Tag: Kinyarwanda
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Haunted by Language (International Workshop)
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 lingua francas or an universal language not bound to a specific grammar and context? And in which language can philosophy…
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Forests and Rivers: Rethinking Relation and Representation in Philosophy (Workshop)
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 are both material and symbolic, they call into question the ontological status of the relations between the human and the…
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Korean Philosophy: From a Comparative and Intercultural Perspective (International Conference)
The North American Korean Philosophy Association (NAKPA) is holding its 11th Annual conference at the University of Hildesheim, Germany, on October 5–6, 2026. This year we are pleased to announce that the conference will be hosted by the Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World” at the University of Hildesheim under the auspices of…
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An Outsider’s View: On and In Korean (Confucian) Philosophy (Marion Eggert)
An Outsider’s View: On and In Korean (Confucian) Philosophy Lecture by Prof. Marion Eggert (Ruhr Universität Bochum)Conference Korean Philosophy: From a Comparative and Intercultural Perspective Hildesheim University, 5 October 202610:00–10:45 CEST, Livestream This talk will revolve around the question in how far and to what ends the outsider position was (and is) relevant to and…
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Virtue in Kiswahili: Reading Shaaban Robert as a Philosopher
How might a novel develop a philosophical account of the good life? A new Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry by Dismas A. Masolo takes up this question through the Kiswahili writing of Tanzanian poet and novelist Shaaban Robert. Published on September 24, 2026, “Shaaban Robert’s Virtue Ethics” reconstructs a moral philosophy through works including Adili…
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Rievocare Antigone: spazio, luoghi, porosità (Article by Lorena Grigoletto)
We are delighted to announce the publication of a new article by our fellow Lorena Grigoletto, “Rievocare Antigone: spazio, luoghi, porosità” (“Recalling Antigone: Space, Places, Porosity”), in a collective volume exploring women’s voices from classical antiquity to the age of artificial intelligence. The article examines how theatrical space shapes contemporary reinterpretations of Sophocles’ Antigone, with particular…
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Modern Korean Thinkers: Late 19th Century to 1945
Modern Korean Thinkers:Late 19th Century to 1945 International WorkshopOrganized by Sool Park, Dobin Choi, and Hyojin Lee Fromell 7–8 October 2026University of HildesheimRoom HC.G.2.07 The workshop brings together scholars working on modern Korean thinkers from the late nineteenth century to 1945 — a period in which Korean thought responded to colonial rule, religious reform movements and the…
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Ancient Egyptian Thought in Hildesheim: GloPhi Fellows Visit the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum
On 20 September 2026, a group of GloPhi fellows visited the Egyptian exhibition at Hildesheim’s Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum. Our fellow Amr El Hawary led the tour, bringing his expertise in Egyptian philosophy and culture to a shared encounter with the collection. The visit connected our interest in the diversity of philosophical traditions with an opportunity…
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Remembering Poet & Thinker Tanella Boni (1954–2026)
We are deeply saddened by the death of Tanella Boni, the Ivorian philosopher, poet, and novelist who joined GloPhi as a Fellow in January and February 2025. Her time at the University of Hildesheim gave us the opportunity to engage with a body of work that moved across philosophical inquiry and literary creation. Born in Abidjan,…
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Philosophizing in Portuguese (Language Focus)
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. The philosophy of the Portuguese-speaking part of Africa, that is, countries like Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, and São Tomé und Príncipe,…
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La Côte d’Ivoire à l’aube de l’intelligence artificielle: Comprendre, prévoir, agir, protéger (Ouandé Armand Regnima)
La Côte d’Ivoire à l’aube de l’intelligence artificielle: Comprendre, prévoir, agir, protéger Article by Ouandé Armand Regnima Collection « Questions contemporaines », L’Harmattan, 2026 (English below) Nous avons le plaisir d’annoncer la parution d’un nouvel ouvrage de notre ancien chercheur invité Ouandé Armand Regnima, La Côte d’Ivoire à l’aube de l’intelligence artificielle : Comprendre, prévoir, agir,…
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Decolonizing the Mind and Epistemic Justice: Reparation Beyond the Economic Frame (Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob)
In her presentation “Decolonizing the Mind and Epistemic Justice: Reparation Beyond the Economic Frame,” Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob argues that an adequate conception of reparations must address not only material dispossession but also colonialism’s enduring effects on knowledge, language, cultural identity, and intellectual self-determination. Delivered as part of the international conference “African Philosophy, Reparations, and Epistemic Justice,”…
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Philosophy as Dialogue and Utopia: Philosophizing in Mozambique (José P. Castiano)
In this interview with Professor Anke Graness, GloPhi fellow Prof. José P. Castiano discusses the institutional presence, social function, and future of philosophy in Mozambique. He identifies three principal settings in which philosophy is practiced: secondary schools, where it is taught in grades 11 and 12; universities, whose philosophy programs are largely oriented toward teacher…
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Buddhist Images of the Human and the Anthropocene (Article by Leon Krings)
We are delighted to announce the publication of a new reference work entry by our colleague Leon Krings, “Buddhist Images of the Human and the Anthropocene,” which has appeared in the living edition of the Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene (Springer, Cham). The entry is being published within the encyclopedia’s cluster of entries devoted to images of the…
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Land and Self-determination: A Comparative Analysis (Fernando Márquez Duarte & Rutte Andrade)
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 Philosophies. Their presentation forms part of the conference session on Environmental Ethics. Under the title “Land and Self-determination: A Comparative Analysis of…
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Curriculum Transformation, Post-Comparative Philosophy, and Philosophizing in Sesotho (Lerato Posholi)
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 attention was the epistemological core of the decolonization debate: the contention that knowledge and power are intricately related within the…
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Abya Yala y Latinoamérica: Nombrar para filosofar desde el territorio / Abya Yala and Latin America: Naming to Philosophise from the Territory
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 not merely to question the possibility of adopting a different name for the territory, but also to problematise the very…
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Falk Parra-Witte Joins GloPhi to Explore Indigenous Cosmologies and Nature-Based Philosophizing
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 2026. Falk Parra-Witte is a Colombian-German anthropologist whose research examines human relations with nature within broader cosmological frameworks. Drawing particularly…
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GloPhi Fellows at the Libori Summer School 2026: Women Philosophers and Global Culture (Conference Panel)
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 of Women Philosophers and Scientists will bring together international scholars at Paderborn University from 27 to 31 July 2026. Within the…
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Philosophizing in Igbo (Language Focus)
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 merely a medium for communication, but is foundational to the people’s ontology and ethical systems, and that philosophizing or thinking…
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Domingos da Cruz Joins GloPhi to Explore Liberation Philosophy and Human Rights in Africa
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 philosopher, human-rights scholar, and civil-society activist whose interdisciplinary work connects contemporary political philosophy with questions of liberation, nonviolent resistance, mental…
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African-Brazilian Philosophies: Movements of Resistance, Re-Existence & Enchantment (Adilbênia Freire Machado)
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 as part of the international conference “African Philosophy, Reparations, and Epistemic Justice,” held at the GloPhi Center of the University…
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Transatlantic Resonances as a Site of Philosophical Inquiry (Roundtable)
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 not as a singular, canonical tradition, but as a plural and contested field of knowledge production unfolding across continents, languages,…
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Igbo Philosophy Colloquium: Reclaiming Indigenous Wisdom (International Workshop)
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, people mistakenly believe that “real” philosophy only comes from Western, written books. In this colloquium, we challenge this idea by…
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Fanon at Home, Fanon Abroad: The Paradox of Reception in Martinique (Justin Daniel)
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 his home island’s political and cultural landscape? Drawing on my published work on Fanon’s trajectories and legacies, I propose a…
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Frantz Fanon: Political Phenomenology of Embodiment (Abbed Kanoor)
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 developing them on a scrutinized bodily and psychoanalytic level. Drawing on Peau noire, masques blancs (1952) and a selection of…
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Elmar Holenstein‘s Philosophy Atlas: Translating and Expanding a Global Cartography of Philosophy
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 a linear sequence of canonical names, but as a geographically situated, multilingual, and interculturally entangled history of thought. Through maps,…
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Osiris González Romero Joins GloPhi to Research Native American Philosophies in Mesoamerica
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 2027. Osiris González Romero is a scholar of Native American philosophies, intercultural philosophy, Mesoamerican and Latin American studies, psychedelic studies,…
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The Black Atlantic and the Americas: Cultural Theory and Philosophy (Markus Heide)
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 narratives of modernity have often privileged European and North American experiences while marginalizing the histories of slavery, forced migration, and…
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Philosophizing in Portuguese: African Perspectives (Workshop)
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. The philosophy of the Portuguese-speaking part of Africa, that is, countries like Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, Equatorial Guinea, and São Tomé and Príncipe,…
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Feminist Cartographies in and Beyond Africa: Redrawing the Maps of Women’s Freedom and Agency (Abosede Ipadeola)
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 maps as neutral representations of space, I approach them as epistemic and ontological tools that determine visibility and invisibility, center…
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Cuerpo-Territorio, Reggaeton and Religion: Feminist Approaches in Latin America (Magdalena Andrea Kraus)
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 of feminicide (the murder of women) in criminal law. This lecture will provide an introductory overview of feminist perspectives in…
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African Philosophy, Reparations, and Epistemic Justice (International Conference)
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 thought, and the contemporary challenges facing Africa and its diasporas.The conversations will evolve around reflections on the role of philosophy…
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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…