Knowing Better: Knowledge and Universities

What kind of knowledge is valued and considered legitimate in universities?

What kind of knowledge is valued and considered legitimate in universities? How do norms around academic knowledge include or exclude people as knowers?

Join the authors of the book Universities and Epistemic Justice in a Plural World: Knowing better to consider and discuss the idea of knowledge justice - or epistemic justice, in higher education and beyond.

Universities are, above all, involved in knowledge work. At a critical time for humanity, do we need to reconsider what we value as legitimate types of knowledge? How can we take a broader and more inclusive view of the knowledge that is relevant in academia? How might this increase our options for meaningful actions in the world?

Our event marks the launch of the book Universities and Epistemic Justice in a Plural World: Knowing better. Join the authors - Vanessa Corby and Margaret Meredith of York St John University and Nkosinathi Madondo of Mangosuthu University of Technology, South Africa - to consider how social justice in and through universities might mean recognising more diverse knowers and knowledges. The authors will describe and explain work carried out with students towards knowledge justice in different disciplinary and geographical contexts.

The event will take you on a journey from Barnsley's ex-mining communities to rural South Africa, with opportunity to discuss insights and reflections on epistemic justice and injustice in academia and beyond.

Continue the conversations over light refreshments afterwards.