CES Summer School
on
Epistemologies of the South IV - The end of a cognitive empire: what comes next?
June 21 to 29, 2018, Curia (Portugal)
The Epistemologies of the South are an epistemological and political
proposal that put into question the hegemonic centrality of the modern
Eurocentric matrix project and wager on the broadening of cognitive
justice and social justice recognising the impossibility of one existing
without the other. The South, in this context, is not a geographical
place, rather a metaphor for the unjust suffering promoted by the
oppression of colonialism, capitalism and hetero-patriarchy and for a
plural space of epistemological creativity closely linked to knowledges
forged in resistances and struggles. The South thus thought is
heterogeneous and includes diverse spaces, varied experiences and an
infinity of knowledges. The Epistemologies of the South recognize these
differences and value them, encouraging South-South dialogues, as well
as South-North dialogues.
The end of a cognitive empire, title of Boaventura de Sousa Santos’
latest book (forthcoming), points to the epistemological and
political exhaustion of Eurocentric thought and the need to value
epistemological, pedagogical and methodological proposals that promote
the struggle against epistemicide, the destruction of knowledges not
validated or made non-existent by the criteria of the modern scientific
canon.
The Summer School is as crossroads for the expansion of political and
epistemological imagination, which does not exhaust itself in the
denouncement of capitalist, hegemonic, colonialist and
hetero-patriarchal thinking, but also aiming to build and think
different alternatives, and at different scales, that, ...
Applications run until February 15th, 2018. All those interested in participating in the Summer School must fill in the form below and attach a short cover/motivation letter and a short CV.
4 scholarships covering the full participation in the course (registration fee, accommodation, meals and transportation from Coimbra to Curia and back).
Applications for scholarships should be submitted simultaneously with the application for the course, selecting the option "Scholarship Application", included in the course’s application form.
In this case, in addition to the short CV (up to two pages) and cover letter (up to 700 words), candidates must attach a letter of justification for the scholarship application, which should be no longer than 500 words.
APPLICATION FORM
Source: http://www.ces.uc.pt/cessummerschool/ [07.11.2017]
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