HUMA Disobedience Workshops 2022
The HUMA Disobedience Workshops convene researchers working with theory to learn from each other and from leading experts in a convivial space and away from their daily routines. The workshops fall within HUMA’s objectives to generate and establish new knowledge and epistemic communities through networks, interdisciplinary conversations and intergenerational transmissions. Disobedience workshops aim to introduce and ground students to critical thinking, writing and the critique of knowledge and knowledge production through deep immersion and engagement with the sociology of ideas, philosophy and historical development of human, Southern, marginalised, and African/Africa-centred knowledges. This is undertaken through close/collective reading and discussion of decolonial, postcolonial, feminist and other decentring theory that offer complementary and alternative ways to engage with dominant theory. The workshops focus on the art of working with ideas, concepts, theory, methodologies, writing, researching and thinking in the humanities and social sciences in Africa. Workshops, mainly residential retreats, are compulsory for HUMA fellows, with spaces available for interested scholars, students and other researchers at the University of Cape Town and interested scholars from universities in South Africa, the African continent and beyond.
Format: A workshop consists of a two and a half-day residential hybrid meeting to critically discuss selected texts and participants' pre-circulated manuscripts with each other and other experts.
Participation
The Disobedience Workshops are primarily for HUMA fellows, affiliates and associates. However, we invite scholars at any stage of their careers to participate in the workshop. This includes PhD candidates, PostDocs, and early-mid career scholars in the humanities and related disciplines at the University of Cape Town. Applications from scholars at other universities in South Africa, the African continent and globally are welcome. We are particularly interested in proposals that critically engage with theory focused on “epistemic disobedience”.
A workshop consists of a two and a half-day residential hybrid meeting to critically discuss selected texts and participants' pre-circulated manuscripts with each other and other experts. In-person presenting participants coming from outside may benefit from limited support, where available, but required to sponsor their participation. Limited spots are available for scholars who would like to attend without presenting a paper.
Submission of proposals and confirmation
To apply, complete the online submission form below. Make sure to prepare and include the upload consisting of:
- Critical reflections of 800–1000 words discussing relevance, interest and engagement with "epistemic disobedience" related ideologies – decolonial/postcolonial/feminist theory – in your research work incl. a relevant bibliography of 15 influential texts
- A short bio
Submission deadline: 18 April 2022
Decisions will be announced by April 26th 2022. The selected participants will be requested to send in a paper of maximum 4,000 words by May 31st, 2022. For questions, enquiries and expressions of interest, email huma@uct.ac.za with the subject line 'Disobedience Workshops 2022'.
Online submission form: HUMA Disobedience Workshops 2022
