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b'The SOAS Festival of Ideas has a principle aim of fostering research synergies and enabling cross-disciplinary conversations within SOAS and throughout higher education in the West. The festival will celebrate and be shaped around the core theme of \\u2018decolonising knowledge\\u2019. At the heart of the Festival of Ideas is meant to be a debate. We have invited four speakers (Professors Margo Okazawa-Rey, and Yamila Hussein-Shannan and \\u2018FOR\\u2019 decolonising-- with a special message from Professor Linda Tuhiwai Smith. Dr Kehinde Andrews and Dr Brian Alleyne \\u2018AGAINST\\u2019 decolonising higher education).\\n\\nThis Oxford-style debate considers our location \\u2018in the heart of Britain post-Brexit in this period of late-capitalism to ask the burning question, Should we decolonise higher education?\\u2019 Some of the themes our speakers will consider for the debate are:\\n\\nWhat is the meaning of decolonisation?\\nWhy do we need to decolonise?\\nWhose history matters and why?\\nWhat are the structures that impede us?\\nIs there a desynchronisation between academics as knowledge producers and students as customers in higher education? And what role does this changing dynamics play in the decolonising debate?\\nHow do we understand race and racialisation?\\n\\nFind out more at: www.soas.ac.uk/fest-ideas/'