5 May 2018

Dear Colleague,

The Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand,

will be organizing its second Theory from Africa workshop between August
19-25, 2018.

Central to this is the idea of building a new generation engaged with

knowledge from the Global South. A new knowledge for Africa and the
global South cannot come from merely a reproduction of a Euro-American
epistemology of the last three hundred years. We hope that the
participants in the workshops will carry back with them their enquiries to
their classrooms and research the conversations, ideas and utopian
theorizing that we shall initiate.

We have funding from the Mellon Foundation to fully support seven

graduates/young lecturers from African Universities (airfare and
accommodation) for this week-long workshop. There is also space for
those who would wish to fund themselves but the maximum number of
participants shall not exceed 14.

The resource persons for the workshop are Prof Magid Shihade (Birzeit,
Palestine), Prof Nivedita Menon (JNU, India) and Prof Carolyn Hamilton
(UCT, South Africa) who will teach on Ibdn Khaldun and theory from Africa;
feminisms in the global south; and historical concepts from Africa
respectively.

Applicants are requested to send a CV and a 500 word essay on the theme
“What does producing knowledge from Africa/the Global South mean to
me?” before the 30th June 2018 to Prof Dilip M Menon at
Dilip.menon@wits.ac.za.

Any enquiries may be address to Prof Dilip Menon.

Please could you circulate this widely.

Dilip M Menon PhD (Cantab.)

Mellon Chair in Indian Studies
Director, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa
University of Witwtersrand, Johannesburg
South Africa