Indigenous Epistemologies and Artistic Imagination

Seeking to create links between non-Western knowledge, indigenous epistemologies and artistic imagination, the conference proposes an approach based on what Rosi Braidotti calls “non-Western indigenous humanism” and “indigenous knowledge systems”. How are we to interpret the fact that very few institutional networks have solidified around feminist/queer/migrant/poor/decolonial/diasporic humanities? What are the real implications of these deterritorializations for the subject of post-human knowledge and its disciplinary practice? How are we to negotiate the paradoxical confluence that tenses, on one hand, a certain phagocytization of “other” epistemologies by the (Western) academy and on the other the will – or need – of some communities to gain ground in the social sphere to make their demands visible?
These are some of the main issues sought to be discussed through a transdisciplinary approach in the framework of what could be called a “rhizomatic field of contemporary knowledge production”.