Oral Traditions - Program

Symposium
The Status of Oral Traditions in the History of Philosophy: Methodological Considerations

September 7-9, 2023, University of Hildesheim
Kulturcampus Domäne Marienburg, 31141 Hildesheim, Domänenstr. 46, Hohes Haus, Aula
 

- Program -

September 7th, 2023

12:30 pm Lunch buffet (Speakers and Chairs, Room 202)

1:30 pm – Welcome address: Anke Graness / Rolf Elberfeld (Reinhart Koselleck Project “Histories of Philosophy in a global Perspective)

Session 1, 2–4 pm
Chair: Gerald Hartung (Wuppertal)
Brian Burkhart (University of Oklahoma, USA): Listening to the Voices of the Land: The Intersections of Land and Orality in Indigenous Philosophy
Fausto César Quizhpe Gualán (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador): Indigenous Philosophy: Concrete Subject, “Object”, Epistemic Situation and Method

4–4:30 pm Coffee break

Session 2, 4:30–6:30 pm
Chair: Martina Kopf (Wien)
Oriare Nyarwath (University of Nairobi, Kenya): Examining the Relationship between Philosophy and Orality in African Philosophy
Gail Presbey (University of Detroit Mercy, USA): Alice Lakwena as Peace Philosopher: Her Criticisms of War and Greed

6:30–6:45 pm Short Break

6:45 – 7:45 pm Book presentation: Rethinking Sage Philosophy (Kresse/Nyarwath, 2023); The Life and Thought of H. Odera Oruka (Presbey, 2023)

8 pm Dinner at the “Zur Scharfen Ecke” (Speakers and Chairs)

September 8th, 2023

Session 3, 9–11 am
Chair: Alena Réttova (Bayreuth)
Edwin Etieyibo (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa): Philosophy in African Dance
Anna-Christina Engels-Schwarzpaul & Albert L. Refiti (Vā Moana Research Cluster, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand): Salutations to the mountain: Towards a Samoan lived philosophy of oratory, ritual practices and buildings

11–11:30 am Coffee break

Session 4, 11:30–1:30 pm
Chair: Michael Eze (Leiden)
Carl Mika (University of Canterbury, New Zealand): Orality and the All: Wananga and its philosophical implications
Hanétha Vété-Congolo-Leibnitz (Bowdoin College, USA): Unearthing Philosophy Through African and Caribbean Philosophy: Methodological Considerations

1:30–2:30 pm Lunch break

Session 5, 2:30–4:30 pm
Chair: Nadja Germann (Freiburg)
John and Mary Jo Maraldo (University of North Florida, USA): Storytelling: examples of what it discloses, what it preserves, and what it conceals for histories of philosophy. A dialogue by John Maraldo and Mary Jo Maraldo
Dismas A. Masolo (University of Louisville, USA): On Record: Which Record? Whose Record? The Location of Thought and its Expressivity

4:30–5 pm Coffee break

Session 6, 5–6 pm
Chair: Yoko Arisaka (Hildesheim)
Juul van der Laan (Independent film director and researcher, The Netherlands): Documentary "Sophie" on philosopher Sophie Bọ́sẹ̀dé Olúwọlé

7 pm Dinner at the “Zur scharfen Ecke” (Speakers and Chairs)

September 9th, 2023

Session 7, 9–11 am
Chair: Albert Kasanda (Bayreuth)
Kai Kresse (Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient and Freie Universität Berlin): ‘Philosophizing as intellectual practice: the oral performance of verbal art that makes people think…’ Case studies from the Swahili context, and African Studies more widely
Bruce B. Janz (University of Central Florida, USA): Orality as Philosophical Performance

11–11:30 am Coffee break

Session 8, 11:30–1pm
Chair: Anke Graness (Hildesheim)
Final discussion: Results of our discussions and how to proceed

1 pm Lunch at the “Hofcafé” (Speakers and Chairs)

Supplementary Program, 3-4 pm

Mary Jo Maraldo (Artist, USA): "Visuality, Pure and Worded: A Dialogue of Images between Japanese Calligraphy and Modern Art" A slide lecture

Program of the Conference in PDF

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