ACEPS Talks, Visits, Fellowships & Publications

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Team’s Talks, Visits, Fellowships & Publications 2025

Celebrations 2025

  • Jan 2025 – Apr 2025: Congrats to Harry Kapatika, ACEPS PhD: Continuation of the “Writing Religion and Social Transformation in Africa: Publishing and Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Arts, Humanities and Social Science Researchers” award. Hosted by Malawi British Academy, University of Malawi & the University of Edinburgh.
  • 24 Jan 2025: Congrats to Prof Veli Mitova, ACEPS Director,  recipient of the 2025 Erasmus+ staff mobility 9 day visit to Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski in late May 2025.
  • Jan-Apr 2025: Congrats to Dr Paige Benton, ACEPS PDRF, selected to attend the Center for AI and Digital Policy’s Spring Clinic, Washington.
  • 10 Feb 2025: Congrats to Nomaswazi Kubeka, PhD candidate at ACEPS, recipient of the Globalink Research Award, for the project ‘Theorizing Indigenous Group Silencing: Canadian and South African Perspectives’. Her three-month fully funded research visit to McGill University, Canada will take place from September to November 2025.

Team’s Publications in 2025

  • Benton, P. (2025) Democratic AI: Justification for a Broad View of Public Reason. Communications in Computer and Information Science.
  • Benton, P. (2025) The Commodification of Attention, Distrust & Resentment: a Threat to (Rawlsian) Justice. Technology and Regulation. https://doi.org/10.71265/k6r46952
  • de Rijk, S. (2025) Toxic Positivity and Epistemic Injustice. Episteme. https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2025.7
  • Mitova, V. (Forth.) Oppressive Epistemic Dilemmas. In Schmidt, E. and Grajner, M. (Eds.) Epistemic Dilemmas and Epistemic Normativity. Routledge.
  • Mitova, V. (2025) Motivated Irrationality, Epistemic Innocence, White Ignorance. Philosophical Topics, 51 (2): 93-112.
  • Mitova, V. (2025) Decolonial Epistemic-Authority Reparations. Episteme. DOI: 10.1017/epi.2025.2.
  • Mitova, V. (2025) De-idealising Epistemology through Collectivising. International Journal of Philosophical Studies. DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2025.2482906
  • Mitova, V., Bortolus, A. et al. (2025) Knowledge Brokers at the Science–Policy Interface: Insights from Biosecurity and Environmental Management. Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02208-7.

 

Talks, Visits and Fellowships in 2024


Celebrations 2024

  • Jan 2024: Tobi, A. (PostDoc Fellowship) ACEPS PhD graduate awarded a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship for his project “Marginal Epistemic Injustice” at Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency (C1RC-IAE) and the Centre for Research in Ethics (CRE) @ Uni Quebec-Montreal.
  • 2 Jan 2024: ACEPS welcomes 4 new Postdoctoral Research Fellows – Drs: Paige Benton, Garikai Madavo, Paul Michael, Uchenna Ogbonnaya
  • 5 Feb 2024: Congrats to Dr Paige Benton, ACEPS PDRF,  recipient of the 2024 GES 4.0 Fellowship!
  • 9 Feb 2024: Mitova, V. (Visiting Fellowship) 6 week RSSS Fellowship @ ANU
  • 5 Mar 2024: Rybko, C. Currently completing her PhD appointed a temporary lecturer at Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics @ Uni Witwatersrand.
  • 3 Apr 2024: UJ Graduation for ACEPS 3 newest PhDs (l-r): Dr Abraham Tejiri Tobi, their supervisor Prof Veli Mitova, Dr  Dimpho Takane Maponya and Dr Akanimo Andrew Akpan
  • 05 May 2024: Congrats to ACEPS postdoc Dr Paige Benton, awarded R150,000 as part of  GES Workshop Series Seminars: “The Political Epistemology of 4IR Data, Democracy and Discourse: Unpacking 4IR’s Political and Epistemic Impact”

Publications in 2024

Talks, Visits and Fellowships in 2023

Publications in 2023