Rolando Vázquez is a teacher and decolonial thinker. Rolando is "Professor of Post/Decolonial Theories and Literatures, with a focus on the Global South" at the department of Literary and Cultural Analysis & the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA). He is regularly invited to deliver keynotes on decoloniality at academic and cultural institutions. Since 2010, he co-directs with Walter Mignolo the annual Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School, now hosted by the Van Abbemuseum. In 2016, under the direction of Gloria Wekker, he co-authored the report "Let’s do Diversity" of the University of Amsterdam Diversity Commission. He is advisor at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, the Rijks Academie in Amsterdam and the Textiel Museum in Tilburg. He is fellow at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.

Vázquez's work places the question of the possibility of an ethical life at the core of decolonial thought and advocates for the decolonial transformation of cultural and educational institutions. His most recent publication is "Vistas of Modernity: Decolonial aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary" (Mondriaan Fund 2020).

Keynote Speech: Recalling Earth, Overcoming the Contemporary • Berlin Biennale

Keynote Speech: Transforming Institutions On Social and Climate Justice • Jan van Eyck Academie

Opening talks for TU Delft Studium Generale: 'Decolonising knowledge: what is decolonisation?' and 'Decolonising design & engineering'.

For Summer school Utrecht: Learning to Unlearn Decolonially (Living, knowing, the university & the museum)

Rolando Vázquez in the media

• Book presentation 'Vistas of Modernity' at Kunstinstituut Melly, with a keynote by Prof. dr. Gloria Wekker
• Two opening talks for TU Delft Studium Generale: 'Decolonising knowledge: what is decolonisation?' and 'Decolonising design & engineering'.
• Lecture for the Jan van Eyck: 'Transforming Institutions: On Social and Climate Justice' . For more information regarding the context of this event, click here. 
• Lecture for the University of Paris: 'Créolisation et décolonialité comme alternative à la Modernité'. For more information regarding the context of this event, click here. 
• Online articles together with Hisham Kalidi (Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht), first Published at Rekto Verso: 'A New Bauhaus? The Debate for a More Inclusive Europe' and for Eurozine: 'A new Bauhaus? The debate for a more inclusive Europe'
• Keynote at the Jan van Eyck for the Conference: 'On a New Bauhaus? The Debate for a more inclusive Europe' 
• The Critical Practices Talks on YouTube
• TV programme Art Institute Melly: 'Episode 2: Leren | Learning' 
• Interview with Utrecht University: 'A move towards plurality'
• Interview with DUB (Dutch newspaper): 'A broader look on the past helps us to understand contemporary society’

• Google Scholar publications
• Narcis profile