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[Commlist] CFP: ‘Towards Global Ways of Knowing: Exploring Epistemologies of the Indian Ocean Worlds’ Research Workshops

Tue Oct 24 22:40:29 GMT 2023





*‘Towards Global Ways of Knowing: Exploring Epistemologies of the Indian Ocean Worlds’ Research Workshops *

*(Tübingen, 21-22 March 2024; Nottingham, 6-7 June 2024) *

*Call for Papers*

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Modern human knowledge, as is known today, has been largely built on the epistemologies of the West and the Global North through processes of colonial expansion, capitalist globalisation and cultural imperialism; it also privileges cultural experiences in specific geographical locations such as the Atlantic and the Pacific. In the Indian Ocean Worlds which include much of Africa and Asia and where the majority of the Global South countries are located, a wide range of knowledge practices and ways of knowing have long existed. However, they have been underexplored or even dismissed as ‘unmodern’ or ‘unscientific’, excluded from the modern knowledge system. Examples include: alternative understandings of the body and wellbeing through traditional medicines and healing methods, multiple ways of feeling and knowing the world without privileging the visual experience, and creative modes of relating to the world without recourse to personal identity and the individual self. The project asks: What are some of theindigenous and decolonized epistemologies in the Indian Ocean Worlds? How have they been practised by people on the ground in these regions? How can these knowledge and experiences be successfully incorporated into global epistemologies, for instance, how can they be used to inform innovative teaching and research in global universities?

This project, jointly funded by the University of Nottingham’s International Collaboration Grant and the University of Tübingen’s Global Counters Platform and the Excellence Strategy, explores global and indigenous epistemologies in the Indian Ocean Worlds. It imagines the Indian Ocean Worlds as spaces for conceptual and theoretical building towards decolonised knowledge. It seeks to bring together researchers from the two universities and beyond to exchange ideas and workshop papers, with the aim of putting together an edited book for publication based on selected papers from the workshops.

The core part of the project consists of two research workshops, held respectively in Tübingen in March 2024 and in Nottingham in June 2024. We welcome scholarly papers from different, and intersecting, disciplines and scholarly fields, including but not limited to critical theory, cultural studies, Asian studies, African studies, Indian Ocean studies, Afro-Asian linkages, inter-Asian exchanges, Afro-Arab crossroads, sociology, anthropology, history, geography, and international relations.

Researchers are welcome to submit a 300-word (max.) abstract and a 150-word (max.) biography note, together with their contact information (i.e. Email address) to the workshop co-organisers: Dr Hongwei Bao ((hongwei.bao /at/ nottingham.ac.uk) <mailto:(hongwei.bao /at/ nottingham.ac.uk)>) and JProf Jacky Kosgei ((jacky.kosgei /at/ es.uni-tuebingen.de) <mailto:(jacky.kosgei /at/ es.uni-tuebingen.de)>). Please use ‘Nottingham-Tübingen workshops’ in the subject line of your Email. Please also address your questions and queries to the two co-organisers.

*Abstract submission deadline: 30 November 2023*

*Notification of acceptance: 10 December 2023*

*Tübingen Workshop: 21-22 March 2024*

(Venue: Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, 50 Wilhelmstr., 72074, Tübingen, Germany)

*Nottingham Workshop:  6-7 June 2024*

(Venue: University of Nottingham University Park Campus, Nottingham, NG7 2RD, United Kingdom)

*Workshop Bursary*

There is a bursary to enable PhD students and Early Career Researchers from the two universities to attend the workshop. Please submit a request to the co-convenors.

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