Department of Philosophy, University of Fort Hare

18/10/2024

I had so much fun on Wednesday! For those who might’ve missed the Public Lecture… the link is below.

The Chair in Identities and Social Coehsion in Africa at Nelson Mandela University hosted a public Lecture by Prof Siseko Kumalo on Epistemic ALterity and th...

14/10/2024

Excited to be giving this at Nelson Mandela University on Wednesday.
Zoom details are on the poster. Please join us if you can.

14/10/2024

Join us for our Philosophy Colloquium!

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17/05/2024

Join us if you are in Alice! Apart from being an incredibly generous and caring person, Prof Molefe is an outstanding African philosopher, and this event celebrates his 10 book milestone.

08/02/2024

The Black Archive Visual Podcast has finally released the last set of episodes. It was one of those experiences that really challenged me and made me think differently about what it means to develop knowledge and do so in different ways. I hope to take season 2 of this series at Cambridge University in the coming months...

This conversation was with the wonderful Assistant Professor Darien Po***ck of Boston University. Truly one of the best conversations I've had on that series. I enjoyed all of them, but this one was one of my favourites for sure!

Reflecting on our guests’ paper ‘Self-determination, Kinship Networks, and the Possibility of International Black Commonwealth’, we go back to an older quest...

01/11/2023

Philosophy Colloquium Program 2023

First Semester (Wednesdays, usually 13:00-14:00)

March 8 - Aragorn Eloff, Werner Smith – Rethinking the mind: a conversation on psychedelic philosophy
March 15 – Benda Hofmeyr – Living to Work in the Age of Control: Foucault and Governmentality
April 19 – Elvis Imafidon – Exploring Non-textual Repositories of Philosophical Knowledge_ Prospects and Challenges from Sub-saharan Africa -
April 26 – Ada Agada – God, the Limitation Thesis, and a Limited Creator's Moral Responsibility
May 3 - Thierry Ngosso – The causality principle and the climate responsibility of firms as political actors

Second Semester Colloquia

August 2 (15:00) Tsenay Serequeberhan - Thingification, Heidegger, and the Struggle for African Freedom
16th August (15:00) Vincent Lloyd - on Black Dignity
20th September (13:00) Ward Jones - Post-Truth or Post-Trust Politics?
27th September (13:00) Helen Lauer - The Vagaries of Consensus
18th October (13:00) Minka Woerman - Transformations and the Re-Membering of Meaning

01/11/2023

11th Annual Wild Coast Philosophy Symposium
Theme: Recognition
Crawfords Beach Lodge, Chintsa
4 November 2023
Organisers: Abraham Olivier and Chris Allsobrook (University of Fort Hare)

PROGRAMME

Session 1
09:00 – 9:40: Colby Dickinson: Seeing beyond being seen: The politics of recognition and Intimacy (Loyola University of Chicago)
Respondent: Justin Sands (St Augustine College)

10:45 – 10:25: Andrea Hurst: The desire for recognition, the power struggle and its deactivation by love (Nelson Mandela University)
Respondent: Bianca Jewel Phillips (Rhodes University)

Session 2
11:00 – 11:40: Pedro Tabensky: Fanon on Recognition (Rhodes University)
Respondent: Amara Esther Chimakonam (University of Fort Hare)

11:45 – 12:35: Lemogang Modisakeng: The Subject Dualistic Nature of a Bi/Multilingual Self: Is Translation a Sufficient Act of Recognition? (Nelson Mandela University)
Respondent: Vanessa Freerks (University of Fort Hare)

Session 3
13:30 – 14:10: Motsamai Molefe: Ubuntu Ethics, Umuntu and Moral Recognition (University of Fort Hare)
Respondent: Karabo Maiyane (Nelson Mandela University)

14:15 – 14:55: Dimpho Maponya: Advancing the Recognition of Women in African Philosophy (Rhodes University)
Respondent: Elphus Muade (University of Fort Hare)

Session 4:
15:15–15:55: Lindsay Kelland: I see you, you see me: recognition in the contemporary South African academy (Rhodes University)
Respondent: Shepherd Mpofu (UNISA)

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01/11/2023

30/11/2022

Please join us this Friday! Email [email protected] for the link.

19/04/2022

DAY ONE

DAY ONE OF TEN of the Yoga challenge. Either click on the link and post your selfie (ON THE COMMENTS for the yoga challenge on the UFH Gender Equity Page on Insta or FB or Twitter) after doing to yoga in the comfort of your own home, OR join us at 5pm today - Sports Complex in Alice, ABC Hall in East London.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPK9WNtpBgk&ab_channel=YogaWithAdriene

08/04/2022

As a Department, Faculty and Institution - we are pleased to be hosting Dr. Siphiwo Mahala next week Wednesday as he launches his book at his Alma Mater.