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Call for Papers
Theme: Knowledge Loss, Bondage and Regrets in Post-contact Societies
Type: 2018 AfriScoN International Conference
Institution: Africanity Scholars Network (AfriScoN)
Faculty of Arts, University of Nigeria,
Nsukka Location: Nsukka, Enugu State (Nigeria)
Date: 9.–13.12.2018
Deadline: 30.4.2018
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Scholarly discussions around the experiences of most post-contact
societies are encountered through theoretically and methodologically
radical works such as found within the purview of postcolonial
studies. We get a sense of the particularities and the universals in
how colonial legacies are experienced and challenged. Yet, we must
acknowledge the persistent domination of received over the indigenous
knowledges in Africa for instance.
In the Africanity Scholars inaugural conference, we ask how one might
conceptualise loss, bondage, and regret in thinking about the
tensions between autochthonous and heterochthonous knowledge systems.
How do religion, technology, culture, society, disciplinary
formations, academic discourses, etc. structure and simultaneously
play as the sites of these tensions?
Panel and paper proposals are invited from academics, scholars,
practitioners and advocates of indigenous knowledge systems and
graduate students whose research interests relate to these questions.
Panelists and paper presenters can address the following and any
other related themes:
1. The politics of knowledge production (traditional, contemporary,
etc.) in post-contact societies
2. Western research methodologies and knowledge production in
post-contact societies
3. Indigenous methodologies: patterns and typologies
4. Who owns knowledge? The researcher? The researched? The funder?
The publisher? Society?
5. Who studies who? For who? For what?
6. Paradigms, research agenda and the framing of reality
7. Gender roles and contestations in knowledge production
8. New cultures (Internet, social media, etc.) and the reordering of
epistemologies
9. Visual epistemologies: seeing and knowing
10. Knowledge policing: theory and practice (publishers,
institutional gatekeepers, hiring and promotional practices, etc.)
11. Language, ideology and knowledge
12. ‘Discursive formations’: Inclusion and exclusion
Panel Submission
Interested persons can submit panel proposals of a maximum of 1500
words addressed to any of the above and related themes through our
online platform:
http://www.afriscon.org/international-conference.html
Submissions can be made in indigenous languages with the abstract
translated into the English Language. You download the call for panel
proposal:
http://afriscon.org/assets/afriscon-2018-conference_call-for-panel-proposal_.pdf
Deadline for submission is 30 April 2018.
Keynote
The Decoloniality of Epistemology and Knowledge Production
by Walter D. Mignolo
Call the following lines for further information:
+2348068092148 (Nigeria); +18477355169 (USA); +447771725434 (UK)
Contact:
Africanity Scholars Network (AfriScoN)
Room 226, Block B
Faculty of Arts Complex
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
Phone: +234 8063288540
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.afriscon.org/international-conference.html
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