Important Dates

Factory of Ideas Doctoral School 2026
"Worldmaking at the Digital Threshold: Media, Memory, and Cultural Futures in Times of (De)globalization"

The 2026 Factory of Ideas will take place September 14-23, 2026, in Eldoret, Kenya at the Moi University.

The Africa Multiple Research Centre (Kenya) hosts the event in collaboration with the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), Brazil and the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

The Factory of Ideas 2026 is an international doctoral school that will bring together up to forty PhD candidates from Africa, Latin America, and Europe to critically engage with contemporary transformations in media, technologies, and cultural production. Hosted by the Moi University African Multiple Research Centre, the school is grounded in South–South and South–North intellectual exchange, with particular attention to the historical and contemporary entanglements between Africa, Brazil, and Germany.

Theme

Across the globe, digital media and technologies are reshaping how societies imagine themselves, remember their pasts, and project cultural futures. These transformations unfold unevenly, generating both continuities and ruptures, and producing new tensions between globalization and deglobalization, inclusion and exclusion, creativity and control. The Factory of Ideas Doctoral School 2026 invites participants to critically interrogate these dynamics through interdisciplinary, comparative, and practice-based perspectives.

MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW