LATIN AMERICAN MARXISM AND COLONIALITY OF POWER: FROM DEPENDENCIA TO COLONIALIDAD AND BACK AGAIN

May 7 and 8 of 2026 in Homewood (exact location tbd). 
 
The conference takes place during a renaissance of anticolonialism and development as areas of inquiry in political theory, which makes for an auspicious time to reassess the Latin American Marxist dependency tradition of anticolonialism and development critique. We propose to undertake this assessment in dialogue with a tradition that gained more visibility after the demise of Marxism in the 1980s: The Modernity/Coloniality School.
 
The conference will feature political theorists and philosophers addressing either or both traditions (and/or the longer Latin American Marxist tradition that precedes the dependency school) and provide critical assessments of their intellectual contributions within Latin American political thought, the political theory of anticolonialism, and global thought.
 
The conference is co-sponsored by International Studies, LACLxS, the Agora Institute, KSAS, and the Chloe Center. For more information, see below and the attached flyer 
 
REGISTER by April 30th, 2026, using this link: https://jh.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1GOedeHrZRZ9yCO or by scanning the QR code in the flyer. Registered participants will be notified of the confirmed location for the conference and receive the papers to pre-read.