Prof. Hans Schelkshorn and the Institute for Intercultural Philosophy of Religion invite you to a research talk with Prof. Dr. Eduardo Mendieta (Penn State University, USA).

After a welcome by Prof. Schelkshorn, two lectures on "The Dialectics of Coloniality/Modernity: Rewriting a Classic" and "Poverty and Latin American Philosophy" will follow, each with discussion opportunities (English/German).

Eduardo Mendieta is Professor of Philosophy and Latina/o Studies at Penn State University (USA); his research focuses primarily on Latin American philosophy, critical theory, and Frankfurt discourse theory. Eduardo Mendieta is one of the leading thinkers of de-colonial thought; in 2017 he received the Frantz Fanon Outstanding Achievement Award.

For more information on Prof. Mendieta and the lecture topics, please see the invitation and the website of the Institute for the Intercultural Philosophy of Religion.

Registration requested to agnes.leyrer@univie.ac.at by Wednesday 5/3/2023.