The Department of Philosophy at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) cordially invites you to the 1st Philosophy Lecture Series. Topic: Why Epistemic Decolonisation in Africa? Date: Thursday, 4th July 2024 Time: 11.00 am WAT Speaker: Professor Veli Mitova, Director, African Center for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Register in […]
Moments from the Disabling Normativities Conference
As regular readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY know, last week I participated in the Disabling Normativities Conference at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. The conference, which was organized by the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, was outstanding, in a variety of ways: the sessions were interesting and provocative, the discussions amongst participants between […]
CFP: The Race-Religion Constellation: Entanglements in African Political Communities (deadline: Sept. 21, 2019)
Special Issue of The South African Journal of Philosophy (July 2020) Guest Editors: Josias Tembo and Anya Topolski The reality of political communities in Africa cannot be understood properly independently of colonial racialization. The formation of colonial political communities on the African continent, as Fanon has shown, was premised on a Manichean world view, a […]
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