AICRE + Philosophy
Department: Philosophy
Date and Time: November 18, 2020 | 8:00 AM-9:30 AMEvent Location: Zoom
Event Details
Rather than remain silent on race, Western philosophy has often situated African and Black life particularly as degraded, an exception, or outside life itself. What genealogies have enabled and continue this history? What genealogies, both within the academy and without, offer us tools for resistance? Aiming to cultivate vocabularies at precisely this intersection, AICRE+PHILOSOPHY is a year-long series collaboration between The Africana Institute for Creativity, Recognition, and Elevation (AICRE) and the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Irvine.
The first of three virtual lecture and panel discussions, this installment in the series features Paul C. Taylor, Ndumiso Dladla, Hanétha Vété-Congolo, and Jason Campbell in conversation. They will present on their respective work followed by a facilitated discussion with lecturers, graduate students, and faculty within the department.
Register through UCI Humanities here and join us online on November 18th at 8a (PST) for what is sure to be a fantastic, inaugural installment of AICRE+PHILOSOPHY--an emerging space to engage the impact of antiblackness within Western philosophies through shared scholarship, reflection, and discussion.
ABOUT OUR INVITED SPEAKERS:
Paul C. Taylor is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. He received his undergraduate training at Morehouse College and his graduate training at the Kennedy School of Government and at Rutgers University. His research focuses primarily on aesthetics, social and political theory, American philosophy, race theory, and Africana philosophy. His books include On Obama and Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics, which received the 2017 monograph prize from the American Society for Aesthetics.
Ndumiso Dladla has taught philosophy at the University of South Africa for almost a decade. Specialises in African social, legal and political philosophy and has published numerous articles as well as a book in these fields. Understands African philosophy as having a necessary praxeological dimension which in our case has found part of its expression in the political confrontation of the almost exclusively white and European philosophy academy in a South Africa with more than 85 percent of the indigenous people conquered in the unjust wars of colonisation.
A decade later, Dr. Jason J. Campbell remains as one of the first global leaders to utilized distance education. His YouTube channel remains as a great resource for independent philosophical lectures, curated for both domestic and international students alike.
Hanétha Vété-Congolo is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College, Maine and President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. She is affiliated to the Africa Academic Hub, the Africana, the Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx and the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Programs of her institution. She is also Chercheure Associée at the Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, France (CRESEM/GRENAL, Langages et identités). Her scholarship focuses principally on Caribbean and African thought, philosophy, literature, culture and orality and, on discourses by women and about women of the Caribbean and, West and Central Africa. She is author of L’interoralité caribéenne: le mot conté de l’identité (Vers un traité d’esthétique caribéenne) and editor of Le conte d’hier, aujourd’hui : Oralité et modernité (Academia-L’Harmattan, 2014), Léon-Gontran Damas : Une Négritude entière (L’Harmattan, Espaces Littéraires, 2015) and, The Caribbean Oral Tradition (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016).
AICRE+PHILOSOPHY is a PIVOT series sponsored by the School of Humanities Equity Advisor and Special Assistant to the Dean and presented by the Africana Institute for Creativity, Recognition, and Elevation and the Department of Philosophy.