Interdisciplinary Knowledge-Exchanges Event Towards A Decolonial Imaginary.
Come together for this online seminar where we share knowledge from different fields to create a decolonial vision for the future.
This two-day seminar is the second in a series of interdisciplinary knowledge exchange events towards a decolonial imaginary around ethics in north-south transnational media collaborations. Currently, insufficient attention to ethics in transnational partnerships for research, pedagogy, and practice, means that colonial continuities of knowledge, and economic and geopolitical inequities are perpetuated. Also worth exploring here is Dhawan’s (2012, 2021) debate on transnational justice and global solidarity. It, for instance, questions unchallenged vestiges of “historical processes through which certain individuals are placed in a situation from which they can aspire to solidarity and global benevolence" (Dhawan 2021: ICRRA Conference). Unpacking these issues can usefully foreground discussions on how such media collaborations can be approached to disrupt reproductions of feudal relations which they (unintentionally) reproduce (Dhawan 2013; Serunkuma 2024). Thus, discussions will revolve around themes of transnational literacy, indigenous knowledge systems, psychosocial dynamics of decolonisation, contexts of neo-colonial transnational engagements, European semi-peripheral media and research production. There will also be some leaning towards economic development in Postcolonial thought.
This academia-industry interface aims to ensure the participation of geopolitical landscapes directly implicated in north-south transnational media collaborations. Towards this goal, the inaugural seminar focussed on perspectives from Africa. This iteration particularises interdisciplinary perspectives of (media) scholars and media practitioners whose works contextualise South-Asian realities.
Keynote (31st May 2024): Professor Nikita Dhawan (Postcolonial expert and Chair of Political Science focusing on Political Theory and the History of Political Thought, at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany).
Chair for 30th May 2024: Dr. George M. Bob-Milliar (Associate Professor in African Studies, at the Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi-Ghana.
Chair for 31st May 2024: Imruh Bakari (Filmmaker and Senior Fellow at the University of Winchester, UK).