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