This article discusses the insights emanating from the conference Resisting Intellectual Imperialism and Epistemic Violence: Towards Autonomous Knowledge Production, which, organized by the Decolonial Studies Program of the University of the Philippines Center for Integrads and Development Studies, took place from Nov 9-10 2023, as well as from the wider literature on Academic Dependency, Intellectual Imperialism, and Autonomous Social Sciences, that form the theoretical background of the conference.