Rethinking epistemic sovereignty and autonomy from Global South perspectives

📆 October 26, 2026, 17:00 UTC+3 11:00 UTC-3

Karina A. Bidaseca & Bob Wekesa & Prof. Mahjoob Zweiri

This panel brings together Dr. Karina A. Bidaseca (University of Buenos Aires/CONICET; CLACSO South-South Program), Dr. Bob Wekesa (Director of the African Center for the Study of the United States, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa), and Prof. Mahjoob Zweiri (Middle East Council on Global Affairs), with Dr. Selçuk Aydın as commentator, to explore how intellectual communities in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East can generate knowledge rooted in their own historical and intellectual contexts while engaging with dominant knowledge systems. Although these regions possess distinct histories of colonialism, modernization, and intellectual exchange, they share efforts to challenge dominant categories and develop concepts based on their own experiences. The panel examines how regional knowledge can contribute to theory and reshape broader intellectual debates without reducing decolonization to a single model.

The session will be online. Please register to receive the Zoom link.

Organized by: World Decolonization Forum