Activities
Our activities bring together scholars from around the world to explore philosophical questions in their global, historical, and linguistic dimensions. Through interviews, lectures, and research talks, we engage with the plurality of philosophical traditions and their interrelations—from African and Asian philosophies to intercultural and comparative approaches. Each event contributes to our broader aim of rethinking philosophy as a globally entangled and polylogical practice.
For a better overview of our upcoming events, please have a look at our calendar.
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Forests and rivers are ecosystems that not only harbour extraordinary biodiversity but also function as powerful images and metaphors through which the relationship between humans and the environment is articulated and rethought. As entities that…
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Phenomenology did not begin with a doctrine but with a method: the epoché and phenomenological reduction. Husserl’s rallying invitation – Zu den Sachen selbst! – signalled not merely a theoretical shift but a transformation in how one lives,…
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This summer school investigates healing as a philosophical practice from interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives. We will examine how philosophical traditions across societies, generations, and historical contexts have conceptualized and facilitated healing, particularly at the communal level.Human vulnerability…
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GloPhi Fellows Dr. Fernando David Márquez Duarte and Dr. Rutte Faiza Andrade will present their joint research at the International Conference on Comparative Philosophy, held online on 14–15 August 2026 under the theme African Philosophy in Dialogue with Western and Eastern…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d08GoIRLZF8 In this interview, Lerato Posholi locates the origins of her research interest in the South African student movements #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall, which erupted around the time she began her doctoral studies. What captured her…
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Multilinguality seems to be one of the fundamental conditions of philosophizing on a global scale. But — which language does philosophy speak? The respective mother tongue, a transitional or translational language, any of the world’s…
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This article offers a reflection on the importance of defining the region commonly known as ‘Latin America’ on the basis of the territory and the languages of the Indigenous People who inhabit it. The aim is…
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We are delighted to welcome Dr. Falk Parra-Witte as a Long-Term Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World.” He is part of GloPhi since January, and his fellowship has been extended to December…
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On 30 July 2026, GloPhi Fellows Namita Herzl, Abosede Ipadeola, and Rutte Andrade will present their research on women philosophers, foregrounding oral, narrative, embodied, and collective practices of knowledge production. The Libori Summer School 2026: History…
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During the focus, our fellow, Prof. Dorothy Nwanyinma Oluwagbemi-Jacob, explores the deep connection between the Igbo language and how its speakers understand reality and the spiritual life. She proposes that the Igbo language is not…
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We are delighted to welcome Dr. Domingos da Cruz as a Short-Term Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World.” He joins GloPhi from June to July 2026. Domingos da Cruz is an Angolan…
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In her presentation “Afro-Brazilian Philosophies: Movements of Resistance, Re-Existence, and Enchantment,” Adilbênia Machado examines the contribution of Afro-Brazilian philosophical thought to the decolonization of knowledge and the pursuit of epistemic justice. The lecture was delivered…
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With this roundtable, we conclude the lecture series “Transatlantic Resonances: Philosophical Entanglements between Africa and the Americas.” Over the past three months, seventeen lectures have explored the transatlantic space as a site where philosophy emerges…
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This colloquium explores how the Igbo people have developed their own unique way of doing philosophy highlighting the indigenous resources through which the Igbo people articulate questions of existence, knowledge, ethics, and communal life. Often,…
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This talk explores the reception of Frantz Fanon’s work in Martinique through a paradox: how can a Martinican intellectual become a central figure in global anti-colonial theory and African decolonisation debates while remaining marginal in…
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In this lecture, I address three interrelated aspects: I explore how Fanon both continued and transformed the cultural and poetic concerns of his Martinican mentor and high school teacher, Aimé Césaire, particularly regarding Négritude by…
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This Research Focus is dedicated to the translation, revision, and expansion of Elmar Holenstein’s Philosophie-Atlas: Orte und Wege des Denkens. Holenstein’s Philosophy Atlasremains one of the most ambitious attempts to visualize the history of philosophy not as…
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We are delighted to welcome Dr. Osiris González Romero as a Long-Term Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World” at the University of Hildesheim. He will be part of GloPhi from March 2026 to February…
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This lecture explores the Atlantic world as a space of cultural exchange, mobility, and intellectual transformation. Drawing on concepts such as Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic and recent approaches to transnational and postcolonial studies, it examines how dominant…
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While philosophy in Africa is increasingly recognized today as a part of the world philosophical discourse, the discourse on and in African philosophy mainly focuses on the Anglophone and Francophone parts of Africa south of the Sahara.…
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In this lecture, I engage with cartography, both literally and figuratively. I examine it as a philosophical metaphor for thinking through the conditions of women’s freedom and agency in and beyond Africa. Rather than treating…
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In Latin America, women have been fighting against patriarchal structures of dependency and for social justice for centuries. Based on this practice, numerous thinkers have developed and implemented fundamental theoretical concepts, such as the inclusion…
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Under the aegis of Africa Day, celebrated on May 25 as a symbolic milestone established by the Organization of African Unity in 1963, this event serves as a forum for critical reflection on African philosophical…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Fernando Márquez Duarte will present the three books he has published regarding the Cucapáh Indigenous group: Awí Uyáj Cucapáh: El saber Cucapáh (2023), Manual de la Lengua Cucapáh (2024), Sociolingüística Cucapáh (2025), and discuss them with Diego Rosales and Raymundo Medina.…
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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…
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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.…
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Im Gegensatz zur (post-)cartesianischen Philosophie der Moderne, die von einer homogenen und neutralen Räumlichkeit ausgeht, ist die Phänomenologie für eine Reflexion der Situiertheit prädestiniert, insofern der Ort und die Räumlichkeit grundlegende Bedeutung für die sinnhafte…
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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…
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Prof. Sanya Osha will join the Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World” as a Fellow from March to June 2026. As part of GloPhi’s Yoruba language/philosophy focus, Osha will contribute to the Center’s ongoing work…
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Yorùbá is the language and culture of a people primarily found in Nigeria, Benin, Togo, Sierra Leone, Cuba, and Brazil. Although Yorùbá literature and historical studies have experienced considerable growth over the years, Yorùbá philosophy…
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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…
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Dr. Fernando David Márquez Duarte is joining the Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World” as a Short-Term Fellow from March to July 2026. A Mexican decolonial activist and scholar from Mexicali, Mexico, Márquez Duarte…
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On 4 May 2026, Prof. Dr. Rolf Elberfeld and Dr. Leon Krings presented the Hildesheim Encyclopedia of Philosophical Sources (HePS) at the University of Münster’s Center for Advanced Studies “Access to Cultural Goods in the…
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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…
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The Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World” invites you to a book launch and discussion with Philipp Valentini on his new monograph On the Affective Moods of Being: A Philosophical Exploration of Affects…
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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…
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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…
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It is a truism that the Southern African concept of ubuntu is not a stable concept, or even, despite being typically treated as such, a cultural essence. Rather, it is a historically situated orientation that…
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The study and conceptualization of subjects and concepts across different disciplines in indigenous languages have been gaining significant traction in recent times. To expand academic curricula, challenge rigid disciplinary canons, and decolonize scholarship, scholars are…
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In conversation with Monika Rohmer, research fellow Lindokuhle Shabane discusses his doctoral research, his approach to conceptual decolonization, and his current work on philosophizing in isiZulu.Shabane’s dissertation examines the role of logical contradiction in the…
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The ‘fallist’ student movements of 2015/16 precipitated renewed debates on the issue of decolonization in South African universities. Although the term ‘decolonization’ has a long history and was a framing concept in the political independence…
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This presentation aims to analyze the analytical category of Ameafricanity as a practice of political, cultural, and philosophical resistance in the Brazilian context, situating it within the transatlantic dialogue between Africa and the Americas. In…
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This lecture series takes the transatlantic space between Africa and the Americas as its contextual point of departure to explore the complex processes of philosophical exchange that have emerged on both sides of the Atlantic.…
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Sesotho is a Southern Bantu language spoken in South Africa, where it is one of the 12 official languages, and in Lesotho, as its national language. It is also spoken in Zimbabwe by a minority…
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The School of Arts of the College of Humanities at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) invites you to a guest talk by Dr. Lindokuhle Shabane, UKZN alumnus and postdoctoral fellow at the Center for…
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Am 23. Januar 2026 starb Bernhard Waldenfels im Alter von beinahe 92 Jahren in München. Es lag mir auf der Zunge und einige sprachen es aus: Da ist ein Großer von uns gegangen – ein…
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This bilingual workshop aims to foster sustained exchange between the Korean and German literary fields and to create a space for cultural and historical dialogue through poetry and translation. Bringing together poets and professional translators…