New Year Lecture 2023 - Prof. Dr. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Abstract
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Each year, the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence starts its line of annual activities and events with the New Year Lecture open to the interested public, featuring prominent speakers who address questions and concepts central to the Cluster’s agenda. After two years of Covid restrictions the 2023 New Year Lecture could finally be held in presence again.
On 12 January 2023, the New Year Lecture was delivered by Prof. Dr. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South. It was entitled "Ten Challenges in Reconfiguring African Studies".
Programme:
Welcome address
Prof. Dr. Nina Nestler
Vice President for Internationalization, Gender Equality & Diversity, Chair of Criminal Law, University of Bayreuth
Introduction
Dr. Christine Vogt-William
Director Gender & Diversity Office Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence University of Bayreuth
Lecture
Prof. Dr. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
Chair in Epistemologies of the Global South
People & roles
Origins & context
- Title
- New Year Lecture 2023 - Prof. Dr. Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
- Language
- English
- YouTube playlist
- New Year Lecture
- Date
- February 17, 2023
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- ladies and gentlemen and dear guests a very warm welcome to today's New Year's lecture on behalf of the University of birwood the last year has been exciting dramatic and it has shocked us in many moments nevertheless or perhaps precisely because of that we are looking to the future without motivation and with hope and we are pushing ahead with internationalization and diversification in the internationalization strategy this can be found above all in the areas of Cosmopolitan campus and Global Networks as University of Iowa we understand open-mindedness especially in these times as a core element of the University's Global profile today you're dealing with 10 challenges for reconfigurating African studies and these 10 challenges include genealogical epistemic linguistic chronological and theoretical aspects this is a wide range at the heart of the reconfiguration of African studies is the imperative of decolonization the recognition of Africa as a legitimate site of knowledge production and rethinking African studies but if you look carefully at the global Affairs today you will see that they are partly moving in the opposite direction new powers are taking foothold on African territory taking over knowledge resources and culture massive direct Investments lead to financial dependencies and some see this as nothing more than a new form of colonization and the Democratic part of the world defends values on African soil that it partly brought there itself in 1986 the African Charter on humans and people's rights came into force of all human rights treaties it has the greatest diversity of rights with 53 signatory States the chart is the largest Regional Human Rights protection regime in the world but the status of the implementation and the enforcement is still fragmentary another example the Nagoya protocol it is also proof of how science is trying to take a responsible path together with Africa making such a self-commitment poses enormous administrative challenges… Read the full text about 12,048 words
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