funding-call...

2️⃣ Migrations, mobility & borders (e.g., how to account for the role of colonial histories
and neocolonial exploits in motivating and directing migratory movements and border control policies?)

1️⃣ Museums, archives & cultural practices (e.g., how to deal with demands to restitute art
objects acquired through colonial exploits and with contentious monuments?)

The call is open in terms of Decolonial research themes, but we particularly encourage submissions
which substantively speak to two of the three themes of the RPA ⬇️

🚨 FUNDING AVAILABLE 🚨

Decolonial Futures opens a call for applications for seed grants up to €15.000, as wel as renewals for research teams that have received a seed grant in 2024.

📅 Applications close on March 31st, 2025.

🔗 More info: decolonialfutures.uva.nl/funding-call...

We're proud to announce the first event in our Masterclass Series, featuring our visiting scholar @drqv.bsky.social. 🥳

The class is aimed at UvA PhDs and postdocs, building a community of visiting researchers and emerging talents in the field.

🔗More info & registration: tinyurl.com/bdd9drhb

📚 We welcome you to join our accompanying reading group, held on Monday, January 27th, from 15:00-18:00 at BuzzHouse (OMHP Humanities Venture Lab).

Please email @asliozgenh.bsky.social (a.ozgen-havekotte@uva.nl) / Jamil (j.fiorinohabib@uva.nl) to access the readings and to register for the seminar.

❄️ Ecological matter like glaciers archive planetary and human histories, producing what Schuppli refers to as "ice memory".

🧠 What if we viewed human history as part of a larger process of how the Earth records time and space? What could that mean for our thinking about politics?

📽️ The fifth and final session of the Decolonial Futures of Audiovisual Archives and Archiving research project takes place on Wednesday, January 29th, from 14:00-17:00 at EYE Filmmuseum with artist-researcher Susan Schuppli. 🔗 tinyurl.com/23m3hs64

Decolonial Futures The Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area establishes collaborations on decolonial research across the Humanities, Law, and Behavioural and Social Science Faculties. The RPA understands ‘coloniali...

🙋🏾‍♀️🦋 Hi Bluesky! We're the Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area. Our 5-year initiative spans Humanities, Law, and Social Sciences, fostering collaborations on decolonial research at the University of Amsterdam.

🔗 Learn more about the RPA on our website: decolonialfutures.uva.nl