Dr. Santiago Castro-Gómez | Javeriana University

Presented by the Glasscock Center Short-Term Visiting Fellowship

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Registration is free and open to the public.

Santiago Castro-Gómez challenges the story that equality, liberty, and fraternity, the core notions of the political revolutions of the United States and France, are of European origin. Through analysis of new historical sources, he shows that republican ideals from Rousseau to Benjamin Franklin were inspired by North American Indigenous communities. The emergence of these Enlightenment ideals was the product of an intercultural intellectual exchange between Europeans and Indigenous peoples, and in this sense, we can speak of "transmodernity."

This event commences the Critical Thought and the Global South Workshop, which continues with invited speakers and a roundtable on Friday, October 18th. The workshop is the inaugural event for the International Consortium of Thought from the Global South.

Additional sponsorship provided by the Department of Philosophy, Department of Global Languages and Cultures, College of Arts & Science, International Consortium of Thought from the Global South, and the Critical Theory Collective

Event contact: dtdeere@tamu.edu