ACEPS Talks, Visits, Fellowships & Publications
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
- 16-18 Jan 2023: (Talks) Philosophical Society of Southern Africa Conference (PSSA) by ACEPS members: Andrew Akpan, Shené de Rijk, Chad Harris, Gontse Lebakeng, Dimpho Maponya, Veli Mitova, Ben Smart and Abe Tobi @ Uni Johannesburg.
- Mitova, V. (Invite) 25 Jan 2023: Decolonizing Epistemic Injustice and Implicit Bias Conference “Can Theorising Epistemic Injustice Help Us Decolonise” @ Arctic Uni, Norway.
- Mitova, V. (Visit) 20-24 Feb 2023: Collaboration with Constructing Social Hierarchy project @ Melbourne Uni.
- Mitova, V. (Invite) 20 Feb 2023: “Decolonising Experts” for Constructing Social Hiearchy Workshop @ Melbourne Uni.
- Mitova, V. (Invite) 21 Feb 2023: Forum on “Decolonizing the philosophy curriculum — experiences from South Africa” @ Melbourne Uni.
- Mitova, V. (Written response) 23 Feb 2023: Cluster-Initiative “Ethics for Sciences”: Advisory Board Workshop @ Uni Göttingen.
- Maponya, D. (Interview) 26 Feb 2023: On PowerFM Interest: Analysis on Prof Phakeng’s sudden early retirement.
- Mitova, V. (Invite) 3 Mar 2023: “Decolonising Experts” for online talk series on underrepresented groups in philosophy and academia run by Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency @ Uni of Quebec at Montreal.
- 9 Mar 2023: (Talks) Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Decolonisation Workshop co-organised with “Reversing the Gaze” project PIs from Uni Basel by ACEPS members: Andrew Akpan, Dimpho Maponya, Veli Mitova, and Abe Tobi @ Uni Johannesburg.
- Tobi, A. (Invite) 15 Mar 2023: “Epistemic Responsibility in Epistemically Toxic Environments” @ Uni Cape Town.
- 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 (live Uni Tilburg)
- 30 Mar 2023: (Talks) TILT Seminar Epistemic Injustice and Datatech: insights from the Epistemology of the 4th Industrial Revolution Project — ACEPS 4IR team of Veli Mitova, Akanimo Akpan, Caitlin Rybko and Abraham Tobi @ Uni Tilburg.
- Mitova, V. (Master Class) 30 Mar 2023: Decolonising Experts @ Uni Tilburg.
- Rybko, C. (Invite) 5 Apr 2023: Respondent to “A Frame for Structural Epistemology” by Ezgi Sertler at the Pacific APA in San Francisco.
- Mitova, V. (Visiting Fellowship) 1 May 2023: A 2 month Fellowship with the 2023 ZiF Project “The epistemology of evidence-based policy: How philosophy can facilitate the science-policy interface” @ Uni Bielefeld.
- Maponya, D. (Invite) 5 May 2023: “African Feminism” UJ-Redlands Symposium @ UJ.
- Mitova, V. (Participant) 11-12 May 2023: “ZiF Research Group Workshop II Biases in acquisition and consideration of evidence, including questions of the incentives for and rationality of biases“ @ Uni Bielefeld.
- Mitova, V. (Invite) 23 May 2023: “ZiF Research Group All Fellows Meeting: Epistemic Injustice and Evidence Based Policy” @ Uni Bielefeld.
- Mitova, V. (Invite) 31 May 2023: “Group Moral Encroachment” Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition @ Uni Cologne.
- Tobi, A. (Invite) 1-2 Jun 2023: “The Social Epistemology of Social Media” workshop @ TU Berlin.
- Meylan, A., Mitova, V., Schmidt, S. (Talk) 3 Jun 2023: “Conspiracy Theories and Marginalization_ A New Argument for Particularism” 2nd International Conference on the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theory @ VU Amsterdam.
- Mitova, V., Schwenkenbecher, A. (Invite) 15 Jun 2023 “Ethics in Evidence Based Policy” Practical Philosophy Seminar @ Uni Bielefeld
- Mitova, V., Schwenkenbecher, A. (Invite) 29 Jun 2023 “How Evidence-Based Policy has to mean Ethics-Based Policy” ZIF Workshop III @ Uni Bielefeld
- Mitova, V. (Invite) 11-12 Jul 2023: “Social Group Moral Encroachment” Episteme Annual Conference Zanzibar.
- Mitova, V. (Invite) 14-15 Jul 2023: “Epistemic Authority Reparations” Episteme Writing Workshop Zanzibar.
- Maponya, D. (Doctorate & Tenure) 14 Sep 2023: Congrats to ACEPS doctoral candidate, Dimpho Takane Maponya.
- Mitova, V. (Invite) 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
- Kapatika, H. (Talk) 27 Oct 2023: “Epistemicide and the Paradox of Restituting African Tangible and Intangible Heritages” at the 5th Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA), Lubumbashi.
- Mitova, V. (Invite) 6 Nov 2023: “Social Group Moral Encroachment“ at Collective Ethics seminar @ Vienna Uni.
- Mitova, V. (Visit) Nov 2023: 2 week visit as part of Philosophy through Indigenous Knowledge in the Global South project funded by National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) TBA @ Goa Uni & Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
- Mitova, V. (Invite) 21 Nov 2023: Reparations-Decolonisations-Just Transitions @ IIT Delhi.
- Mitova, V. (Invite) 23 Nov 2023: Decolonial Epistemic Authority – Reparations @ Goa Uni.
- Mitova, V. (Award) 30 Nov 2023: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Academic Citizenship
- Mitova, V. (Invite) 14-16 Dec 2023: Forum on outcome of the 2023 ZiF Project “The epistemology of evidence-based policy: How philosophy can facilitate the science-policy interface” @ Uni Bielefeld.
Publications in 2023
- Mitova, V. (2023) A New Argument for the Non-Instrumental Value of Truth. Erkenntnis, 88(5): 1911-1933.
- Mitova, V. (2023) Why Epistemic Decolonisation in Africa? Social Epistemology, 37(6): 739-752.
- Mitova, V. (2023) Socialising epistemic risk: on the risks of epistemic injustice. Metaphilosophy, 54(4): 539–552.
- Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) Motivated Irrationality, Epistemic Innocence, White Ignorance. Philosophical Topics.
- Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) Decolonising Experts. In Farina, M., Lavazza, A. and Pritchard, D. (Eds.) Expertise: Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) Wilful Hermeneutical Injustice to the (Qualified) Rescue of Knowledge-first. In Logins, A. and Vollet, J. (Eds.) Putting Knowledge to Work. New York: Oxford University Press.
- Serote, M. (2023) Mme Ruth Mompati: A Life of Courage and Service. Johannesburg: Seriti sa Sechaba Publishers.Tobi, A. (2023) Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice. Social Epistemology, 37(6): 798-809.
- Tobi, A. (2023) Epistemic injustice and colonisation. South African Journal of Philosophy, 41(4): 337-346.