About this Event
If you are currently a PhD/Doctoral researcher or postgraduate student and are racialised as black/brown/person of colour this event is an amazing opportunity to learn more about how to do research in liberatory ways. You'll be introduced to a range of amazing research methodologies from art, film, literature to intersectionality and ethno-ontology as research practice. This year’s focus on spirituality, religion and psychology, will provide you with the tools to take on the kinds of research questions that get to the heart of what it means to be human.
If you are an undergraduate student considering a postgraduate degree, this event is also an excellent opportunity to network with graduate students are navigating the post-graduate experience and faculty who are leading by example in the movement towards democratising research and the academy.
The line-up of workshop presenters includes:
Professor Robert Beckford, University of Winchester: "Drinking from our own wells: black religious-cultural resources for revolutionary artistic practice in Documentary Film Production, Contemporary Urban Music and Radio Drama"
Professor Navtej Purewal, SOAS, University of London: "Spiritual resistance to structural oppression: methods and methodologies of empathy and solidarity"
Reverend Natasha Beckles, London Diocese: "Keeping an (Ethical) Eye on the Sparrow: Thinking About Vulnerability, Safeguarding and Pastoral Care in Academic Research"
Dr William Ackah, Birkbeck, University of London: "Learning to Listen: Observation and Interaction with African Diasporic Faith Communities in the US"
Dr. Astrid Jamar, University of Antwerp: "Drawing Dreams as a gate to affective and pluriversal knowledge"
Dr. Elvis Imafidon, SOAS, University of London: "Deconstructing the Received View: Taking Ethno-ontologies Seriously in Research"
Dr. Lubumbe Van de Velde, Director UBYLULU Ltd.: "Tridimensional intersectionality as a method of decolonisation"
Dr. Gifford Rhamie, Lecturer and CEO of Rockstone Consultancy: "Critical Conviviality: Applying a Literary Hermeneutic to Ancient Afroasiatic Texts"
Linos Wengara Magaya, SOAS, University of London: "Zimbabwean Spiritual Music"
Dr. James Caron, SOAS, University of London: "Decolonial Research Methods: Literature as Thought and Practice"
More presenters and full program to follow shortly.
The Summer Institute is being run by the Ebony Initiative, a programme launched in October 2020 by SOAS, University of London. The EI is a unique programme that aims to nurture the development of more Black scholars and decolonised knowledge production at SOAS and in the UK more broadly. The EI works to inspire and encourage Black students from African and Afro-diaspora communities in the UK to pursue postgraduate education and research careers.
This is an in-person only event. Travel bursaries for students living outside London are available. For more information, please contact [email protected]
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
SOAS University of London, 10 Thornhaugh Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00