Global Humanities Series continues with April 8 talk

 The York College Global Humanities Lecture Series will present a talk titled “Postcolonialism, Latin America, and the Humanities” at 7 p.m., April 8, in the Collegiate Performing Arts Center. The event is open to the public free of charge.

Professor Walter D. Mignolo, the William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Romance Studies and professor of cultural anthropology at Duke University, will present. Described as “one of America’s most eminent postcolonialists,” Mignolo received his Licenciatura in Philosophy and Literature from the Universidad de Córdoba in Argentina and a doctorate in semiotics and literary theory from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in France. He is academic director and co-founder of Duke in the Andes/Duke en la America Andina program and director of the Duke University Center for Global Studies and the Humanities. Prior to his appointment at Duke, Mignolo had taught at the universities of Toulouse, Indiana, and Michigan.

Mignolo has written dozens of books on a wide range of topics and has published hundreds of articles in books and journals. His earlier publications focused on semiotics, literary analysis, and literary theory. His recent publications focus on Latin American identity, coloniality, de-coloniality, modernism and post-modernism, globalization, and border studies. Mignolo’s more recent books include, “The Idea of Latin America,” which received the Frantz Fanon Prize from the Caribbean Philosophical Association; “Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges and Border Thinking;” and “The Darker Side of the Renaissance: Literacy, Territoriality and Colonization,” which was awarded the Katherine Singers Kovac Prize by the Modern Language Association. Mignolo has presented numerous papers at conferences in North America, Latin America, and Europe.