INTRODUCING DECOLONIAL SUBVERSIONS

WATCH IT HERE: https://soas.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=fb415194-f702-4fb4-bde3-ab8a010f4179

Decolonial Subversions is a newly established open access, multilingual, peer-reviewed publishing platform committed to the decentring of western epistemology in the humanities and social sciences. It seeks to grant more visibility to scholars from the Global South by subverting barriers and norms that govern mainstream Anglophone knowledge production and publishing. You can read more about our motivations here: https://independent.academia.edu/DecolonialSubversions

We are comprised of an international team of collaborators and like-minded researchers, practitioners and professionals from India, Ethiopia, Senegal, Namibia, South Africa, Hong Kong, Hungary, Greece, Moldova, Italy and the UK. Our team and partners include academics, practitioners, activists, designers, photographers, web-development specialists, linguists and translators, all of whom appear on the website of the platform as integral members and stakeholders of this initiative.

The aim of the launch is to formally introduce the initiative to the SOAS community and the public and to present for the first time the online publishing platform and the first round of contributions. The Decolonial Subversions team will first outline the platform's innovative approach in terms of citation politics, peer review and language use. The panel will then explore broader questions around the role of multilingual knowledge in decolonising knowledge production, linking the conversation to broader issues of language learning and teaching at SOAS.

LAUNCH PROGRAMME (LONDON TIME)

12:00-12:30: Introductions and background by founding editors and official launch of webpage with content and contributions live.

Speakers: Dr Romina Istratii & Monika Hirmer

12:30-13:00: Testimonies by international partners about working with Decolonial Subversions and vision for the future and how they see Decolonial Subversions fitting within their local contexts and their areas of specialisation.

Speakers: Nirbhay Sen, Dr Suyash Barve, Elias Gebrselassie

13:00-13:30: A panel of international academics and researchers to discuss issues around language and publication barriers in research and knowledge diffusion, and how an initiative like Decolonial Subversions can contribute to efforts of decolonising higher education.

Speakers: Dr Márton Demeter, Prof Alex Kanyimba, Prof Lutz Marten (UK), Dr Michael Thomas