The Cognitive Empire: Struggles for Cognitive Justice and Global Peace
This memorial lecture is inspired by the current student movements, especially the Rhodes Must Fall Movement (RMF) in South Africa and the University of Oxford, which have put the question of cognitive injustices into the global public arena.

The movements were themselves made possible by the definitive entry into ‘westernised’ universities by formerly excluded social groups who immediately became provoked by offensive iconographies, alienating institutional cultures as well as Eurocentric epistemology and curriculum.

This memorial lecture posits that always lurking within liberation struggles has been the cognitive/epistemic question cascading from a reality of imperialism and colonialism that committed not only genocides but epistemicides, linguicides, culturecides, and alienations under the guise of spreading civilization.

Therefore, the subject of cognitive justice is offered as an essential pre-requisite not only for political, economic and cultural freedoms but for global peace.
Date: 17 May 2019, 17:30 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2019)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Venue Details: Leonard Wolfson Auditorium
Speaker: Professor Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni (University of South Africa)
Organising department: Oxford Department of International Development
Organiser: Jo Boyce (University of Oxford, Oxford Dept of International Development)
Organiser contact email address: jo.boyce@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Host: Jo Boyce (University of Oxford, Oxford Dept of International Development)
Part of: Olof Palme Lectures
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Booking required?: Required
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Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Lur Alghurabi