CEDLA Lecture | Making the pluriverse: A cross-Atlantic colonial history

Amsterdam: 06 March 2026 15:30-17:00. Speaker: Nino Vallen, Radboud University. ​In the past two decades, Latin American academics and activists have adopted the concept of the pluriverse to challenge colonialism and capitalism, and advocate instead for the recognition of ontologies shaped by relational visions of life. Some of the questions raised by this pluriversal project are not exactly new. Already during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, people on both sides of the Atlantic wer...