Reflecting on Liberation in a Colony of Total and Partial Resettlement
Dates: September 27 - 29, 2024
Times: See Program
Location: Université du Québec à Montréal, Amphithéâtre (SH-2800) 200 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal
The North Bandung Conference 2024 is entitled "For a decolonial International, the subalterns of the North speak!", is an international political event inspired by the spirit of Bandung of 1955 which will mark a first in North America.
This event will address issues affecting the realities of non-white people in the global north, as well as reflect on a project for a Decolonial International which would seal a political alliance between decolonial movements in the West.
The Northern Bandung Conference is in keeping with the spirit of Bandung 1955, an international event. At the time of the Cold War, when the world was polarized between the Soviet and Western blocs, a group of newly sovereign countries felt the need to accelerate the process of independence for their remaining colonies. It was in the modest town of Bandung, on the Indonesian island of Java, that this first international conference was held from April 18 to 24, 1955.
This conference brought together some 2,000 delegates from twenty-nine nations in Africa and Asia, with the aim of accelerating the independence of these countries and reflecting on their common problems which weigh on world peace.
Our 2024 conference, organized entirely by non-white people, will mark a first in North America, and will address issues affecting their shared realities in the global North, as well as reflect on a project for a Decolonial International that would seal a political alliance between decolonial movements in the West. The aim will be to forge projects and tools for struggle and resistance in the face of, on the one hand, the rise of supremacist nationalisms and ultra-liberalism and, on the other, the continuation of imperialist domination in all its forms.
The Conference was initially launched in 2018 in Paris with the participation of influential figures such as Angela Davis, Fred Hampton Jr. and Ramón Grosfoguel. This first edition was an essential starting point for discussions around a decolonial international. Subsequently, a second conference was held in Brussels in 2022 and Barcelona in 2023.
The Bandung du Nord 2024 conference, entitled "Pour une Internationale décoloniale, les subalternes du Nord parlent!", is an international political event inspired by the spirit of Bandung 1955, and will mark a first in North America.
The event will address issues affecting the realities of non-white people in the global North, and reflect on a project for a Decolonial International that would seal a political alliance between decolonial movements in the West.