Previous Years Events & Visitors

Current year events – go to ACEPS landing page

2023 Events

• 16-18 Jan 2023: Philosophical Society of Southern Africa Conference (PSSA) co-organised by ACEPS & UJ Philosophy @ ACEPS-UJ
• 6-10 Feb 2023:  Notions of Epistemic Justice and Injustice: exploration and application in AI & Data Justice governance – collaboration visit by The Global Data Justice TILT Project to the Epistemology of the 4th Industrial Revolution ACEPS Project @ ACEPS-UJ
• 7 Feb 2023: TiLT–ACEPS Global Data Justice Workshop co-organised by ACEPS with Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society @ ACEPS-UJ
• 3 Mar 2023: ACEPS awarded a “Decolonising Experimental Philosophy” grant.
• 4 Mar 2023: Congrats to doctoral candidate Abe Tobi for publication Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice in Social Epistemology.
• 6-10 Mar 2023: Collaboration visit by PIs of an SNSF funded project “Reversing the Gaze” from Uni Basel @ ACEPS-UJ
• 9 Mar 2023: Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Decolonisation Workshop co-organised by ACEPS with “Reversing the Gaze” project PIs from Uni Basel @ ACEPS-UJ
• 15 Mar 2023: Epistemic Reparations grant awarded by Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs to PI Prof Jennifer Lackey with ACEPS as the South African partner.
• 16 Mar 2023: ACEPS awarded a grant by National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) for the project Philosophy through Indigenous Knowledge in the Global South.
• 26-30 Mar 2023: Notions of Epistemic Justice and Injustice: exploration and application in AI & Data Justice governance – collaboration visit by Epistemology of the 4th Industrial Revolution ACEPS Project to The Global Data Justice TILT Project  @ Uni Tilburg
• 30 Mar 2023: TILT Seminar Epistemic Injustice and Datatech: insights from the Epistemology of the 4th Industrial Revolution Project — ACEPS 4IR team presentation @ Uni Tilburg
• 21 Apr 2023: ACEPS Postgrads Term 2 research and reading groups schedule @ ACEPS-UJ
• 10 May 2023: Congrats to ACEPS doctoral candidate Abe Tobi starting a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship from 2024 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.
• 19 Jul 2023: ACEPS Postgrads Term 3 research groups schedule @ ACEPS-UJ
• 20-21 Jul 2023: Lund Uni and ACEPS postgraduate Work in Progress workshop @ ACEPS-UJ
• 1 Aug 2023: UJ ACEPS PostGrad Talk: On Hostile and Oppressive Affective Technologies by Prof David Spurrett  @ ACEPS-UJ
• 2 Aug 2023: UJ ACEPS/Philosophy Colloquium: The Extended Cuckoo by Prof David Spurrett  @ ACEPS-UJ
• 12 Sep 2023: ACEPS Postgrads Term 4 research groups schedule @ ACEPS-UJ
• 14 Sep 2023: Congrats to ACEPS new doctorate, Dr Dimpho Takane Maponya, awarded permanent tenure.
• 15-16 Sep 2023: Epistemic Blame and Epistemic Reparations Workshop  part of Epistemic Reparations Project funded by Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @ Quamajuc Museum, Winnipeg — Uni Brandon
• 29 Sep 2023: The ACEPS-World MA and PhD Writing Retreat 9:00-17:00 (SAST/ CAT/ CET) Zoom register online @  UJ-ACEPS
• 9-11 Oct 2023: Philosophy through Indigenous Knowledge in the Global South Workshop funded by National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS)  Zoom hybrid @ ACEPS-UJ
• 20 Oct 2023: The ACEPS-World MA and PhD Writing Retreat 9:00-16:00 (SAST/ Central Africa Time/ Central European Time); 12:30­—19:30 (India Standard Time); 2:00­—8:00 (Central Time) Zoom register online @  UJ-ACEPS
• 20 Oct 2023: Philosophy through Indigenous Knowledge Speaker Series funded by NIHSS : Opening Lecture –  Ethnophilosophy as Decolonization: Revisiting the Question of African Philosophy  by Dr Paul Irikefe 16:00 SAST/ 7:00 CA  Zoom hybrid @ ACEPS/UJ Online Talk
• 6 Nov 2023: “Mme Ruth Mompati, a life of courage and service” – Book launch by ACEPS Prof Mongane Serote, South Africa’s National Poet Laureate @ ACEPS-UJ
• 8 Nov 2023: UJ ACEPS/Philosophy Colloquium: “Epistemic oppression and the division of epistemic labour” by Dr Karl Landström, Research Fellow at the Responsible and Sustainable Business Centre, Nottingham Trent University @ ACEPS-UJ

Visitors 2023

• Jan-Feb: Prof Agemir Bavaresco with the Graduate Program in Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), 1 month research visitor  to ACEPS and UJ Philosophy Department.
• Feb: Dr Aviva de Groot is a doctoral researcher on a 1 week visit from  Tilburg Law School with a focus on Epistemic Justice.
• Mar: Prof Ralph Weber and post-doctoral fellow Dr Lerato Posholi visitors for a week from the Institute for European Global Studies, University of Basel, part of the SNSF project Reversing the gaze: Towards Post-Comparative Area Studies.
• Apr-May: Prof Cameron Boult (Uni Brandon) is the Chair of Philosophy, on a collaboration visit on the Epistemic Blame and Reparations project, funded by Northwestern Buffett Institute Global Connections Seed Grant.
• July: Jiwon Kim (Uni Lund) is a doctoral student in Practical Philosophy and is visiting ACEPS for 2 weeks, funded by Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM).
• July: Dr Mark Bowker (Uni Lund) is a Marie Skłodowska–Curie Fellow in Philosophy and visitor to ACEPS for 2 weeks.
• Aug 2023: Prof David Spurrett (UKZN) is a Philosophy Professor, University of KwaZulu-Natal.
• Nov 2023: Dr Karl Landström is a Research Fellow at the Responsible and Sustainable Business Centre, Nottingham Trent University and ACEPS RA on a 1 week visit.

2022 Events

• 18 Feb 2022: Reading Group:  Epistemic Injustice, Reasons and Agency & every 3rd Friday of the month (online 3-5pm)
• 25 Feb, 4 Mar & 25 Mar 2022: Research Groups: Epistemic Decolonisation and Epistemic Injustice (EDEI) & Epistemology of the 4th Industrial Revolution (E4IR) 2:30-4:30pm live @ Piza e Vino
• end Feb 2022: Poet, African intellectual & struggle veteran Prof Mongane Serote’s readings & videos immortalised through an IKS online portal (ACEPS YouTube)
• 16-17 Mar 2022: Epistemic Blame Workshop: Theory and Practice (hybrid UJ) with workshop videos
• 23 Mar 2022: UJ ACEPS/Philosophy Colloquium: Covid-19 Vaccine Refusal as Collective Irrationality? by Dr Sebastian Schmidt (Uni Zürich) (hybrid UJ)
• 29-30 Mar 2022: Epistemic Injustice Conference  – Keynote Prof José Medina (hybrid UJ) with conference videos
• 14 Apr 2022: UJ ACEPS/Philosophy Colloquium: The Memory of Morals by Prof Sven Bernecker (Uni Cologne) (Hybrid UJ)
• 27 May 2022: Responsible Agency and Epistemic Injustice Conference – Keynote Prof Thomas Schramme (University of Liverpool) (Hybrid Uni Kent/ACEPS)
  
• 17 Jun 2022: International Workshop on The Philosophy and Global Politics of Concept Travel – an SNSF funded project “Reversing the Gaze” (Live Uni Basel/ACEPS)
• 24 Jun 2022: Epistemic Injustice, Reasons and Agency Reading Group & then every 2 weeks (online 3-5pm)
• 10 Aug 2022: UJ ACEPS/Philosophy Colloquium: Epistemic Decolonisation, Trust, & Social Media Futures by Prof Karen Frost-Arnold (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) (hybrid UJ 11:20-12:50)
• 12 Aug 2022: Book symposium: Who Should We Be Online? A Social Epistemology for the Internet. by author Prof Karen Frost-Arnold with videos (under contract OUP) (hybrid UJ)
• 19 Aug 2022: Book launch and workshop: by author Prof Thad Metz (2021) A Relational Moral Theory: African Ethics in and beyond the Continent (OUP) (hybrid UJ)
• 28 Sep 2022: UJ ACEPS/Philosophy Colloquium: African data subjects in digital/data colonialism by Aisha Kadiri (PSL Research University France) (live UJ)
• 28 Sep 2022: Templeton funded Geography of Philosophy project – 4th All Teams Virtual Workshop  (online UJ)
• 2 Nov 2022: UJ ACEPS/Philosophy Colloquium: Saving the World: On Knowing and Being in Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk by Prof Fiona Jenkins (ANU Australia) (live UJ)
• 3-4 Nov 2022: Epistemic Wrongs and Epistemic Reparations Workshop (live UJ)

Past Events

• 28 Feb – 1 Mar 2019: Epistemic Injustice (Uni Johannesburg)
• 01-02 May 2019: Epistemic Injustice and Reasons II- Annual SWIP-UK Conference (Uni Kent)
• 23-24 May 2019: New Directions in Philosophy of Medicine Workshop
• May 2019: ACEPS hosted a group of students from Redlands University, USA to study the health landscape in Southern Africa.
• 16 Sep 2019: Language, Concepts and Science International Workshop
• 13 Nov 2020: The place of Philosophy, Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonisation in a Post-Pandemic Africa
• 19-20 Nov 2020: Day1 Day2 THE 3RD GEOGRAPHY OF PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOP ALL TEAM ZOOM WORKSHOP
• 14-15 Oct 2021: Epistemic Injustice, Reasons and Agency Workshop with videos (online)
• 03-05 Nov 2021: Epistemology of the Internet Workshop with videos (online)

Reading Groups

Epistemic Injustice Reasons and Agency reading group (EIRA) (Kent Uni & UJ – Newton grant)
Discuss two related papers for 2 hours via Zoom at 1500 South African time, 1400 BTS, 1300 GMT.

• 01 Oct 2021 3pm: Emmalon Davis – Epistemic Appropriation & Gaile Pohlhaus – Epistemic Agency under Oppression.
• 22 Oct 2021 3pm: Trip Glazer – Epistemic Violence and Emotional Misrecognition & Chap 5 (Misrecognition: Political Reform or Reconciliation): Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed’s book ‘Madness and the Demand for Recognition’.
• 12 Nov 2021 3pm: two papers concerning online epistimology.
• 18 Feb 2022 3pm: two papers from Olivia Bailey: Empathy and Testimonial Trust (2018) & Empathy with Vicious Perspectives (2021).
• 18 Mar 2022 3pm: “Taking Responsibility Seriously”, ch 5 in The Subject of Virtue: the anthropology of ethics and freedom, by James Laidlaw:  in conjunction with Vargas, Manuel R. (2018).“The Social Constitution of Agency and Responsibility: Oppression, Politics, and Moral Ecology”. In Hutchison, Katrina , Mackenzie, Catriona and Marina Oshana (eds.) Social Dimensions of Moral Responsibility. Oxford: OUP
• Apr-Jul 2022 3pm: every 3rd Fri of the month.

Research Groups Postgrad Presentations

Live @ Piza e Vino, 2:30-4:30pm on the following Fridays:
EDEI: Epistemic Decolonisation and Epistemic Injustice Research Group
4IRE: Epistemology of the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) Research Group

• 25 Feb 2022 2:30-4:30pm: 4IRE – Akanimo Andrew Akpan
• 04 Mar 2022 2:30-3:30pm: EDEI – Dimpho Takane Maponye
• 04 Mar 2022 3:30-4:30pm: EDEI – David Scholtz
• 25 Mar 2022 2:30-3:30pm: 4IRE – Abraham Tejiri Tobi (Abe)
• 25 Mar 2022 3:30-4:30pm: 4IRE – Caitlin Rybko

Visitors

• Prof Lewis Gordon (Uni Connecticut) has been appointed a Visiting Professor specialising in Africana Philosophy.
• Prof Nancy Jecker (Uni Washington) has been appointed a Visiting Professor specialising in Bioethics and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar for 2021/22.
• Prof Cameron Boult (Uni Brandon) is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Brandon. He is a Visiting Researcher Nov–Dec 2021 and May–July 2022, collaborating with ACEPS on a future grant proposal on epistemic blame and decolonisation.
• Dr Sebastian Schmidt (Uni Zurich) is a Visiting Research Fellow from the Zürich Epistemology Group on Rationality (Zegra) Feb–March 2022.
• Prof Karen Frost-Arnold (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) An Epistemology of the 4IR project funded researcher for a 2 week visit. (Aug 2022)
• Prof Karen Frost-Arnold (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) has been appointed a Visiting Professor specialising in Social Epistemology of the Internet.
• Prof José Medina (Uni Northwestern) has been appointed a Visiting Professor specialising in Critical Race and Gender/Queer theory