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Resisting Intellectual Imperialism and Epistemic Violence: Towards Autonomous Knowledge Production | A Conference

Everyone is invited to attend the international conference, “Resisting Intellectual Imperialism and Epistemic Violence: Towards Autonomous Knowledge Production,” which will be held via Zoom from 9 to 10 November 2024 (GMT + 8). The conference is free and open to the public, but slots are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Zoom credentials will be sent upon completion of the pre-registration form.

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FOUR PLENARY PANELS

  1. Defining and Reclaiming Academic Autonomy: For who and how should we produce knowledge?
  2. Epistemic Power
  3. Towards and Beyond Epistemic Decolonization
  4. Re-thinking Knowledge Production from the Margins

22 PANELS, 80 PRESENTATIONS

  • A1 Philippine Studies: Critiques and Futures
  • A2 Power and Violence
  • A3 Racism, Discrimination, and Subalternization
  • B1: Interrogating the Power Relations of Knowledge Production
  • B2: Gender and Epistemic Justice
  • B3: Knowledge, Narrative, and Coloniality
  • C1: Re-thinking the Coloniality of Knowledge
  • C2: Critical Readings in Decolonial Literatures
  • C3: Activist Responses to Intellectual Imperialism
  • D1.1: Education and Language
  • D1.2: Producing Autonomous Knowledges
  • D2: Concepts in Critical Political Epistemology
  • D3: Decolonizing the Classroom
  • E1 Reimagining the University: Decolonizing Knowledge, Autonomy, and Purpose in Higher Education
  • E2 LGBTQ+ Perspectives on Epistemic Violence
  • E3 Decolonizing Health, Well-being, and Spirituality
  • F1 Decolonizing Minds and Spaces: Indigenous Identity, Knowledge, and Autonomy in the Philippines
  • F2 Decolonizing the Classroom
  • F3 Knowledge and Power
  • G1 Islamic Perspectives on Epistemic Justice
  • G2 Neoliberalism and Knowledge Production
  • G3 Beyond Eurocentric Theory

OTHER SESSIONS/PANELS

  • Teaching Towards Epistemic Justice: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable on Pedagogy against Intellectual Imperialism
  • Decolonization by and for the Global South
  • Palestine: A Plenary Spotlight Session
  • Discussion on Reparations

To view the presentations per panel and sign up, please visit the Conference Website.

QUERIES and ORGANIZERS

For queries, please email [email protected]

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.

Taking lead on this project is Dr. Caroline Schopf of the Decolonial Studies Program. The Decolonial Studies Program (DSP) was established in 2019 to interrogate coloniality and the ongoing effects of colonialism in the Global South. Visit the DSP’s website and download FREE publications.