About the event
In this keynote, Christopher Marmolejo will discuss divination as a choral, sonic medium in which the diviner is in correspondence with image, text, ancestor, element, time, the unseen and the uncertain. Marmolejo will explore decolonial divination, or a “red read,” that emphasizes speculative relations as a way of knowing, a way of understanding our relationship to the world and a methodology in which the diviner becomes a DJ, enacting critical intervention to let the margins talk back.
Marmolejo continues Educating the Whole Human, a University Libraries series featuring accomplished scholars whose acclaimed work, shaped by lived experience, expands how knowledge is created and understood.
Free and open to everyone. Registration is required. General seating.
Please note no bags will be allowed at this event.
About Christopher Marmolejo
Christopher Marmolejo is a writer, scholar, educator and diviner whose work explores decolonization, indigeneity, queerness and consciousness through divination. Their teaching and scholarship bring together critical and feminist pedagogy with tarot, astrology and other forms of divinatory practice.
Marmolejo is the author of Red Tarot: A Decolonial Guide to Divinatory Literacy, which approaches tarot as a form of critical literacy and explores how its symbols and traditions can be reconsidered through decolonial and queer perspectives. Their work as an educator centers on creating spaces for critical inquiry, creative risk and ways of knowing that extend beyond conventional academic boundaries.
Plan your visit
Please bring a digital copy of your ticket and arrive early enough to complete security screening.
No bags will be allowed inside the venue.
Recording of any kind is prohibited and may result in the revocation of admission.
About Educating the Whole Human
Educating the Whole Human is a University Libraries speaker series featuring accomplished scholars whose acclaimed work, shaped by lived experience, expands how knowledge is created and understood.
The series invites students, faculty and community members to explore how these speakers combine expertise and lived experience to ask new questions, create original work and put knowledge into practice—and to consider what those approaches could make possible in their own studies, research, careers and lives.
This program is supported by a University of Colorado Boulder Impact Grant.