Period: September 2-13, 2024
Location: Centre for Afro-Oriental Studies (CEAO), Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (FFCH), Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), and Goethe Institute, Salvador.
Summary:
The Factory of Ideas (Fábrica de Ideias in Portuguese) is an intensive, international and advanced doctoral school on ethnic-racial and African studies focusing on graduate students that has been promoting annual editions since 1998, always with the concern of theoretically articulating these two fields and providing spaces for dialogue that truly encompass global issues, involving researchers at different stages of their academic career as well as paying attention to the individual research project of the students. In the last edition, held in Maputo in 2022, we associated an international symposium with the doctoral school. It was a way to optimise resources since the theme of both events is the same and most scholars invited to the symposium also lectured in the doctoral school.
The 2024 edition of the Factory of Ideas is dedicated to the theme “The Turbulent Nineties and the Reconfiguration of Ethnic and African Studies: perspectives from the Global South” and will coincide with the celebration of the 65th anniversary of the Centre for Afro-Oriental Studies (CEAO). In the same direction as our last edition in Maputo, the 2024 edition of the Factory of Ideas will consist of two parts: the first four days will be more theoretical, in the format of an international symposium, and the following six days will be more practical and focused, in the format of a seminar, on debating the research projects of the students. The 1990s saw transformations in the global intellectual landscape, with a significant impact on African, Ethnic and Afro- American Studies. Several processes converged for the reconfiguration of these fields of study: the height of multiculturalism and the beginning of its crisis; the advent of intangible heritage as a variable in an increasingly broader set of symbolic disputes and social conflicts; the globalization of the “post-colonial”; the beginning of the “turn decolonial”. The “Global South” also experienced political and economic transitions that changed the context and conditions of knowledge production, with the emergence of voices and agendas hitherto silenced, in a complex situation of weakening of the State and reinforcement of external dependence. We propose to discuss the facets of this process of theoretical reconfiguration and its intertwining with the Global South. In this edition various forms of participation are foreseen: a. in-person participants of both moments of the event (around 50 senior researchers and 50 graduate students and early career junior academics). B. up to 10 researchers of intangible heritage and cultural activists or practitioners participating in the special session of the symposium dedicated to heritage and C. the public that will attend the symposium and the doctoral school through live online transmission, anywhere on the planet.
Goals:
Our main objective is to provide an advanced reflection on the fields of African Studies and Ethnic Studies, with particular attention to their interrelationship and reconfiguration from the last decade of the 20th
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