Decolonising knowledge: A performance lecture

The Annual ST Lee Lecture will be delivered by Dr Grada Kilomba.

The lecture forms part of the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies Conference, titled: Decolonising Feminism.

In this lecture, Kilomba will explore forms of decolonising knowledge using printed work, writing exercises, performative narrative, and visual art, as forms of alternative knowledge production. Kilomba raises questions concerning the concepts of knowledge, race and gender: What is acknowledged as knowledge?; Whose knowledge is this?; and Who is acknowledged to produce knowledge?

Kilomba’s project exposes not only the violence of classic knowledge production, but also how this violence is performed in academic, cultural and artistic spaces, which determine both who can speak and what we can speak about.

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