Conference by Françoise Vergès at the DCN festival

From October 27 to November 9, 2018, as part of the research seminar “Thinking Decolonization” at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès in collaboration with the Festival Danses et Continents Noirs of the James Carlès Choreographic Center, the Erasmus Mundus EuroPhilosophie University Consortium and the Center for Philosophy of Law at the Catholic University of Louvain organized a major international meeting entitled “Corpus Africana: Contemporary Philosophies and Dances of Africa and its Diasporas.” This event aimed to bring the knowledge and study of “Africana philosophy” and contemporary African and Afro-descendant choreographic knowledge to the forefront of European university research in the field of arts and humanities.