DAILY PROGRAM (CEST time)

DAY 1 | Wednesday 6th

17:00 Opening | Barbara Potthast (University of Cologne, GER) & Sinah Kloß (University of Bonn, GER)

Introduction | Claudio Pinheiro (UFRJ, BRA & Sephis, NED)

South and North: The politics of scientific liberatory projects and their limits

17:30 Keynote 1 | Prof. Dr. Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford, UK) – ONLINE (CEST -1)

Gender Diversity on Astronomy

19:00 Dinner

DAY 2 | Thursday 7th

09:30 Keynote 2 | Farid Alatas (NUS, Singapore) – ONLINE (CEST +5)

Challenging the Sociological Canon: Critique and Reconstruction

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 PANEL 1 | Ontological Diversity and Politics of Conviviality (Gajendran Ayyathurai, Göttingen University)

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò (Cornell University, US) – Conviviality and the Erasure of African Thinking

Sergio Costa (FU Berlin, Germany) – Convivial Social Sciences: Exploring Transdisciplinary Futures

Friederike Eyssel (Bielefeld, GER) – Diversity & Social Robots: A Social Psychological Perspective

Dhruv Pande (Marwadi University, Rajkot, India) – Post-Colonial Epistemology of Indian Classical Dance: Kathak as Ancient Ontology and Cultural Politik

13:00 Lunch

14:00 PANEL 2 | Religious Studies and Human Sciences (Eloisa Martín, UAEU & UFRJ)

Afe Adogame (Princeton University, US) – Critical Reflections on the Religious-Secular Dichotomy

Rajeev Bhargava (Parekh Institute of Indian Thought, CSDS, Delhi, India) – Pre-religion, Post-religion and the Secular

Nuruddin Al Akbar (Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia) – Beyond De-secularization of Social Sciences: A Case Study of Kuntowijoyo’s Prophetic Social Science Project

Nancy Ammerman (Boston University, US) – ONLINE (CEST -6) – Sociology Studying Religion: Northern Blinders, Southern Knowledge

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 PANEL 3 | Gender, Ethnicity Politics, and Intersectionality (Barbara Potthast, Uni Köln)

Gajendran Ayyathurai (Göttingen University, Germany) – The limits of caste and gender in postcolonial theory of the Global South: Towards a Critical Caste Feminism

Rhoda Reddock (UWI, Trinidad & Tobago) – ONLINE (CEST -6) – Sociology, Feminisms and the Global South: Back to the Future

Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez (University of Gießen, Germany) – ONLINE (CEST -8) – Local Temporal-Spatial Entanglements of Global Inequalities: On Care and Domestic Work in Western Europe

17:30 Coffee Break

19:30 Dinner

DAY 3 | Friday 8th

09:30 Keynote 3 | Mohammed Hassan (The World Academy of Sciences, TWAS, Italy) – ONLINE

Role of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

11:00 Coffee Break

11:30 PANEL 4 | Language, Translation and Circulation of Science (Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Cornell University)

Vera Elisabeth Gerling (Heinrich-Heine-University, Germany) – Translation as Cultural Transfer and Discursive Practice: Self-translation in the Work of Rosario Ferré

Rindon Kundu (Sri Sri University, India) – Rūpāntara/Vivartanam/Tarjumā/Bhāṇgani/Chāyā: Exploring Alternative Notions of Translation from the Global South

Monica-Elena Stoian (University of Göttingen, Germany) and Suresh A. Canagarajah (Pennsylvania State University) – ONLINE (CEST -6) – Semi peripheral scholars negotiating internationalizing institutional strategies with translingual tactics in academic discourse

13:00 Lunch

14:00 PANEL 5 | Politics of Geographical Imagination in Research and Funding (Nina Schneider, Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research)

Asra Mamnoon (Jamia Millia Islamia, India) – ONLINE (CEST +3,5) – Like Banners on the Sea: Muslim Trade Networks and Islamization in India

Wiebke Keim (Freiburg, Germany) – Funding opportunities for South-South research cooperation and their impact on the global social sciences

Vinicius Kauê Ferreira (State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) – Precarious globalisation of social sciences: how perspectives from the South can contribute to critical understandings of the North

Hebe Vessuri (Centre for Social Studies, Venezuela) – ONLINE (CEST -5) – Sustainable research North and South: policies, geographies of knowledge and action

Yasmeen Arif (Delhi School of Economics, India) – ONLINE (CEST -6) – Research Funding, geographical imagination, and diversity

15:30 Coffee Break

16:00 PLENARY SESSION | Inequality and funding priorities in science (Claudio Pinheiro, UFRJ & Sephis)

Volkswagen Stiftung (Hannover, Germany) – Dr. Silke Bertram

Social Sciences Research Council (NYC, USA) – Dr. Alexa Dietrich – ONLINE (CEST-6)

The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP, Brazil) – Dr. Marco Antonio Zago ONLINE (CEST-5)

Closing Remarks

19:00 Dinner