Center for Advanced Studies, Hildesheim University
Call for Participants, Deadline May 1, 2025 Summer School 2025 | August 25-29, 2025 Organizers: Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola / Nikitta Dede Abena Adjirakor / Anke Graness For thousands of years, storytelling has remained an integral part of human evolution, helping to make sense of our existence and environment. Stories have been told to educe deep and compelling […]
Kai Kresse & Abdilatif Abdallah: Swahili Philosophical Discourse in East African Lifeworlds: Introductory Reflections and Case Studies from Contemporary Poetry Part of the Lecture Series: Philosophizing in African Languages This collaborative lecture – between an esteemed Swahili poet and a German anthropologist/philosopher – shall introduce the audience to the ways in which philosophical reflections have […]
Part of the Lecture Series: Philosophizing in African Languages Abstract: For most of the twentieth century, the debate about the production of knowledge in Africa centered on the colonial library and writings in European languages. There was little acknowledgment that a whole world of debate has been going on vigorously and extensively in other languages […]
Part of the Lecture Series: Philosophizing in African Languages Abstract: The verb to wrestle, as the German verb ringen, refers to a physical activity in which one aims at wrestling an opponent to the ground and to the cognitive endeavour of wrestling with a problem or a difficulty. Philosophical texts in Wolof can be read […]
Part of the Lecture Series: Philosophizing in African Languages More information coming soon.
Part of the Lecture Series: Philosophizing in African Languages More information coming soon.
Part of the Lecture Series: Philosophizing in African Languages Abstract Yoruba is the language and culture of a people primarily found in Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Cuba, and Brazil. Their philosophical ideas prominently feature in their culture, language, and traditions. In this lecture, I will explore how the Yoruba people have conceptualized existence, morality, knowledge, […]
Chantal Gishoma: La parole comme expression épistémologique dans la philosophie d’Alexis Kagame (Speech as an epistemological expression in Alexis Kagame’s philosophy) or: La poétique du non-humain chez Alexis Kagame: une philosophie de la résistance (Alexis Kagame’s poetics of the non-human: a philosophy of resistance) Part of the Lecture Series: Philosophizing in African Languages More information coming […]
Part of the Lecture Series: Philosophizing in African Languages More information coming soon.
Part of the Lecture Series: Philosophizing in African Languages More information coming soon.
Summer School 2025 | August 25-29, 2025 Call for Participants, Deadline May 1, 2025 Organizers: Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola / Nikitta Dede Abena Adjirakor / Anke Graness For thousands of years, storytelling has remained an integral part of human evolution, helping to make sense of our existence and environment. Stories have been told to educe deep and compelling […]