AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE VIA ZOOM
Resisting Intellectual Imperialism and Epistemic Violence: Towards Autonomous Knowledge Production
9 – 10 November 2024, Philippines
The conference is free and open to the public, but slots are open on a first-come, first-served basis. This conference welcomes presentations that discuss:
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- What are the specific ways in which intellectual imperialism, academic dependency, white supremacy, and global academic power structures impact subalternized academics and knowledge production, and how does this manifest in the knowledge that is being produced?
- What are the strategies that we can use to resist and dismantle problematic structures
- How can we ensure that the subaltern can speak and is heard?
- What specifically would be the characteristics of true epistemic justice and true autonomous knowledge production?
This conference warmly invites thinkers and activists to contribute work that advances our understanding of intellectual imperialism, academic dependency, epistemic violence, and that suggests interventions paving the way to epistemic justice and autonomous knowledge production.
Scholars researching intellectual imperialism and academic dependency have critiqued the structural inequalities of global academia and knowledge production (S. F. Alatas 2003; S. H. Alatas 2000; Guillermo 2023; Patel 2021).
They argue that the metrification of academia and the imposition of university and journal rankings orient all knowledge production towards the Global North, predominantly the US, where most highly ranked universities, journals, and conferences are based (Guillermo 2023). View Full Concept Note.
Day 1: 9 November 2024
Dates and times are GMT + 8 (Philippines). Click on the panel titles to view presentations and abstracts.
Main Zoom Room
8:30 am – 11:20 am (GMT + 8)
The plenary presentation will be preceded by the welcome remarks and/or opening remarks to be delivered by the organizers, including Dr. Marby Villaceran, Convenor of the Decolonial Studies Program, UP CIDS.
Chair: Caroline M. Schöpf
Discussant: Jose Monfred C. Sy
Conversations
Ramon Guillermo
Reclaiming the University: In Defense of Academic Freedom and Institutional Autonomy
Carl Marc Ramota
Ways to Decolonize the International Studies Curriculum in the Philippines
Nassef Adiong
Conversations
Syed Farid Alatas
9 November 2024
11:30 am – 12:50 pm (GMT + 8)
Breakout Room 1 ♦ Chair: Jose Monfred Sy
Pilipiniana as anticolonial (re)theorising from-us-for-us
ALCAZAR III, Antonio Salvador; ALVAREZ, Maria Khristine; MAKALINTAL, Joshua Miguel; PAZ, Andya
The Ilustrado Theorizing ‘Filipinoness’: The Case of Pedro Paterno
Tabiolo, Ericka Jane E.
Slaying the Fathers?: Contemporary Perspectives and Paradigms in Philippine Studies
Moratilla, Noel Christian
Historico-Materialist Decolonization and the Methodological Woes of Filipino Philosophy: A Way Forward
Daduya, Justin Felip D.
Breakout Room 2
Chair: Tamari Kitossa
Decolonializing violence: structure, power and forced disappearance in Latin America
Arellano, Esteban
Denied knowledges: resistance and mourning in the space of the clandestine grave in Mexico
Martínez, Miguel Angel
Subaltern Perspectives on Armed Conflict, Displacement, and Gender-Based Violence: The Experiences of Internally Displaced People from Zamboanga and Marawi
Veloso, Diana Therese
Colonial Legacies in Paradise: Analyzing Gentrification and Settler Colonialism in Siargao Island, Philippines
Adremesin, Rozene Cerise
The Role of the United Nations in Promoting Stability and Development: Lessons from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Implications for Eswatinin
Diamini Nosipho Nomphumelelo
Breakout Room 3
Chair: Rench Supan
Resisting and Cracking Epistemic Racism: academic-activist practices in Colombia
Monica Marcell Romero Sanchez
Neither balangandãs nor creoles: memories of black women’s alleys as hegemonic counter-narratives of museums in Brazil
Flores, Joana
‘Theoretical Brahmins and Empirical Shudras’: The Need for Critical Caste Studies in Indian Academia
Subramanian, Srutheesh
Readings on slavery decoloniality interior dimensions of knowledge of Poikayil Appchan: an organic intellectual in Kerala
Dr. BIJULAL MV
9 November 2024
1:00 pm – 2:20 pm (GMT + 8)
Breakout Room 1
Chair: Caroline M. Schöpf
Discussant: Nathan Lo
Epistemic Extraction: The Role of Puerto Rican Historians in U.S. Academia’s Knowledge Appropriation
Jeremy Rivera Torres
Breaking Barriers: Understanding the Intimidation and Exclusivity of Research Conferences
Lulu, Fahadz
Breaking the Paywall: Advocating for Not-for-Profit Open Access in Academic Publishing
Espinosa, Allen
Translation as Autonomization: Notes on Decolonizing Translation
Talaue-Arogo, Antonette
Breakout Room 2
Chair: Athena Charanne Presto
Coloniality of Gender and the Procedural Forensic Production of Victimhood: Towards a Decolonial Practice of Creative Writing
Hosmillo, B.B.P.
Framing Marxist Standpoint Theory in Understanding Feminist Standpoint Theory
Castillo, Joven Albert
This Barbie is Trivialized: Epistemic Injustices Undermining Film Fangirls’ Epistemic Agency
Garcia, Rochelle Anne Bless B. & Marcaida, Pearl Darlene A.
Decolonizing Gender: Kasarian sa Pilipinas
Kaur, Mandeep B.
Making Noise: Dissonance and Disorder in Feminist Arab Art
Shirine Saad
Breakout Room 3
Chair: Wendell Glenn Cagape
Assembling the Dissimilar: A Glissantian Approach to Poetry at Sites of Intervention
Wilfredo R. Santiago-Hernández
Decolonizing Historical Narratives Through Forms of Orality: Anticolonial Resistance in Rosario Cruz-Lucero’s Feast and Famine: Stories of Negros
Virador-Cagayan, Farah Aimee
Surfacing women writers and advocates in American colonial-era periodicals as resistance to epistemic violence in colonial masculinist constructions of Cebuano media histories
Tabada, Ma. Theresa Angelina Q.
Stranger Queens and Local Heroes: Reflecting the Knowledge of Placemaking and Ethnic Relations in Colonial Java
Widiatmo, Danny
Museums in Malaysia: A Revisit
Ahmad Kamal, Hariz
9 November 2024
2:30 pm – 3:50 pm (GMT + 8)
Breakout Room 1
Chair: TBD
South-South dialogues: A conversation between ‘coloniality of knowledge’ and the ‘Alatas School of Autonomous Knowledge’
Ab Razak, Muneerah
Unmasking Intellectual Imperialism and Academic Dependency: A Tale to Tell with special Reference to India
Bhadra Bula
Coloniality of Power? Marcos’s Tadhana Project and the Ambivalence of Decolonial Critique
Rommel A. Curaming
Rewriting the Past to Enlarge the Present: A Call for a Transnational History of Sociology
Dufoix, Stéphane
Breakout Room 2
Chair: Glen Christian “Cian” Tacasa
Better Living Through Xeroxography: Its Functionality as a Space for Transgressive Literary Works
Catapang, Samantha Marie
Fiction and the Popular Nation:Re-Examining the Necessary Fictions in Philippine Literature Education
Dabalos, Joycel Vincent
The Last Chapter of The Wretched of the Earth: Epistemic and Incarnated Revolt in Fanon’s Psychiatric Work
Cordero-Pedrosa, Carlos
The Emergence of the Literary in Elaine Castillo’s ‘How to Read Now: Essays’
Martin, Maria Gabriela
Panimulang Tala sa Panitikan ng Anarkismo sa Pilipinas (Preliminary Notes on Anarchist Literature in the Philippines)
Ornopia, Ricky
Breakout Room 3
Chair: Hosmillo, B.B.P.
Pangayaw: Decolonizing Resistance Anarchism in the Philippines
Bas Umali
On Intellectual imperialism and academic bastardization of the truth
De Vega, Jose Mario
Metanoetics para sa Propesyon ng Pananampalataya: Alingaw-ngaw ng anarkistang umiibig sa katotohanan at nagmamahal sa karunungan mula sa pampublikong silid-aralan.
[Metanoetics for the Profession of Faith: Truth-loving, wisdom-loving anarchists’ ruminations from the public classroom.]
Glen Tee Jay A. Jarito
Experiencing parachute science knowledge in neocolonial period
Thakur Ashoke
Intellectual imperialism and epistemic oppression as a barrier for a progress
Amadoul Kabirou Issa Y Diallo
Main Zoom Room
9 November 2024
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm (GMT + 8)
Chair and Discussant: Frances Cruz
The Relevance of Anti-Colonial Social Theory
Sujata Patel
The White Man’s Cause: Tracing epistemic violence in the trafficking in persons discourse
Archill Capistrano
Making Brown Heritage, Or, the American Capture of the Postcolonial Intellectual
Charlie Veric
9 November 2024
6:10 pm – 7:50 pm (GMT + 8)
Breakout Room1
Chair: Stéphane Dufoix
Colonized Knowledge or a Parrot’s Tale? Rabindranath on Colonized Knowledge Production
Bhadra, Bula
Epistemic Exclusion as the Colonial Logic of “Correct” English in the American Imperial Imaginary
Manalastas, Nicko Enrique L.
Breakout Room 1 (7 pm)
Chair: Stéphane Dufoix
Discussant: Karen A. Calderon
Anti-Authoritarian Spaces and Decolonization in the Philippines: The Etniko Bandido Experience
De Vera, Crisanto
Building Autonomous Knowledge through Community-based Institutions
Hakim, Luqman
A conversation about guidelines for conference organization for privileged scholars
Caroline M. Schöpf
Pilipiniana as Anticolonial (re)theorising from-us-for-us
ALCAZAR III, Antonio Salvador; ALVAREZ, Maria Khristine; MAKALINTAL, Joshua Miguel; PAZ, Andya
Breakout Room 2
Chair: Shari S. Mansul
This is a panel discussion featuring:
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- Abdul-Aziz Lazaro
- Mahadia Soria Franji
- Huda
- Khalid Bashier
- Lance Dayrit
- Al-Frazier Ahalul (Tentative)
- Jennifer Kleskie
Breakout Room 3
Chair and Discussant: Rozene Adremesin
Beyond the Western Canon: Teacher Practices and Student Perspectives in Diverse Mathematical Traditions
Canonigo, Allan
Niche-Making in Intersectional Spaces: Narratives of a Mathematics Teacher Union Activist
Amoto, Jeena A.
Nowhere to Go but UP: Nowhere to Go but UP: Aspiring for Capital and Social Mobility in the Meritocracy of University of the Philippines College Admission Process
Alejandria, Leila
9 November 2024
8:00 pm (GMT + 8)
This discussion will be chaired by Bula Bhadra and held at the Main Zoom room.
This will be held in Breakout Room 1
Day 2: 10 November 2024
Dates and times are GMT + 8 (Philippines). Click on the panel titles to view presentations and abstracts.
Main Zoom Room
10 November 2024
8:00 am – 8:50 am (GMT + 8)
Discovering a Palestinian Indigeneity: Challenging Intellectual Imperialism through Palestinian Counterstorying
Bernardita M. Yunis Varas
Discussion on Palestine
Main Zoom Room
10 November 2024
9:00 am – 11:20 am (GMT + 8)
Chair: Rosa O’Connor Acevedo
Decolonization, Empire, and Epistemicide: Beyond Conceptual Colonization – Towards Collaborative Autonomy
Biko Agozino
Desplazamiento de sentidos, una vía para desmontar la episteme moderno-colonial-imperial (Displacement of meanings, a way to dismantle the modern-colonial-imperial episteme)
Karina Ochoa Muñoz
Intellectual imperialism at the secondary school level: Jamaican textbooks and the coloniality of knowledge
Moji Anderson
Unveiling Epistemic-Affective Injustices: Towards Pathways of Decolonial Feminist Horizon
Puja Ghosh
10 November 2024
11:30 am – 12:50 pm (GMT + 8)
Breakout Room 1
Chair: Keb Licayan
Colonial Obfuscation and Epistemic Rebellion: Problematizing Neoliberal Universities as Gatekeepers of Knowledge and Resistance
Parker, Charlie and Teng, Daranee T.
West African Epistemological Knowledge Productions and Contributions to Afrodiasporic Studies
Alex Kévin Ouessou Idrissou
Habermas and Maritain on the ‘Idea of the University’: A Reevaluation
Ocon, Joshua Jose
Autotheory and Autoethnography in Academic Zines
Cervantes, Carl Lorenz
Education and Policy Development: the Question of Decolonizing Academia
Aldosari, Noof
Breakout Room 2
Chair: Meel Valencia
Discussant: John Andrew G. Evangelista
Epistemic Paralysis and the SOGIESC Model: Postcolonial Resistance in Gender Theory
De Castro, Karen
Catching Up with the West: Manifestations of Violence through Homodevelopmentalism in the Philippines
Chanjueco, Hamilcar Jr. B. MAGVC
Epistemic Violence Within the SOGIESC Model
Taningco, Abi
Decolonizing and queering research engagements: The praxis of the ethic of care in Filipino queer ageing research
Muyargas, Moniq
Dismantling Epistemic Sexism within Philosophy: Where Does Feminist Philosophy Stand?
Amul, Agatha
Breakout Room 3
Chair: Victor John Loquias
Towards the Healing of Epistemic Injustice: Lessons from the Advocacy for Hilot
Calipayan, Louanne Mae
Epistemic Virtue: Analyzing the Negative Effect of Epistemic Injustice to the Healthcare System for Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines
Alonzo, John Raymund S.
Beyond Epistemic Violence: Exploring Marginal Young People’s Relational Well-being in the Global South
Basu, Chandni
Tibetan Buddhism and feminism in an in-between space: The rise of the non-western voice
Dr. Sharin Shajahan
Codifying Decolonial Theory in Religious and Values Education: Developing Contextualized Teaching Strategies in the Philippines through Gaspar’s Discourses on Pinoy Spirituality
Simeon, Andylyn M.
‘Charismatic Discourse in the Chinese Christian Academic Context of Hong Kong: In Search of the Epistemological Paradigm of ‘Global Pentecostal Studies’
Ng, Christian Nathen
Main Zoom Room
10 November 2024
1:00 pm – 2:20 pm (GMT + 8)
Chair: Glen ‘Cian’ Tacasa
Francisco Jayme Paolo Guiang
Department of History, University of the Philippines Diliman
Jose Monfred C. Sy
Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman
Noreen H. Sapalo
Department of Anthropology, University of the Philippines Diliman
Deidre R. Morales
Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature, University of the Philippines Diliman
Eric Loyd P. Hilario
Department of Mathematics, University of the Philippines Integrated School
10 November 2024
2:30 pm – 3:50 pm (GMT + 8)
Breakout Room 1
Chair: Keb Licayan
Indigenous Knowledge in the Philippines: Resisting Displacement, Epistemic Violence, and Advocating for Autonomous Cultural Preservation
Canzon, Yrein
Can the IP Speak?: Documenting the challenges of decolonizing the colonized thought among the Subanen Evangelicals
Cagape, Wendell Glenn
Epistemic injustice, militarization, and the closure of Lumad schools in Mindanao: Towards a transgressive pedagogy
Jerry D. Imbong
The Role of Non-Governmental Organizations in Advancing Peace Education in Selected Barangays in Zamboanga del Sur: A Case Study
Simbajon – Bucayon, Darlyn
Minority under Muslim Government: The Case of Christians and Indigenous Peoples (IPs) in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
Abdullah, Asmin P., Solaiman, Aisah P., and Adan, Gurhan A.
Breakout Room 2
Chair: Antonette Talaue-Arogo
The American Primary Education Curriculum as a Medium of Modelling a Civilization in the Philippine Islands
Cataquian, Kim
Textual Recognition as a Mode of Recognitive Pedagogy in James O’Brien, S.J.
Loquias, Victor John
Resisting Objectification in Education through the Community of Inquiry
Abog, Keisha Christle A.
A Systematic Review and Meta-Synthesis of Indigenous Filipino Values in Educational Leadership
Digo, Gerry S.
Knowledge Born from Struggle Insights into Learning and Resilience in Post-Conflict Syria
Alabdullah Muna
Breakout Room 3
Chair: Andya Paz
‘‘Yaƙin ƙwaƙwalwai’’ or Coloniality as Seen by the President of an Islamic Association in Niger
Hamissou Rhissa Achaffert
Theory at Fore, Politics in Command: Advancing the mass line in knowledge production to wage revolution against Imperialism
Valdez, Fives
Concretizing Epistemic Injustice: Reflections on Knowledge and Power from Women, People of Color, and the Poor
Moreno, Juan Miguel
Epistemic Colonialism in the study of Oriental scientific heritage
Syeed, Sabreen
Internationalisation de l’enseignement supérieur et dépendance académique des Suds (Internationalization of higher education and academic dependence of the South)
Mamadou Yéro BALDE
Main Zoom Room
10 November 2024
4:00 pm – 6:00 pm (GMT + 8)
Chair: Bijulal M.V.
Discussant: Nassef Adiong
Decolonizing is the only option in 2024: Reflection-Action of a Peace Educator
Fatima Sajjad
Thinking about Critical Knowledge Production
Sanal Mohan
Re-Integrating Knowledges Fractured by Colonialism: A Call for Sululogy
Nelson Dino
10 November 2024
6:10 pm – 7:40 pm (GMT + 8)
Breakout Room 1
Chair: Shari S. Mansul
Ikhtilaf and Ethical Epistemology: Taha Abderrahmane’s Islamic Decolonial Ethics of Epistemic Plurality
G. Idrissi, Achraf
Decolonizing Islamic Studies, Reclaiming Epistemic Sovereignty: Taha Abdurrahman and M. Amin Abdullah in Conversation
Damanhuri
Countering Epistemic Violence by Reviving the Islamic Scientific Tradition: The Experience of CIPSI (Center for Islamic Philosophical Studies and Information) Indonesia
Nuruddin Al Akbar
Alternative Modernity
Tarik ElFalih
Qasaysayan: Maka Islam na Hulagway tungo sa Makabayang Saysay ng Kapayapaan
[Narrative: An Islamic Approach to a Patriotic Narrative of Peace]
Andres Paul Mark
A Nation’s Struggle with Faith: Consuming Yeñi Ilm-i Kelâm as a Modern Turkish Anticolonial Movement Using Nišitani Keiji’s Notions of Crypto-Nihilism and the Logic of Sókù
Jeandale M. Lazaro (‘Abdul-‘Aziz Lazaro)
Breakout Room 2
Chair: Patricia Ruth P. Jasmin
Pera-perahan: The Neoliberal Trap of Conditional Cash Transfers in the Philippines
Guinto, Arienne Therese
Speech for Sale: Neoliberal Market Logics and Practices of Filipino Speaking Subjects in the Philippines
Serquiña, Oscar Jr.
The construction of a libertarian-liberal epistemology by theorists of left-wing thought Frankfurt School, Paris School: The representation of the collective imagination in the face of the great world market
SEGUIN Marie-Christine
Bonja: cultural heritage production processes and the appropriation of the place on the Island of Bom
Passos, Antônio Marcos de Oliveira
Quantitative Criticalism in Interpersonal Communication: Reconciling Decolonial Knowledge-Building and Empirical Theory-Testing in Interpersonal Communication Research of the Global South
Cruz, Karl Lewis
Breakout Room 3
Chair: Bula Bhadra
Emancipating Emancipatory Theory
Garcia, Bryan Patrick
The Ends of Theory
Santos, Marvin Charles
The Monotypisation of Sociological Knowledge Production: A Research on Turkish Academics
Altay, Sefa
Engaging the ‘Us’: Exploring Plural Identity through Community Cinema
Sofía Solís Salazar y Begonya Saez Tajafuerce
Inter-Ethnolinguistic Group Stereotypes in the Tarlac State University
Baquing, Jeanette M.
Main Zoom Room
10 November 2024
7:50 pm – 8:30 pm (GMT + 8)
This plenary panel will feature the presentation, “Genuine Assets Reform: Demanding Reparations from the West/Global North” by Phoebe Sanchez, University of the Philippines Cebu.
The panel will be chaired and discussed by Justin Daduya.
This succeeds Plenary Panel 4 and starts at 8:40 pm.
Presentation Guidelines
- Please prepare to speak for ca. 12-13 minutes.
- You may share your Powerpoint from your end, no need to send it to us.
- You may submit recorded videos.
- Please submit a link to the upload (e.g., in Google drive or dropbox).
- Please send in a new email (not responding to a thread) with the subject “Presentation recording” and the title of your session.
- Please do it half a day before your session, since the organizers have to inform your session chair.
- Please also try to join the session and have the link ready.
Zoom Guidelines/Reminders
- Presenters must have a registered zoom account and must log into this account. Otherwise it’s not possible to join the conference. Apologies, but these are university-wide settings that we cannot change.)
Others
- Certificates of presentation will be sent via email.
Guidelines for Panel Chairs
Please introduce the presenters briefly
- Please timekeep: Presenters are asked to speak about 12-13 minutes, but you can determine the exact time depending on the number of sessions.
- Please leave about 20 minutes for Q&A. Remind the speakers how much time they have left (5 min, 3 min, 1 min). Presenters on full screen will neither see the chat nor your camera; we recommend waiting for a time when they’re transitioning between slides, briefly unmuting and telling them how much time they have left.
- If a discussant is listed, please ask the discussant to share their thoughts for ca. 5 minutes
Take Q&A.
- You can extend the session by a maximum of 8 minutes, after that, people will need to get ready for the next session. (If you’re the last session of the day, please extend freely).
- We don’t have the logistics to present certificates of presentation to speakers during the conference, please thank them for their talk and assure them their certificates will be emailed to them.
The conference is free and open to the public, but Zoom slots are available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Download 1000+ policy papers from UP CIDS, including from the Decolonial Studies Program. These include:
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- Exploring Methods to Decolonize English Studies | Discussion Paper
- Decolonizing Religion: Wishful Thinking or a Real Possibility? | Discussion Paper
- Bangsamoro Local Government Code: Re-reading of Decentralization and its Problems | Policy Brief
- Pedagogy and Goal-Setting in Foreign Language Policy: Potentials for a Decolonial Framework | Discussion Paper
This conference is a project of the Decolonial Studies Program (DSP), Center for Integrative and Development Studies, University of the Philippines. UP CIDS is the policy research unit of the university.
The Decolonial Studies Program (DSP) was established in 2019 to interrogate coloniality and the ongoing effects of colonialism in the Global South. The program examines how neocolonial relationships with the Global North continue to shape institutions and lives in areas like resource allocation, trade, and culture, hindering the Global South’s potential for liberation. Visit the DSP’s website and download FREE publications.
The DSP is one of the 16 Research Programs of UP CIDS, the policy research unit of the University of the Philippines.
Taking lead on this project is Dr. Caroline Schöpf, Research Fellow of the DSP, who acknowledges the support of the Department of Sociology, University of the Philippines Diliman, for the conference.
The following are co-organizing this conference alongside Dr. Schöpf:
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- Rosa O’Connor-Acevedo (University of Oregon, US)
- Francisco Jayme Guiang (University of the Philippines Diliman / Chinese University of Hong Kong)
- Bijulal Mecheril (Mahatma Gandhi University, India)
- Monfred Sy (University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines)
- Fatima Sajjad (University of Management and Technology, Pakistan)
- Cian Tacasa (University of the Philippines Diliman, Philippines)
- Korey Tillman (Northwestern University, US)