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Obrillant Damus (He/Him)

Associate professor, Université de Sherbrooke
  • Canada

From Linguistic Capital to Regenerative and Restorative Linguistic Capital: The Alliance of Northern and Southern Epistemologies in the Service of Linguistic, Social, and Cognitive Justice

Regenerative and restorative linguistic capital refers to a person’s ability to mobilize, in a professional context, the linguistic, discursive, cultural, and epistemic resources associated with their native language, and to have these recognized as legitimate professional resources...
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Obrillant Damus
Sep 12, 2026
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Regenerative and restorative epistemology (L'Épistémologie régénératrice et réparatrice): the foundation of a new contract for social, cognitive, and ecological justice

By regenerative and restorative epistemology, we mean ways of thinking and knowing that are deeply rooted in the relational ontologies that structure our ways of doing, living, coexisting, and inhabiting, which can be observed in the Global South as well as in the global North.
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Obrillant Damus
Dec 27, 2025

Scientific visit to Poland by Professor Obrillant Damus

Peasant researcher Obrillant Damus will be on a mission in Poland from September 1 to 28, 2025. He has been invited by the Maria Grzegorzewska University (Warsaw, Poland), the UNESCO/Janusz Korczak Chair in Social Pedagogy and the Polish National Commission for UNESCO.
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Obrillant Damus
Jul 01, 2025

EDUCATORE: Wellbeing, research and practice

We cordially invite you to join our 18th UNESCO Chair International Summer School 2025 from 22-26.09.2025. The theme of this year’s Summer School is: EDUCATORE: Wellbeing, research and practice. Register now by completing the form below: https://forms.gle/MCuHPfeVp1yhYbvW8
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Obrillant Damus
Apr 13, 2025

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