ATLAS 2025 Annual Conference

College of Arts and Humanities | National Foreign Language Center Thursday, February 27, 2025 - February 28, 2025 H.J. Patterson Hall, 2124 and 2130

Join ATLAS for a two day conference exploring the theme of “Agency, Decolonization, and the Politics of Knowledge Production.” With this theme, ATLAS hopes to foster interdisciplinary, critical discussion broadly related to the recent calls for an epistemic break with Western forms of knowledge and control. Keynote Speaker Kwame Edwin Otu, associate professor in the African Studies Program at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, will illuminate how colonial configurations of power and dispossession are reproduced by the Ghanaian nation-state in its e-waste workers.

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Event Dates

Thursday, Feb 27, 2025 9:00 am

02/27/25 09:00:00 02/27/25 18:15:00 America/New_York ATLAS 2025 Annual Conference
Join ATLAS for a two day conference exploring the theme of “Agency, Decolonization, and the Politics of Knowledge Production.” With this theme, ATLAS hopes to foster interdisciplinary, critical discussion broadly related to the recent calls for an epistemic break with Western forms of knowledge and control. Keynote Speaker Kwame Edwin Otu, associate professor in the African Studies Program at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, will illuminate how colonial configurations of power and dispossession are reproduced by the Ghanaian nation-state in its e-waste workers.
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Friday, Feb 28, 2025 8:45 am

02/28/25 08:45:00 02/28/25 17:30:00 America/New_York ATLAS 2025 Annual Conference
Join ATLAS for a two day conference exploring the theme of “Agency, Decolonization, and the Politics of Knowledge Production.” With this theme, ATLAS hopes to foster interdisciplinary, critical discussion broadly related to the recent calls for an epistemic break with Western forms of knowledge and control. Keynote Speaker Kwame Edwin Otu, associate professor in the African Studies Program at the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, will illuminate how colonial configurations of power and dispossession are reproduced by the Ghanaian nation-state in its e-waste workers.
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