Category: Lectures
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Longue Durée Négritude: Thinking the Movement Beyond the Twentieth Century (Hanétha Vété-Congolo)
This talk examines the form of Negritude that has come to shape our scholarly and popular understanding – one shaped by the intellectual and creative contributions of Paulette Nardal and Aimé Césaire of Martinique, Léon‑Gontran Damas of Guyane, and Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal. I first situate Negritude within its layered contexts: the local landscapes…
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From Utopia to Dystopia? An Account of African Liberation Philosophy (José P. Castiano)
The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804), carried by San Domingo’s African descendants, should be placed, in the so-called “universal” philosophy of history, as a turning point into modern times, parallel to and in combination with the French Revolution (1789). In the same way, the accomplishment of the liberation movements and struggles for African nations’ independence (1958–1975) should…
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From Dependency to Liberation (Luis Martínez Andrade)
In the early 1970s, Latin America and the Caribbean witnessed the emergence of Liberation Theology. An intellectual and spiritual expression of Liberation Christianity (M. Löwy), this theological movement had a significant impact on both the epistemological and sociopolitical spheres.A precursor to what is now called the decolonial turn, Liberation Theology criticized the symbolic and material structures…
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A Transcontinental Pendulum: African and Afro-Brazilian Epistemic Continuities (Sanya Osha)
The evolution of African and Afro-Brazilian philosophical discourses has never really trailed the accepted genealogies created by Euro-American philosophy. The path it adopted, rather, is checkered by the seismic ordeals of slavery, colonisation, chronic demotic displacement, cultural alienation and uneven socioeconomic development. Furthermore, it was shaped largely by disruptive scripts of resistance and the often…
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Silence, Exclusion, and Recovery: Feminist Philosophy in Modern India (Priyanka Jha)
Among the philosophical traditions engaging the human condition in Modern India, a significant strand is gendered and feminist thought. This tradition has co-existed within broader philosophical discussions. Yet, larger historical accounts often overlook this tradition. Such omission arises from not recognising women thinkers as philosophers or relegating their work to abstract ‘musings’ rather than sustained…
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Tlamatiliztli: The Wisdom of the Nahua People. Intercultural Philosophy and Right to Land (Osiris González Romero)
The aim of this presentation is the systematic analysis of the concept of wisdom developed by Nahua people of Mexico based on historical sources and archaeological evidence, but also on the knowledge of contemporary indigenous communities and indigenous scholars. The aim of this study is to demonstrate how the cognitive structures embedded in indigenous languages…
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Migrating Ideas from East to West: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay on the Race Question (Priyanka Jha)
This lecture challenges the Eurocentric view that emancipatory ideas such as liberty, equality, and human dignity flowed solely from the West to the non-West. Instead, it argues that intellectual exchange has always been multidirectional and dialogical.By situating race within colonial modernity and anti-colonial struggle, the lecture foregrounds how Indian nationalist and anti-caste thinking engaged in…
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Relating to the Ocean (Monika Rohmer & Liliana Gómez)
This double lecture sheds light on the consequences of taking a fluid, oceanic space as point of departure of this series. While Immanuel Kant has warned us to leave the shores (of experience) to venture into a boundless ocean (of speculative claims), our joint lecture explores the potentials and requirements of relating to the ocean…
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Cosmopolitical Encounters in the Americas and Beyond: Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge, and Philosophy (Falk Parra-Witte)
In numerous traditions and cultures, anthropology has faced premises about humanity, life, truth and reality that challenge modernity’s materialist, rationalist and intellectual paradigms. Be it spiritual domains, cosmic forces or non-human entities, the issue was often seen through epistemic debates about reason, belief and representation pertaining to (un-scientific) worldviews. Since the 1990’s, anthropology took an…
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Nepantla as a Transitional Space: The Colonial and Decolonial Destiny of a Nahuatl Concept (Lorena Grigoletto)
My contribution investigates the genealogy and philosophical meaning of the Nahuatl term Nepantla, tracing it back to its original indigenous philosophy and exploring its subsequent reinterpretations in contemporary postcolonial and feminist thought. Originally meaning “in the middle,” the term Nepantla is first mentioned in a 16th-century chronicle to describe the existential and ontological condition of…