InterPhil: CFP: Contributions to African Phenomenology
__ Call for Papers Theme: Contributions to African Phenomenology Type: International Colloquium Institution: University of Fort Hare University of Pretoria North-West University Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa (CPSA) Location: Chintsa (South Africa) Date: 5.–6.3.2020 Deadline: 30.9.2019 __ African phenomenology is an emerging subfield within the broader domain of African and Africana philosophy. The phenomenological method, with its various approaches to studying the meaning of human experience, has been a cornerstone in the thought of African Philosophers such as Paulin Hountondji, Tsenay Serequeberhan and D.A. Masolo, and proponents of Africana Philosophy such as Frantz Fanon, Lucius Outlaw and Lewis Gordon. While this philosophical approach has most evidently informed such thinkers, their contributions are often ‘siloed’, separated from, or neglected in the larger discursive terrain of African/Africana philosophy, postcolonialism/decolonisation, and the global phenomenology movement. The purpose of this colloquium is to explore contributions of African phenomenology to African/Africana philosophy, postcolonial/decolonial discourse, and deliberations within the international phenomenological community. Format: - The event will be centered around four keynote speakers, speaking individually, and with two response papers tailored to their specific paper, thus 4 Keynotes with 8 respondents. - Thereafter, a moderator will generate discussion between the keynotes and respondents, and eventually will conduct a Q session with the general audience. - Each keynote will be given 60 minutes to speak and the respondents will be given 15 minutes each (30 minutes in total). The general Q will last 30 minutes. Each session will last approximately 120 minutes. Potential Research Output: The organizing committee has discussed a possible special issue or anthology that will publish the keynote speakers’ papers along with responses. It may conclude with the keynotes formally responding to said responses, or perhaps a transcription of a roundtable discussion. Confirmed speakers: 1. Prof. Lewis Gordon, University of Connecticut, USA 2. Prof. Paulin Hountondji, University of Louisville, USA 3. Prof. Rozena Maart, UKZN, RSA 4. Prof. Achille Mbembe, Wits, RSA Papers should be made available by 15 January 2020 for distribution to and selection by respondents. Confirmed respondents: 1. Dr. Chris Allsobrook, University of Fort Hare, RSA 2. Prof. Patrick Eldridge, University of New Brunswick, Canada 3. Prof. Andrea Hurst, NMU, RSA 4. Prof. Bernard Matolino, UKZN, RSA 5. Prof. Uchenna Okeja, Rhodes University, RSA 6. Prof. Mogobe Ramose (summative respondent), University in Ga-Rankuwa, RSA Submission: A few slots remain for respondents. Those who are interested in being a respondent, please submit a motivation to aoliv...@ufh.ac.za or abrahamoliv...@gmail.com by 30 September 2019. Venue: Crawford Beach Lodge in Chintsa, South Africa Organisers: Abraham Olivier (UFH), Justin Sands (NWU), Malesela J. Lamola (UP), Keo Mbebe (UP) Program frame: Day 1: 14:00-14:15 Opening 14:15-16:15 Session one: Achille Mbembe 17:00-19:00 Session two: Rozena Maart Day 2 9:30-11:30: Session three: Paulin Hountondji 13:00-15:00 Session four: Lewis Gordon 15:30-16:30 Session five: Panel discussion with keynotes and summative response by Mogobe Ramose 16:30 Close Contact: Abraham Olivier Department of Philosophy University of Fort Hare Chris Hani Building East London South Africa Email: aoliv...@ufh.ac.za __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
InterPhil: CONF: Conference Announcement
__ Conference Announcement Theme: Decolonising Political Concepts Type: International Conference Institution: Centre for Citizenship, Civil Society and Rule of Law (CISRUL), University of Aberdeen Location: Aberdeen, Scotland (United Kingdom) Date: 19.–20.9.2019 __ Topic Postcolonial and decolonial thinkers and activists have spent the last decades unravelling the intellectual, political and structural legacies of colonialism and ongoing coloniality in our contemporary world. Political concepts are part of these legacies. The way academics define and use them is generally mediated by traditions of political thought marked by and even framed by coloniality. However, and despite the increasing and far-reaching work of postcolonial and decolonial research, this aspect of political concepts is still too often silenced or ignored in some academic settings. Throughout this conference, we aim to engage with the coloniality of political concepts, and with how ontological, epistemological and political closures and exclusions are reproduced through their use. Besides, we seek to open up collective and collaborative reflections on how to expose, challenge and overcome the colonialities still permeating ideas and research by questioning the tools that political concepts are. We aim to engage with non-Western and indigenous political thought and experiences, exploring alternative uses and what decolonised political concepts might look like. We see such dialogues as necessary in order to find ways of living together that acknowledge and respect plurality and allow for genuinely “postcolonial” academic and political contexts. Programme Thursday 19th September 09.25 – 09.40 Welcome and Opening: Marie Wuth and Valentin Clavé-Mercier 09.40 – 11.10 Decolonial Horizons – Revealing the Coloniality of Knowledge and Power Karim Barakat (American University of Beirut): “History and Universal Politics” Chika Mba (University of Ghana): “Achieving Global Justice through Decolonising Human Dignity” Minoo Alinia (Södertörn University): “Selected knowing and the privileged ignorance” 11.30 – 13.00 Feeling Coloniality – Bodies, Sexuality and Agency Rachel Spronk (University of Amsterdam): “Decolonising sexuality, disrupting epistemologies, shattering the subject” Cecilia Cienfuegos (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid): “Enfleshed Political Violences. Rethinking Sexual Violence from a Postcolonial Critique” Henrike Kohpeiß (Freie Universität Berlin): “Decolonising Agency” 14.00 – 15.20 Keynote by Ritu Vij (University of Aberdeen): “The Universal Subject of Precarity: A Decolonial Reading” 15.20 – 16.20 Religion and Politics – A Colonial Dualism? Mitsutoshi Horii (Shumei University & Chaucer College): “Coloniality of 'Politics': The US-Japan Relations since 1853” Anthony Zirpoli (University of Aberdeen): “The Religiosity of Secularism and the Political form of Faith” 16.40 – 18.00 Keynote by Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Birkbeck University of London): "Funk Manifesto for a Decolonised Image (With a Plea for a Decolonial International)" Friday 20th September 09.30 – 10.30 Subverting Coloniality – Decolonising the Language of Resistance Laura Galian Hernandez (Universidad de Granada): “Decolonizing Anarchism: Experiences from the South of the Mediterranean” Sheheen Kattiparambil (University of Leeds): “Fascism, Communalism and Resistance: Speaking Muslim in India” 10.30 – 11.30 Indigenous Conceptualisations – Articulations, Deployments and Negotiations Valentin Clavé-Mercier (University of Aberdeen): “Tino Rangatiratanga: A Decolonial Māori Politics of Sovereignty” Paul Rosier (Villanova University): “The Political Discourse and Diverse Dimensions of Native American Citizenship” 11.50 – 13.20 Beyond Borders – Migration and Re-thinking Citizenship Ricarda Hammer (Brown University): “The Coloniality of Citizenship: Recovering Claudia Jones, Anticolonial Imaginations and Lost Thinking beyond the Nation State” Shahin Nasiri (University of Amsterdam): “The Idealised Subject of Freedom and the Refugee” Jasmine Gani (University of St Andrews): “(In)hospitality in Modernist Thought: Rethinking Hospitality through Decolonial Political Theology” 14.20 – 15.50 Lecture and workshop with Julie Cupples (University of Edinburgh): “Decolonising the Westernised University” 16.10 – 17.00 Closing Discussion Academic coordinators: Marie Wuth (marie.w...@abdn.ac.uk) Valentin Clavé-Mercier (valentin.clave-merc...@abdn.ac.uk) Conference website: https://cisrul.blog/seminarsandevents/decolonising-political-concepts/ __ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __
