CPIC is a center emerging from and linked with the interdisciplinary graduate program in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture (PIC). The center focuses on individual and collaborative scholarly and research projects built around the participation of faculty and advanced graduate students at Binghamton University and throughout the United States, and internationally, building upon the visibility and reputation of the PIC program. The center is linked with PIC as its collaborative research and scholarly component.

CPIC recognizes the contemporary richness and extent of attempts to decolonize subalternized knowledges at the tense intersection of multiple oppressions. These attempts emphasize recoveries of memory; histories of translations, in a wide sense in which "translation" includes translating epistemologies; encounters between oral and written expressions; narrative, poetic and other artistic experiments at the intersection of pluralities of histories; ecological practices; knowledges and ways of thinking from various traditions. CPIC also recognizes the need for spaces where these attempts can enter into connections, reroutings, and pluralizations of memory beyond disciplinary reductions, and strives to become one such space. Its mission is to provide institutional support and resources for such ongoing transdisciplinary research projects.

CPIC participates in the dialogue between anti-Eurocentered/anti-Eurocentric, counter-hegemonic, feminist, or multiculturalist projects and Eurocentered and other masculinist discourses. This dialogue includes knowledge production within its focus. This dialogue has never been straightforward and has been structured unequally in terms of power. CPIC is also attentive to internal critiques of modernity--including Marxisms and postmodernisms-- that are mindful of the possible connections with these attempts at decolonization.

CPIC supports emergent forms of thinking critical of attachments to disciplinary principles, of ways of thinking splitting the knowing subject and the object known, of ways of knowing that suppress the inter-subjective dimension in the production of knowledge, of forms of discourse that uphold linguistic purity. The center seeks not only to support these new perspectives, but also to investigate the difficult questions concerning their perilous relations with institutionalized disciplinary practices and structures.

CPIC supports attempts to disrupt recurrent distinctions between theory and practice, knowledge and value, ethics and aesthetics, secular and sacred; radical and self-critical forms of social understanding, anthropology, and cultural studies, including auto-ethnography and autobiography; expressive, performative, and reflective practices situated in between more than one tradition and their historical relations; translations and critiques that reveal how the West has translated itself into the colonies and translations that aims at decolonization. CPIC wishes to foster relations between creative and thinking people in and out of the academy.

 

 

CPIC Research Working Groups 2008 Conference

A SEMINAR WITH DR. MARY PAT BRADY

"N+1"

May 7

Panel 1 11AM-1PM

Panel 2 2:30-4:30PM

Green Room, FA 121

 

POLITICS OF WOMEN OF COLOR SEMINAR SERIES

April 29, 1:30-3:30PM, LT 1310

"Diasporic and Liberatory Intersections of Color in the Americas"

Dr. Lisa Yun, English Department and Asian and Asian American Studies Program, Binghamton University

 

NON DISCIPLINARY PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE took place on April 11th this year.

 

You can read the Research Working Group's current and long-term agenda by clicking here.

The Grant Writing Committee has met regularly during fall 2006. Several folders with important information about Grant possibilities have been put together. Those Workshops' participants who are interested in reviewing the folders, please contact the Center's secretary.

 

 

 

 

Last updated: 05/05/08

 

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