WASS Master Class Prof. dr. Farhana Sultana - How to Decolonize Coloniality in Research

WASS MASTER CLASS How to Decolonize Climate Coloniality in Research Complexities and Strategies by Prof. dr. Farhana Sultana (Syracuse University, USA) is open to Ph.D. candidates, postdocs and other interested WUR researchers, also beyond WASS.

Two or three sets of PhD candidates/researchers will be selected to actually pitch their research around a poster or slides highlighting the issues they encountered and sought to solve when trying to include a decolonial perspective.
Farhana Sultana will first react on those pitches after which all can engage in the follow-up exchange. 

In the registration form you can introduce your research, raise any questions beforehand, and tell whether you like to take the opportunity to pitch (in person only!) your research in 5 minutes and get direct feed-back.

Prof. dr. Farhana Sultana recently edited Confronting Climate Coloniality: Decolonizing Pathways for Climate Justice.
She is an internationally renown interdisciplinary scholar on climate justice, water governance, political ecology, development geography, and decolonizing knowledge. Her work is grounded in critical, feminist, and anti-colonial epistemologies and methodologies, especially interested in issues of feminist fieldwork, positionality, power relations, decolonizing academia, and research ethics.
She will visit WUR 24-25 June as follow-up on her online keynote at the symposium Gender+ Equality in Academia and Research, 22 April 2026.

Farhana Sultana’s visit is made possible by:
* Financial support of WASS, WUR staff group on decolonizing education, WUR Gender+ Equality Plan, SSG-KTI and ESG-WRM.
* Organisers Margreet van der Burg (SSG-KTI), Birgit Boogaard (SSG-KTI) and Bert Bruins (ESG-WRM)