ACEPS Talks, Visits, Fellowships & Publications

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Talks, Visits and Fellowships in 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.
  • 17-19 Jan 2024: (Talks) Philosophical Society of Southern Africa Conference (PSSA) by ACEPS members: Paige Benton, Shené de Rijk, Nomaswazi Kubeka, Gontse Lebakeng, Dimpho Moletsane, Dimpho Maponya, Abe Tobi  and Veli Mitova and ACEPS RA visitors: Amandine Catala, Gaile Pohlhaus (keynote) and Sarah Wright @ Uni Stellenbosch.
  • 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
  • 13-14 Feb 2024: Mitova, V. (Invite) “Decolonial Epistemic-Authority Reparations” as part of Thinking from Everywhen: Philosophy, Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives workshop funded by RSSS Research @ ANU
  • 29 Feb 2024: Mitova, V. (Invite)  “Social group moral encroachment” talk as part of ANU Philosophy’s Thursday Seminar Series followed by post-talk Q&A with graduate students @ ANU
  • 2 Mar 2024: Ogbonnaya, U. (Invite) “Her-Storicity and Conceptual Mandelisation”: A Roundtable in Honour of Prof. Mesembe I. Edet @ online Uni Calabar.
  • 5 Mar 2024: Rybko, C. (Temporary Lecturer) ACEPS currently completing PhD candidate appointed at Philosophy Department @ Uni Witwatersrand.
  • 14 Mar 2024: Mitova, V. (Respondent) Discuss forthcoming paper: “Decolonising Experts” as part of Postgraduate Philosophy’s Seminar Series @ Uni Melbourne.
  • 15 Apr 2024: Mitova, V. (Respondent) Discuss forthcoming paper: “Decolonising Experts” with the African Philosophy Reading Group @ online ACEPS-Zurich Uni.
  • 24-25 Apr 2024: Mitova, V. (Keynote)  “Decolonising Philosophy: Lessons from South Africa” as part of  ACEPS collaboration on Andean and Amazonic Epistemologies. Indigenous Concepts of Knowledge, Wisdom and Understanding” book launch colloquium @ Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
  • 8-10 July 2024: Benton, P. (Talk) “AI Knowledge-making Powers: A Threat to Rawlsian Justice” at TILTing Perspectives Conference 2024 “Looking back, moving forward: Re-assessing technology regulation in digitalized worlds” @ Tilburg Uni.

Publications in 2024

  • De Rijk, S. (Forthcoming) Euthanasia in Human Beings vs. Companion Animals. South African Journal of Philosophy.
  • Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) Social Group Moral Encroachment. Episteme.
  • Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) Can Theorising Epistemic Injustice Help Us Decolonise? Inquiry.

Talks, Visits and Fellowships in 2023

Publications in 2023