Walter D. Mignolo, Professor and Director of the Centre for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University (USA), is giving a public lecture on 23 May 2018 at 17.15 entitled: "La conscience décoloniale: The Call of the Humanities". The event is taking place at the University of Freiburg and open to all those interested. Walter D. Mignolo, who has published extensively on semiotics and literary theory, explores concepts such as global coloniality, the geopolitics of knowledge, transmodernity, Border-Thinking and pluriversality. His internationally renowned publications include the trilogy "The Darker Side of the Renaissance" (1995), "Local Histories/Global Designs. Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledge and Border Thinking" (2000) and "The Darker Side of Western Modernity" (2011).