05/07/2026
ONE WEEK AWAY! The DHC is proud to cosponsor two exciting events this spring presented by DePaul’s College of Education and featuring Catherine E. Walsh.
Catherine E. Walsh is an intellectual militant, socially committed pedagogue and internationally recognized scholar long involved in decolonial struggles and praxis, first in the U.S. and for over 30 years in Ecuador, where she has worked closely with Black and Indigenous movements at their request.
On Thursday, May 14th, from 5-7 PM in the Richardson Library, graduate and undergraduate students are invited to join Walsh for a conversation that engages directly with her work on decolonial praxis, re-existence, and the relational making of truth and reality. Rather than a formal lecture, this gathering will center on dialogue. It is intended for students seeking to connect theory and praxis, scholarship and activism, and phenomenological inquiry with decolonial forms of resistance and worldmaking.
On Friday, May 15th, from 3-5 PM at the DePaul Art Museum, as part of the Kopan Endowed Lecture Series, Walsh’s lecture examines how decolonial pedagogies rooted in re-existence open ethical and epistemic cracks that enable new forms of truth, meaning, and collective life. Responding to the authoritarian singularization of truth and the erasure of lived histories, Professor Walsh advances pedagogies of praxis grounded in Afro-descendant, Indigenous, and feminist struggles that cultivate dignity and relational renewal.
Mark your calendars for a month from now and register today!
👉 May 14th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/decolonial-cracks-and-pedagogies-of-praxis-a-student-conversation-tickets-1983827644889
👉 May 15th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/depaul-college-of-education-2026-kopan-lecture-tickets-1983268257747
DePaul Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
