Epistemologies from the Margins
Location:
Online only
Date/time
Tue 21 April 2026
11:15 - 12:45
This is the final event of the Decolonial Research and Methodologies Seminar Series organised at Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh. The series provides a critical forum on law, race, and colonial legacies and fosters constructive dialogue across the university and beyond.
In this event, we aim to bring together law students, postgraduate, early career researchers and academics across disciplines like law, education, social and political studies to reflect on how knowledge is shaped, challenged and reimagined from the margins.
The discussion will explore the tensions of developing a scholarly voice within dominant frameworks, navigating interdisciplinary work and engaging with forms of knowledge that resist easy translation into conventional academic structures. It intends to open up the space to think critically about the responsibilities and challenges of working with the history and ongoing effects of coloniality.
About the speakers
Dr Rohini Sen is an Associate Professor at Jindal Global Law School. She works at the intersection of Law and Humanities, teaching and researching on Critical Approaches to International Law (CAIL), critical pedagogy, queer and feminist approaches, decolonial and post-colonial feminisms.
Dr Ahmed Memon (Cardiff University) is an interdisciplinary scholar interested in the intersections of international law, global governance, history and decolonial theory/practice. He is inspired by how sociology, and political geography in the traditions of Indigenous, black radical, anti-caste and anti-colonial community practice interrupt, negotiate and negate orthodox euro-centric vocabularies of legal thought. He also engages in grounded practices on decolonizing the University, specifically with the aim of developing anti-racist and anti-sexist approaches and tools for teaching pedagogy, research, and writing about law within academic practice.
If you have any questions or would like more information, please feel free to reach out to:
Bhavinee Singh, B.Singh-9@sms.ed.ac.uk
Matilde Masetti Placci, M.Masetti-Placci@sms.ed.ac.uk