Name: Epistemic redistributions in the Global South Classroom: Soukaina Chakkour and Kolar Aparna
Start: 2025-11-19T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-11-19T14:00:00+02:00
Location: Unioninkatu 33, FI-00170 Helsinki, Suomi

Epistemic redistributions in the Global South Classroom: Soukaina Chakkour and Kolar Aparna

Seminar information
🕐When: Wednesday, 19.11.2025, 13:00-14:00 (UTC +2 / Helsinki time)
📍Where: Room 247 (2nd floor), Unioninkatu 33 (inner courtyard), you can also join in by Zoom (see link below)
This event is organized by EuroStorie in collaboration with Co-imagine.

"Epistemic redistributions in the Global South Classroom"
Soukaina Chakkour (Al Akhawayn University, Morocco)
in conversation with Kolar Aparna (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Abstract
This conversation aims to explore the dynamics of the global south classroom beyond extractive logics and rationality of the traditional academy, which often treats Global South as a passive object of knowledge, and a passive recipient of knowledge. Educators from/in the Global South engage in the double labor of teaching Western-centric frames of knowledge while simultaneously creating space for local and counter epistemologies. This talk engages in a conversation about Global South pedagogies from a location-based and positionality-based approach. It aims at reconceptualizing the Global South/Postcolonial classroom as a deliberate and intentional space for creating accountability and highlights especially how epistemic agency is actively redistributed within the Global South classroom. We revisit the question, “When in the world is your classroom?” posed by the speakers during the International Summit on Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences in the Global South at the School of Social Sciences, Arts, and Humanities Al Akhawayn University, Morocco in 2024, alongside the questions of Where, Who, Why, What of the Global South Classroom addressed during the Summit.
Find abstracts, Zoom link and more on the event page: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/law-identity-and-the-european-narratives/news-and-events/research-seminar-soukaina-chakkour-in-conversation-with-kolar-aparna-19112025