Rencontre Ibn Khaldun: Keynote Session on Decolonizing Knowledge

🌟🌍✨ Rencontre Ibn Khaldoun 🌟🌍✨

📣MECAM invites you to a Keynote Session on “Decolonizing Knowledge: Power, Epistemic Asymmetries, and Colonial Legacies”, an event organized as part of our Rencontre Ibn Khaldun series and during the Merian Family Meeting “Knowledge Diplomacy and South-South-North Cooperation”.
📍 Where: Hotel Carlton Tunis, 31 Ave Habib Bourguiba, Tunis 1000 and on Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83614611355?pwd=JuJLEibikp7waFLWsXE6HpD9G83jXe.1
📅 When: October 12, 2025, 11:30-13:00 Tunis time (GMT+1)
🎤 Speakers: Manuela Boatcă (University of Freiburg) and Soumaya Mestiri (University of Tunis), moderated and commented by Raouf Farrah (Tunis)
This multilingual event will feature two keynotes offering different perspectives on the topic of decolonizing knowledge. In the first, Prof. Manuela Boatcă will speak in English on “Decolonizing Knowledge in Times of Asymmetric Ignorance: On Counter-Mapping and Self-Indictments”. The second keynote, delivered in French by Prof. Soumaya Mestiri, is titled “La ‘machine à décoloniser’ : réflexions autour du geste décolonisateur”. The discussion that follows will be facilitated by Raouf Farrah and conducted in English and French, with the possibility for interventions in Arabic.


📢 Don’t miss it!


📍For more details, visit our MECAM - Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb website :
👉 https://mecam.tn/rencontres-ibn-khaldun-policy-talks/?lang=en
👉 https://mecam.tn/events/rencontre-ibn-khaldun-keynote-session-on-decolonizing-knowledge-power-epistemic-asymmetries-and-colonial-legacies-organized-as-part-of-the-merian-family-meeting-knowled/?lang=en

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