Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies

Summer School

Spring Academy 2024 - Pluriversal Knowledge

April 8th - 12th, 2024

Spring Academy 2024 - Pluriversal Knowledge

The multiple crises created by the current dynamics of globalization have called the concepts such as development, progress, and modernization into question. In the face of such a scenario, pluriversal thinking offers ways for imagining alternative social designs. Towards this aim, the 2024 Spring Academy "Pluriversal Knowledge" calls for an engagement in the ongoing debates in academia, activism, and cultural production that focuses on the Pluriverse as a methodological and theoretical framework that has emerged in the context of post-developmentalist thought and epistemologies of the South. Looking for “a world into which many worlds fit”, we follow Arturo Escobar’s invitation to develop a capacity to design alternative worlds that challenge globalization's drive to homogenize what is diverse in principle. Thus, we take up the provoking impetus of new political ontologies, indigenous notions of the good living and calls for cognitive justice. In accordance with the way which Global South Studies addresses issues of globalization in a comparative and transdisciplinary perspective, the ICGSS Summer School will combine theoretical and methodological debates with scholars from the partner universities in the Global South, alongside colleagues from Asia-Pacific and Latin America, with a dialogue between academia, art, and political activism.

Partner Universities

Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Universität Tübingen

Coordinators

Convenors

Dr. Prof. Susanne Goumegou (UT)

Dr. Prof. Sebastian Thies (UT)

Dr. Prof. Russell West-Pavlov (UT)

 

Organizers

Charles Rono (UT)

Kristell Pech-Oxte (UT)

Ronica Vungmuankim (UT)

Souraja Chakraborty (UT)

Valeria Lopez Alvaro (UT)

 

Contact Person:

Laura Sánchez Carrillo (UT) 

Programme

Monday- 8th April, 2024

Artistic Ethics of Knowledge

Keynote: Introduction to Pluriversal Knowledge: Constructing Interknowledges, Negotiating Proximities

Russell West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen)

Susanne Goumegou (University of Tübingen)

Conference: Ethics of Listening to Pluriversal Knowledges

Patrick Eisenlohr (University of Goettingen)

Project Workshop: Listening in Pluriverse

Souraja Chakraborty (University of Tübingen)

Patrick Eisenlohr (University of Goettingen) 

Tuesday- 9th April, 2024

Women's Rights and Pluriversal Thinking in Media

Project Workshop on Listening

Patrick Eisenlohr (University of Goettingen)

Russell West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen)

Souraja Chakraborty (University of Tübingen)

Workshop: Feminism in the Streets and Student's Presentation

Valaria López Alvaro (University of Tübungen)

Panel 1: Women's Rights and Feminist Proposals from a Pluriversal Approach

Mpho Tshivase (University of Pretoria)

Fatoumata Keita (University of Bamako)

Silvana Cristina Tapia Tapia (University of Birmingham)

Moderator: Valaria López Alvaro (University of Tübungen)

Pluriversal Thinking in Media

Thais Machado Borges (University of Stokholm)

Susanne Goumegou (University of Tübingen)

Wednesday- 10th April, 2024

Conflict mediation and Justice and Feminism in the Streets

Panel 3: Negotiating Peace, Mediating Conflict

Corianne Welenga (University of Pretoria)

Angela Iranzo Dosdad (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Ponni Arasu (University of Tübingen)

Riccarda Flemmer (University of Tübingen)

Moderator: Russell West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen)

Panel 2: Feminism in the Streets

Ponni Arasu (University of Tübingen)

Thais Machado Borges (University of Stockholm)

Gabriela Gonzáles Ortuño (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) 

Moderator: Valaria López Alvaro (University of Tübungen)

Workshop: Impact of the "Pluriverse" in the International Peace Agenda- "Relational Peace" and Columbia as a Case Study

Angela Iranzo Dosdad (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Thursday 11th April, 2024

Pluriversal Thinking in Literature and Curricula

Panel 5: Pluriversal Thinking in Literature

Fatoumata Keita (University of Bamako)

Adalberto Müller (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

Ivonne Sánchez Becerril (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Trudruá Dorrico (Universidade Federal de Roraima) 

Moderator: Kristell Pech-Oxte (University of Tübingen)

Discussant Susanne Goumegou (University of Tübingen)

Performance: The Walk

Ponni Arasu (University of Tübingen)

Workshop: Orality and Translation in the Pluriverse

Jacky Kosgei (University of Tübingen)

Book Release: Subjectividades de la Megaurbe mexicana: de la articulación estética a la participación politica

Ivonne Sánchez Becerril  (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Gabriela González Ortuño (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Moderator: Edivaldo González Ramirez (University of Tübingen) 

Panel 6: Future of the University

Mamadou Dramé (University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar)

Dilip Menon (University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg)

Karin Amos (University of Tübingen)

René Ramírez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Moderator: Russell West-Pavlov (University of Tübingen) 

Friday- 12th April, 2024

Indigenous Pluriverses

Panel 7: Indigenous Knowledge: Conservation and Future Discourses

Roluahpuia (Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee)

Adalberto Müller (Universidade Federal Fluminense)

Genner llanes Ortiz (Bishop's University, Canada)

Trudruá Dorrico (Universidade Federal de Roraima)

Moderator: Ronica Vungmuankim (University of Tübingen) 

Panel 8: Museum and the Politics of Restitution

Kham Khan Suan Hausing (university of Hyderabad)

Mikaél Assilkinga (Technology University, Berlin)