Mining for Justice: Nation Building and the Emergence of an Intellectual Tradition

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Please join us for a lunchtime talk with Aurora Vergara-Figueroa, WSIP/Mellon Visiting Fellow. Aurora Vergara-Figueroa is a distinguished Afro-Colombian scholar and public intellectual whose work bridges higher education, public policy, and critical studies on race, gender, class, and land dispossession. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University as a fellow of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. She also made history as Colombia's first Afro-Colombian Minister and Deputy Minister of National Education. Vergara-Figueroa holds a PhD in Sociology from UMass Amherst and previously served as director of the Center for Afrodiasporic Studies (CEAF) and professor at Icesi University (2012-2022). Her talk will be titled "Mining for Justice: Nation Building and the Emergence of an Intellectual Tradition."

The talk will be held from 1-2:30 pm in South College E370. Please RSVP here by 10/3; lunch will be served.

Presented by the World Studies Interdisciplinary Project Graduate Certificate in Decolonial Global Studies.