RETHINKING TRADITIONS: SHIFTING PERSPECTIVES IN CULTURAL INTERPRETATION

As the momentum towards decolonising knowledge production grows globally, scholars and practitioners are increasingly questioning the foundations of current methodologies and frameworks that have relegated indigenous and ancient traditions to the margins. Colonial encounters did not merely exploit bodies and lands but fundamentally undermined civilizational knowledge systems—altering what is valued as knowledge itself. In response, there is an urgent call to re-anchor scholarship in ancient traditions, not as relics of the past, but as living repositories of plural epistemologies, ethical worldviews, and robust methodologies. This conference invites a collective turning of attention towards ancient traditions and indigenous knowledge systems as pivotal resources for re-imagining methodology and effecting genuine decolonisation.