This event is organised by Birmingham Business School Decolonisation Project, University of Birmingham.
What does decolonizing the university mean? Sandew Hira, our keynote speaker and the author of Decolonizing The Mind – a Guide to Decolonial Theory and Practice, argues that colonialism has created a specific form of knowledge production for the social sciences, mathematics and the hard sciences that has produced distorted views of the world of humans and nature.
Hira argues that an alternative comprehensive, coherent and integral theoretical framework is necessary and possible that challenges the European Enlightenment.
WHEN: Saturday, August 12 · 10:30am – 5pm BST
WHERE: The Exchange 3 Centenary Square Birmingham B1 2DR
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Free registration
Agenda:
- Keynote: Sandew Hira
- Breakout sessions
- Plenary session
About the author:
Sandew Hira, penname of Dew Baboeram, is secretary of the Decolonial International Network Foundation (DIN). Hira studied economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in Holland. He has written 25 books on different topics among them colonial history. Download his CV is here. Follow Sandew Hira via his website: www.sandewhira.com.
Purchase Decolonizing The Mind from the IHRC Bookshop
