Streaming today at 2 p.m. (CEST)!
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South-South Circulation of Ideas? The Uptake of Decolonization in South African Universities
Lecture by Lerato Posholi
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Generative Contradictions:
Logic, Language, and Philosophizing in isiZulu
Interview with Lindokuhle Shabane
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South-South Circulation of Ideas? The Uptake of Decolonization in South African Universities
Lecture by Lerato Posholi
Hildesheim University & Live Stream
21 April 2024, 2 p.m. (CEST)
Transatlantic Resonances: Philosophical Entanglements between Africa and the Americas
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The XXVI World Congress of Philosophy
“Philosophy: A Place for Open Dialogue”
August 16-23, 2028
University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus
Japan
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Ameafricanity and Black Resistance in the Transatlantic Context
Lecture by Rutte Andrade
Hildesheim University & Live Stream
14 April 2024, 2 p.m. (CEST)
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Lecture Series “Transatlantic Resonances: Philosophical Entanglements between Africa and the Americas”
Transatlantic Resonances: Philosophical Entanglements between Africa and the Americas
Lecture Series 2026 | Hildesheim University | Tuesdays, 2 p.m. (CEST) | Glophi Center, Live Stream
Organized by Anke Graness, Abbed Kanoor and Monika Rohmer
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Thanks to everyone involved for a great workshop on possible futures of philosophizing and the transformation of the philosophy curriculum!
Talks within the Ambivalence of Africa, Her Languages, and Philosophising in isiZulu – An Outside Perspective
Lecture by Lindokuhle Shabane
March 12, 2026, 6 p.m. (CET)
University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), South Africa
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Many thanks to all participants of our Early-Career Workshop 2026 –"Futures of Philosophizing in Africa"!
It was a great extended weekend with research project presentations, intensive discussions, writing exercises, and Q&A sessions with experts in research and publishing.
Our Early-Career Workshop "Futures of Philosophizing in Africa" has officially begun! We welcome Aderonke Adeyinka Ajiboro, Bolaji Olaronke Akanni, Eyasu Berento Assefa, Noah Opeyemi Balogun, Nolwandle Lembethe, and Taye Birhanu Taressa and look forward to the discussions!
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Early-Career Workshop for African Researchers in Philosophy: Futures of Philosophizing in Africa
Part of the Workshop "Futures of Philosophizing"
March 6-9, 2026, Universität Hildesheim
Organized by Abosede Ipadeola und Monika Rohmer
Program now online: glophi.com/2025/08/06/c...
Nie das Ende, immer nur der neue Anfang:
Nachruf auf Bernhard Waldenfels
Barbara Schellhammer (Zentrum für Globale Fragen)
Polyglot, Artikel #4
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We are pleased to welcome Dr. Falk Parra-Witte as a new Long-Term Fellow. Dr. Falk Parra-Witte is a Colombian-German anthropologist whose work centers on understanding human ecology (relations to nature) within a cosmological context.
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Healing as a Philosophical Practice
Summer School, 24 – 28 August 2026
Call for Participation Deadline: April 1, 2026
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We are pleased to welcome Dr. Priyanka Jha as a new Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World” (GloPhi). At GloPhi, Dr. Jha advances her research project “Us and the World: Gendered Intellectual History of India and South Asia.”
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Bilingual Workshop on German–Korean Poetry Translation
International Workshop, Hildesheim University
23–24 March 2026, KC. 50.202 (Hohes Haus)
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Korean Philosophy: From a Comparative and Intercultural Perspective, International Conference
October 5–6, 2026, Hildesheim University
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Organized by The North American Korean Philosophy Association (NAKPA) under the auspices of Prof. Sool Park.
We mourn the passing of Maria Paula Meneses (1963–2026), one of the most influential African anthropologists and postcolonial scholars of her generation. Meneses was a leading voice in debates on legal pluralism, memory, postcolonialism, and the Epistemologies of the South.
As part of the Research Focus Philosophies in Africa, our Center for Advanced Studies is launching its first Language Focus under the title Philosophizing in isiZulu. Coordinated by Lindokuhle Shabane, the focus explores isiZulu as a medium of philosophical articulation.
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Can a seventeenth-century Ethiopian thinker reshape the global history of philosophy? In our latest interview, Jonathan Egid and Fasil Merawi discuss Zera Yacob, the Hatäta, modernity and rationality, and the future of African philosophy.
Full interview: youtu.be/UFONVjBcHCQ
New Open-Access Article: Philosophising in Wolof: Beyond Translation (Monika Christine Rohmer, Phronimon Vol. 26, 2025)
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We are pleased to welcome Prof. Rutte Faizah Andrade as a Long-Term Fellow at our Center.
Prof. Andrade specializes on African philosophy, Afro-diasporic thought, and Afrocentric epistemologies.
For more information, please follow this link:
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Prof. Mogobe Ramose reflects on philosophy as a lived ethical practice grounded in Ubuntu. He challenges epistemic injustice and the silencing of indigenous languages, calling for a way of philosophizing attentive to experience, truthfulness, and justice. youtu.be/iJZLhkbG4xI
New publication by Nikita Dhawan at Duke University Press:
Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization
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The article can be accessed here: dx.doi.org/10.12795/Fed...
We had the pleasure of hosting a research talk with Lorena Grigoletto on her recent article “Rhythm, Contagion, ‘Cosmic Race’: New Paths of Mimesis in Post-Colonial Mexico,” an exploration of José Vasconcelos’ rereading of ancient Pythagoreanism and the notion of mimesis in a postcolonial context.
Futures of Philosophizing:
On the Transformation of the Philosophy Curriculum
International Workshop
March 10th to 13th, 2026, University of Hildesheim
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Anke Graness and Monika Rohmer examined African Feminist Philosophies such as intersectionality (Awa Thiam, Kimberlé Crenshaw), African womanism (Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi), nego-feminism (Obioma Nnaemeka), STIWA feminism (Molara Ogundipe-Leslie), Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, Hudā Shaʿrāwī and Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī
Prof. Anke Graness' lecture traced philosophical engagements with slavery across European, Islamic, and African traditions, with a central focus on Aḥmad Bābā of Timbuktu and his Miʿrāj al-ṣaʿūd, a powerful early critique of the racialized enslavement of free Muslims from Sub-Saharan Africa.