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    BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY

    INTER CULTURAL STUDIES CENTRE AND


    MALAVIYA MOOLYA ANUSHEELAN KENDRA
    National Workshop on
    Decolonizing Knowledge: Perspectives from the Global South
    December 9-14, 2024

    December 9, 2024, Monday


    Rethinking Modernity/Capitalism from the
    Global South

    December 10, 2024, Tuesday

    The ‘Outside’ of Modern Western Thought


    Workshop Director
    December 11, 2024, Wednesday
    Prof. Aditya Nigam
    Intellectual Traditions of the Global South - I
    Professor Aditya Nigam is a political theorist based
    December 12, 2024, Thursday at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies,
    Delhi. His recent work has been concerned with the
    Intellectual Traditions of the Global South - II
    decolonization of social and political theory. He has
    December 13, 2024, Friday earlier worked on ideological and discursive
    formations and their relationship to the constitution
    Contemporizing – A Methodological Imperative
    of political subjectivities. He is the author of The
    December 14, 2024, Saturday Insurrection of Little Selves: The Crisis of Secular
    Doing Philosophy/Theory Today: The Point is
    Nationalism in India (2006), After Utopia:
    to Change it… Modernity, Socialism and the Postcolony (2010),
    Desire Named Development (2011) and
    WORKSHOP CONVENORS:
    PROF. ARCHANA KUMAR
    Decolonizing Theory: Thinking Across Traditions
    AND (2020).
    DR. BEAUTY YADAV VENUE: MALAVIYA MOOLYA ANUSHEELAN
    Department of English, BHU KENDRA, BHU, VARANASI- 221005
    Or scan
    GOOGLE FORM LINK:
    this QR
    https://forms.gle/A4Sum6kgawmVxVAK9 PROF. RAJ KUMAR PROF. SANJAY KUMAR
    COORDINATOR COORDINATOR
    For Contact: 8969254520 INTER CULTURAL STUDIES CENTRE MALAVIYA MOOLYA ANUSHEELAN KENDRA
    Email: decolonisationworkshop@gmail.com
    https://forms.gle/A4Sum6kgawmVxVAK9
    Concept Note

    The workshop aims at understanding decolonization of


    knowledge as a project that seeks to expand the empirical and
    theoretical base of social sciences and humanities rather than
    replace European provincialism by some other indigenous
    parochialism. This project cannot but be about understanding the
    present and thinking hard about the futures that the Global
    South wants – away from the path that has already been
    supposedly laid out for it by modern European knowledge, which
    continues to seduce ruling elites in the postcolonial world. The
    workshop will therefore attempt to connect up with some of the
    global concerns that have emerged in Asia, Africa and Latin
    America, which are variously expressed as projects of
    ‘decoloniality’, ‘epistemologies of the south’, ‘decolonization of
    theory’, ‘theory from the global south’ and so on. These different
    impulses together constitute a new conjuncture wherein the very
    enterprise of ‘theory’ is being reconstituted. To that end, the
    emphasis of the workshop will be on putting Western knowledge
    and theory ‘in its place’, rather than simply rejecting it. We start
    with the recognition that what we understand as Western theory,
    itself emerges by drawing from diverse bodies of knowledge –
    both philosophical and scientific – from different parts of the
    world in what have been called ‘circulatory’ and ‘dialogic’
    histories. This knowledge is therefore the common inheritance of
    humanity and is not the property of the West alone.
    It is nevertheless, equally true that the West/Europe did not simply
    draw on non-European knowledges but produced a whole new way of
    seeing and being that we know as modernity and what decolonial
    thinkers call modernity-coloniality. This new knowledge constituted
    a rupture even within Europe – and was accompanied by violence of
    different kinds in the colonized world. The workshop will, therefore,
    question the universalist claims of Western theory, which render
    specific European experiences of ‘modernity’ and its constituent
    processes like ‘secularization’, ‘individuation’, ‘industrialization’,
    ‘capitalism’ into norms and ideals to be aspired to by societies across
    the world. Taking historical, historico-philosophical and
    philosophical work produced by scholars – past and present – from
    India, China, Japan, the Arab and Persian world and Latin America
    as its point of departure, the workshop will try to put the very idea of
    ‘modernity’ itself under the scanner. Key concepts of modernity, as
    well as the knowledge produced under its banner – in virtual oblivion
    of (or by actively excising) the experiences of the non-European
    world – will be opened up for examination during the workshop.
    Throughout, we will underline the fact that theory, above all, is
    about intervention in our own time/s and consequently, the
    ‘museumization’ that most non-Western thought traditions suffer
    from needs to be rapidly overcome. Our interest in other thought
    traditions, including our own, is because we believe that they actually
    continue to animate thought and practices in the present and are not
    about some imagined past greatness.
    WORKSHOP STRUCTURE

    Spread over six afternoons, the workshop will be based on


    prescribed readings to be provided to the selected participants in
    advance. The participants are expected to come prepared for each
    session. One or two of them can take lead in initiating discussion
    based on the readings. Our purpose is to make the sessions engaging
    and interactive with ample opportunity for the participants to
    exchange ideas in a collaborative environment and to engage in a
    meaningful dialogue.
    The timings of the workshop will be from 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm with a
    short tea break in between.

    TARGET AUDIENCE
    While the workshop welcomes researchers from all disciplines, it will
    be of particular interest to the researchers and faculty members from
    Humanities and Social Sciences.
    Given the interactive nature of the workshop, the intake is limited to
    30 participants.
    The last date for submission of application is 10 November 2024. To
    apply follow the link: https://forms.gle/A4Sum6kgawmVxVAK9
    Applications will be shortlisted and selected candidates will be duly
    informed.
    No travel or daily allowances will be provided to participants.
    However, accommodation may be arranged upon request with cost to
    be covered by the participant.
    REGISTRATION FEE: ₹ 700 /-
    FOR CONTACT: 8969254520
    Email: decolonisationworkshop@gmail.com

    VENUE: MALAVIYA MOOLYA ANUSHEELAN KENDRA, BANARAS


    HINDU UNIVERSITY, VARANASI, 221005

    GOOGLE FORM LINK:


    OR SCAN
    https://forms.gle/A4Sum6kgawmVxVAK9 THIS QR

    Attendance in all the sessions is mandatory. Participation


    certificates will be issued to candidates on successful completion
    of the workshop. For further queries write an email to:
    decolonisationworkshop@gmail.com

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