Open Class Presentation (as part of the course Introduction to Latin Philosophy):

“From the History of Ideas to the Localized Genealogy of Practices: An Interview and Discussion with Santiago Castro-Gómez.”

Santiago Castro-Gómez studied philosophy at the Universidad Santo Tomás in Bogotá, holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Tübingen (Germany), and a doctorate with honors from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt. For 25 years he was professor of political and social philosophy at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and researcher at the Instituto Pensar. Together with Aníbal Quijano, Enrique Dussel, Walter Mignolo, Ramón Grosfoguel, Arturo Escobar and Catherine Walsh, he was a founding member of the Modernity/Coloniality Group.