First Day – June 30, 2022
| 9:00-10:00 | Registration and Coffee | |
| 10:00-11:00 | OPENING | |
| Recitation of her poem Hidden Lives | Dr. Shahnaz Akhter ESRC Impact and Innovation Research Fellow, Research Fellow Co-Power, Political and International Studies, University of Warwick | |
| Introduction | Safiya Ali PhD candidate, Political and International Studies, University of Warwick Deputy Director, The Global South Initiative | |
| Why do the Marginalized Speak? | Professor Shirin Rai Professor, Politics and International Studies Department, Director of Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development (WICID) | |
| 11:00-12:30 | Session 1: When the Marginalised Speak | |
| From Margin to Centre: Gender Studies in the Arab World | Professor Hoda El Sadda Department of English and Comparative Literature, Cairo University. Co-founder and Chair of the Board of Trustees, Women and Memory Forum | |
| Travelling, Translating, (Un)Learning: A misplaced scholar in the WEIRD world | Dr. Fabrício H. Chagas-Bastos Assistant Professor & EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen | |
| Resisting Invisibility: The Story of the Global South Initiative | Sara Abdel Ghany PhD candidate, Political and International Studies, University of Warwick Founder and Director, The Global South Initiative | |
| Open Discussion | ||
| 12:30-13:30 | LUNCH & NETWORKING SPACE | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Session 2: Art Exhibition: Reclaiming/Imagining the Postcolonial Self | Prodosh Bhattacharya PhD candidate, Theatre and Performance Studies, University of Warwick Saadia Gardezi PhD candidate, Political and International Studies, University of Warwick Mohamed El Shewy PhD candidate, Political and International Studies, University of Warwick |
| Open Discussion | ||
| 14:30-16:30 | Session 3: Queer Film from Asia Screenings from ‘Queer’ Asia Film Festival 2022: Survival | led by Dr J. Daniel Luther Co-Founder of Queer Asia and facilitated by Dr. Somak Biswas, Queer Asia. |
| Open Discussion | ||
| 16:30-17:30 | DRINKS, NIBBLES & NETWORKING SPACE | |
17:30 -19:30 – WELCOME DINNER ON CAMPUS
Second Day- July 1, 2022
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration and Coffee | |
| 09:30-11:00 | Performance of the poem Bol (Faiz Ahmed) | Mohsin-Mohamed Hussain PhD candidate, Political and International Studies, University of Warwick |
| Breaking Academic Ivory Towers: Activist/ Scholar from the Global South – part 1 | ||
| Open Discussion Space | Facilitators and Contributors: Roua Al Taweel PhD Candidate, Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University Qiyuang Chen PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Warwick. Mariana Pater MA in International Development, Political and International Studies, University of Warwick. Asma Abdi PhD Candidate, Political and International Studies, University of Warwick. | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee & Networking Space | |
| 11:30- 12:00 | Breaking Academic Ivory Towers: Activist/ Scholar from the Global South – part 2 | |
| Researching Together Across Borders: Reflections on CAMINAR and the Cross-Regional Study of (Im)mobilities | Dr. Marcia Vera Espinoza Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Global Health and Development, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh | |
| Open Discussion | ||
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch & Networking Space | |
| 13:00-13:45 | Reclaiming Decolonizing the Curriculum – part 1 | |
| Bringing the Global South Into the Classroom A session organised by Undergraduate students at the University of Warwick | Facilitators and Contributors: Aarya Modi (Politics and History) Eli Ross (Politics and History) Jennifer Ukachukwa Amarachi (Politics and International Studies) Kiara Hurst (Politics) Nadia Rauf (Global Sustainable Development and Business Studies) Paulina Siedleczka (Economic, Politics and International Studies) Osamu Miyamae (Politics, International Studies and Global Sustainable Development) | |
| 13:45-14:45 | Reclaiming Decolonizing the Curriculum – part 2 | |
| Impossibility or Inevitability: What Future for the Decolonisation of International Law? Decolonising Dickens: Teaching Perspectives from the Global South | Dr. Mohsen al Attar Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Warwick, currently Visiting Scholar at University College London Dr. Ahmed Dardir Lecturer, Cairo Institute for Liberal Arts and Sciences Founder and Director, The Institute for De-Colonising Theory | |
| 14:45-15:15 | Drinks, Nibbles & Networking Space | |
| 15:15-16:15 | Bus Trip to Leamington Spa | |
| 16:15-17:15 | Imperial and Commonwealth Leamington Spa: A Postcolonial Walking Tour | Dr. Ben Richardson Reader in International Political Economy, Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick |
15:15-16:15- Bus Trip to Leamington Spa
16:15-17:15- Imperial Leamington Spa: A postcolonial tour
The Global South Initiative 