academia, conference, university, alternatives, decolonization

Academia modelled by the 15^th century European imagination is dying or dead already. Along with it the academic conferences as well. A new emergence is happening, and it is coming from the margins, civil society, and collaboration among some courageous academics as well. It is coming from the old civilizations - Africa, South America and India as well. I attended three such events in the last month, I prefer to call them not as ‘’conference’’ as much as ‘’gathering’’ of consenting people to be in a gathering.