International Conference on the theme ‘Educational Decolonization for Curricular Pluriversality’
A South Africa Event on 2016-04-11 09:00:00
The overall purpose of this International Interdisciplinary Conference, and its follow-up seminar and workshops, is to open Academic Freedom Dialogue on creating avenues for more systemic pedagogical work towards developing an intellectual harmony of various cosmovisions existing in a such an empowering dialectical unity of pluriversality/multiversality, which enables dialecticians from various communities and their own Indigenous Knowledge Systems, particularly those of peoples colonised by European powers, to converge, productively work together and flourish in equality, mutual tolerance and reciprocal cross-fertilization with those from mainstream European knowledge systems at the University of Sussex. It is expected to create opportunities for learning from and sharing best practices from this effort and similar endeavours in institutions of higher education and communities within and beyond Europe. This calls for the active promotion and acceptance of 'cultural democracy' in academic life in such a way as to 'widening participation' and to bridge, through genuine Community Engagement, the gap between institutions of Establishment Academia such as the University of Sussex and those community-based places and processes of Lifelong Learning that some Scholar-Activists are calling the Grassroots Academia of an emergent decolonising Global Academy Commons. You can find out more about this conference and its related seminar and workshops, and get acquainted with our aims, objectives, strategy, plans and still work-in-progress activities of our DIPICS at the following website of our School of Global Studies of the University of Sussex: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/global/dipics Co-Chairpersons: 1. Professor James Fairhead, Anthropology Department, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, United Kingdom (TBC). Speakers: 1. Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith – University of Waikato, Hamilton, Aotearoa/New Zealand. 2. Professor Gurminder Bhambra – Prosefor in Postcolonial Historical Sociology – University of Warwick, UK 3. Professor Cecile Wright – University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom (TBC). 4. Dr. Lorna Williams – Associate Professor Emeritus, Indigenous Education University of Victoria Canada (TBC) 5. Dr. Alana Lentin – Former Unviversity of Sussex Political Sociologist and Social Theorist – University of Western Syndney – Australia 6. Ms. Piaba Madokwe – General Secretary, Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command (EFFSC), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa. 7. Dr. Saurabh Arora – Senior Lecturer in Technology and Innovation for Development (SPRU – Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex. 8. Dr. Lisa Palmer – Lecturer in Sociology, Birmingham City University and British Black Studies Association. 9. Ntokozo Qwabe – South Africa The conference shall comprise of two sessions. The first session: 9.30 am 1.00pm. Lunch break: 1pm 1.50pm. The second session: 2pm 6pm. After this one-day conference, you are welcome to continue participation in our follow-up seminar and workshops for the next two days from 12th to 13th April 2016 on the same Falmer campus venue of our University of Sussex. More information about the seminar and its associated workshops is also available on our website given above. Please note that places are limited, so those accepting a place must attend or offer their place to someone on the waitlist. Click on http://www.sussex.ac.uk/global/dipics for registration form. This event is open to all University of Sussex students and staffs and do not need to register except submitting papers for the workshop on 12nd of April 2016. Click here for more information: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/global/dipics or email Luqman Temitayo Onikosi: lto21@sussex.ac.uk or call +447500585269.
at Attenborough Centre University of Sussex
University of Sussex Sussex House, Falmer Brighton, BN1 9RH United Kingdom
Falmer, United Kingdom
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