12 July, 2012. Eden Grove Red. 7pm.
Title: "Frantz Fanon on the Subject
of Emancipation".
2. Thinking Africa Colloquium: Ubuntu:
Curating the Archive
Dates: 13, 14 and 15 July 2012
Venue: Continuing Education Centre (CEC)
Time: 9am-5pm
With presentations by:
- Lewis
Gordon: An Introduction to Africana Philosophy (Cambridge UP);
Of Divine Warning: Disaster in a Modern
Age” with Jane A. Gordon (Paradigm).
- M.B.
Ramose: African Philosophy through uBuntu (Mond Books), “The
Philosophy of uBuntu and uBuntu as
Philosophy” (Oxford SA).
- Ama Biney: The Political and Social
Philosophy of Kwame Nkrumah (Palgrave)
- M.F.
Murove: (ed.) African Ethics: An Anthology of Comparative and
Applied Ethics (UKZN Press)
- Leonhard
Praeg: “An Answer to the question ‘What is [ubuntu]? in
SAJP, and Au-delà des lignes: Fabien
Eboussi Boulaga, une pratique philosophique, L. Procesi and K. Kavwahirehi
(eds), Lincom, 2012
- D.
Bowler, Rhodes, Mandela-Rhodes Masters Student, Rhodes.
- Ezra Chitando: “Religious Ethics, HIV
and AIDS and Masculinities In Southern Africa,” Persons in Community, R.
Nicolson (ed), UKZN Press, 2008.
- C. Bankumuhari: Research interests in
masculinity and sexual violence as weapon of war.
- Lyn Ossome: Widely published in
feminist theory and politics, land and agrarian studies, and postcolonial
studies.
- Issa Shivji: Class Struggles in
Tanzania (Monthly Review); The Concept of Human Rights in Africa (CODESRIA Book
Series).
- Katherine Furman: Rhodes Masters
Student, MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of
Economics and Political Science (LSE).
- Judge D. Davis, Judge of the High
Court of Cape Town, South Africa, and Judge President of the Competition Appeal
Court. Among his many publications, “Elegy to Transformative Constitutionalism”
(SUN Press).
- I. Keevy: “The Constitutional Court
and ubuntu’s inseparable trinity” JJS
2009(1): 61-88; “Ubuntu versus the core
values of the South African Constitution” JJS 2009 (2): 19-58 and “Ubuntu:
ethnophilosophy and core constitutional values” in Ubuntu Good Faith and
Equity: flexible legal principles in developing a contemporary jurisprudence
Juta: 24-49
3. Winter school: Daily seminars by
Lewis Gordon (9-12 July) and Celine Bankumuhari, Lyn Ossome, M.B. Ramose and
Ama Biney (16-20 July). Political and International Studies Seminar Room, 9am.
Attendance to all these events is free
and open to all members of the university community and the general public.
