Call for Abstracts: International Decoloniality Conference   

The College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa (Unisa) invites you to submit abstracts for paper presentations on the conference theme: “De-colonisation and re-Afrikanisation: A conversation”. Abstracts of not more than 250 words should be sent to africanisation_conference@unisa.ac.za. The closing date for submission of abstracts is 9th March, 2018.

CONFERENCE THEMES

 Credo Mutwa: isanusi and seer

 UNongqawuse, time, voice, and language

 Civilisation and barbarism: a decolonial viewpoint

 Egyptology and Afrika

 Knowledge, over-standing and consciousness

 Voodoo and sorcery: transcendence

 Being, personhood and belonging: thinking beyond colonial concepts of race, gender and age

 Wellbeing

 Ethics of ubuntu/ubuntu as an ethic

 Justice above law: when law subverts the attainment of justice

 Memory and loss/loss and memory: re-membering Afrika

 Consciousness and materiality: the land question

 Spirituality, worship and theosophy

 The arts and aesthetic expression

 Haiti: lessons for re-Afrikanisation and de-colonisation

Details on the conference in the attachment below

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