ACEPS Talks, Visits, Fellowships & Publications

Talks, Visits and Fellowships in 2023-4

• 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. (Declined) 22 Feb 2023: Roundtable on “Responsibility for Historical Wrongs: From Epistemology to Law” part of series  on Responsibility for Historical Wrongs, New Perspectives from the Humanities and Arts @ Surrey 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
• Mitova, V. (Invite) Oct 2023: Online talk to a Collective Ethics seminar @ Vienna Uni.
• Kapatika, H. (Talk) 25-28 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. (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 @ Uni Goa & Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• 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.
• Tobi, A. (PostDoc Fellowship) Jan 2024: ACEPS PhD 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.
• Mitova, V. (Visiting Fellowship) 9 Feb 2024: 6 week RSSS Fellowship @ ANU
• Mitova, V. (Invite) Feb 2024: RSSS Research Workshop funding “Thinking from Everywhen: Between Philosophy and Indigenous Knowledges” TBA @ ANU
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 23-24 Apr 2024: “Decolonizing Philosophy” as part of  a book launch colloquium – “Andean and Amazonic Epistemologies. Indigenous Concepts of Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom”  @ Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Publications in 2023

• Serote, M. (Forthcoming) Ruth Mompati biography 
• Tobi, A. (Online) Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice. Social Epistemology.
• Tobi, A. Epistemic injustice and colonisation. South African Journal of Philosophy.
• Mitova, V. (Online) Why Epistemic Decolonisation in Africa? Social Epistemology.
• Mitova, V. Socialising epistemic risk: on the risks of epistemic injustice. Metaphilosophy.
• Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) Motivated Irrationality, Epistemic Innocence, White Ignorance” –
  special issue: Beyond Evidence in Epistemology, 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.
• Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) Replies to Critics: The Collective Epistemic Reasons of Social-identity Groups. Asian Journal of Philosophy.

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