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From Autumn 2025, we are renewing the research group Decolonial Meridians (formed in Spring 2023) in combination with the ERC Consolidator Grant project led by Dr. Sanjukta Sunderason, Entangled Freedoms: Decolonial Modernisms as Transnational Relations of Resistance, 1940s-1980s, and the artistic/cultural theory component of the Research Priority Area, Decolonial Futures .

In its new iteration, Decolonial Meridians: Art and Thought from the Global South will steer research conversations and gatherings that explore artistic practices, cultural/political/historical thought, and histories from the Global South in relation – to develop in dialogue:

  • What questions of artistic practices, cultural and political theorizations, and historical thought/writing look like from the Global South, &
  • How such questions can be connected across resonant as well as widely divergent contexts within the Global South – as well as – with the Global North

Some keywords we capture as a research group (not exhaustive):

Artistic modernities I radical aesthetics I freedom/liberation/emancipation I solidarities I indigeneity I postcolonial and decolonial thought and methods

We will meet monthly in reading groups, film screenings, roundtables/panels, or writing feedback groups, or in other happy constellation! We welcome students, researchers and colleagues to join us!

For information on our meetings, see: our ASCA page (ASCA website page for DM), or on the Decolonial Futures RPA (https://decolonialfutures.uva.nl), or in ASCA newsletters.

To join the research group, please email Dr. Sanjukta Sunderason (s.sunderason@uva.nl)

To join our mailing list, please write to Lilli Thöne (l.i.m.thone@uva.nl)

https://decolonialfutures.uva.nl