DAKAR INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
TOPICS AND PERSPECTIVES OF THE DEBATE
January 13-17, 2025
UCAD Dakar – Senegal
The international seminar in Dakar from 13 to 17 January 2025 aims to discuss the Epistemologies of the South in Senegalese territory. They participate in a prudent transformation of science's criteria of truth by resonating with the gaps between the different epistemologies and a permanent dialogue between knowledge, knowledge, and experiences built from the ecologies of knowledge. The central concern of the seminar is to welcome the epistemological diversity of the world, the immense variety of knowledge, scientific, vernacular, ancestral, original, religious, profane, peasant, indigenous, feminist, ways of inhabiting the earth... If the Epistemologies of the South refer to an epistemic south rather than a geographical south, the seminar will try to build on the interknowledge and interintelligibility in the French language of this knowledge, knowledge and experience, without neglecting local languages and their translations.
The seminar aims to promote the mutual enrichment of different knowledge policies through the recognition, resonance, hybridization and creolization of knowledge through processes of combination of co-presences and reciprocal transformation of knowledge ecologies.
The seminar is deliberately inscribed in a multidisciplinary and multicultural approach and will bring together various fields of knowledge: anthropology, sociology, philosophy, history, law, educational sciences, political ecology, aesthetics, medicine.
The Dakar seminar of 2025 is the result of a co-construction of research, publication and training resulting from multiple activities during the last decade with UCAD in Dakar, within the framework of a large international and multidisciplinary research network within LUCI (The International Cooperative University; https://luci.univ-paris8.fr/ of the UMR CNRS 7533 LADYSS), based on the pioneering work of Southern Epistemologies carried out at the University of Coimbra in Portugal by Boaventura De Sousa Santos and his team.
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PROGRAM
Monday, January 13, 2025
TIMETABLE | FACULTY OF HUMANITIES The epistemologies of the South as a politics of knowledge |
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Visit to the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters |
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Inauguration of the work by Mor Ndao and Jacqueline Descarpentries |
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | INAUGURAL LECTURE BY BOAVENTURA DE SOUSA SANTOS and discussions with the public The epistemologies of the South as a politics of knowledge |
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Food |
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | At the ETHOS Doctoral School: Collective discussion around a propaedeutic under the authority of Mor Ndao (remote participation of Alphonse Yapi Diahou (Former Director of the SHS Doctoral School in Paris 8) |
At the AGO Health Post | Start of the participatory construction of the "hello wall" around the health post |
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
TIMETABLE | FACULTY OF ARTS Research Alternatives Methodologies |
9:30 am – 1:00 pm | Round table and debates with the audience: Moderators: Bassene Bertrand Pape, Manola Antonioli Bado Ndoye, João Arriscado Nunes (Remote) , Monica Cardillo Jacqueline Descarpentries, Babacar Diouf and Farba Diouf, Céline Labrune Badiane |
Discussion with the public | |
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Food |
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | The example of citizen activities at the service of the communities of Ngolia by Babacar Diouf and Jacqueline Descarpents ; From the health cooperative of the Mbao Health Post with Badienes Gohx and Elodie Ros The example of the creation of the New Dakar School of Educators by Oumar Ndiaye, Cheikh Sidya Sow and Seynabou Diop of the AEADE with a debate with the audience. |
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING TECHNOLOGY FASTEF: KOCC BARMA AMPHITHEATER Decolonizing education | |
9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Meeting with the Dean of FASTEF |
9:30 am – 1:00 pm | Round table and debates with the audience in the presence of the Marema Touré Moderator: Mamadou Drame From colonial models of education in the Global North to the decolonization of education by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Jacqueline Descarpentrys, debate with Mouhamadiu El Haby BA, Tamsir Amadou Seck, Aminata Diop |
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Food |
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Work sessions with doctoral students organized by doctoral students from ETHOS, PARIS 8 and the UCAD doctoral student association. |
Thursday, January 16, 2025
TIMETABLE | FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES and AENEAS (Cité MOURTADA 2) Inhabiting the Earth with Noflaay |
9:30 am – 1:00 pm | Round table and debates with the audience: Moderators: Sidia Diaouma Badiane and Bafo Ndoye Manola Antonioli, ecosophy in discussion with Babacar Mbaye Diop, Mónica Cardillo, anthropology of decolonial law to inhabit the earth with Noflaay |
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Food |
5:00 p.m. | Dialogue on decolonial special education at the New School of Special Education (Cité Mourtada 2) |
8:00 p.m. | Cocktail reception (by invitation) |
Friday, January 17, 2025
TIMETABLE | ETHOS |
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Institutional meetings : assessment and perspectives |
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Food |
Saturday, January 18, 2025
TIMETABLE | PEOPLE OF NGOTIA |
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Collective outing to Ngothia |
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Welcome to the village by the village chief, district chiefs and village habitant.es |
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Meals in the village |
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Share experiences around mapping community knowledge Ngothie village chiefs, Babacar Diouf, Jacqueline Descarpentries |
8:00 p.m. | Festive night in Ngothie village |
Sunday, January 19, 2025
TIMETABLE | PEOPLE OF NGOTIA |
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Visits to post-mapping activities with youth, women and teachers (individual youth and women's plantings): Millet fields , groundnuts and gardens |
10:30 am – 1:00 pm | Visit of the 2 primary schools in the village (state of the sanitary facilities for students and teachers) - Visits to the sanitary facilities of the secondary school (student block and teachers' block and administration for possible improvements) |
Discussions on participatory actions envisageables.et commitments by each party | |
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Food |
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Return to Dakar |
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