ALICE Colloquium_Panel I: [7] Nelson Maldonado Torres
Channel: ALICE CES
Date: 19/09/2014

Nelson Maldonado-Torres is Chair of the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies and core member of the Comparative Literature Program at Rutgers University-New Jersey.  He is also Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science, College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa, and member of the Executive Board of the Frantz Fanon Foundation.  Maldonado-Torres served as President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association for five years (2008-2013).  He is also Honorary Member of the Fausto Reinaga Foundation in Bolivia. His research interests focus on decolonial theories, with special incidence on issues of race, ethnicity, phenomenology, and social and political philosophy. Maldonado-Torres is particularly interested in the intersection of different genealogies of thought and its manifestations in different genres of writing, the discourses, artistic expression and social movements.  He is currently developing a project entitled “Fanoniam Meditations” which contributes to spell out the epistemological basis of “ethnic studies” and related areas, as well as to examine the relevance of decolonization to the epistemological, ethical and political levels, continuing the discussions on decolonial ethics and epistemology presented in his earlier book: Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity (2008).