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Events 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!
  • 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
  • 5 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”
  • 22 Oct 2024: Rybko, C. ACEPS PhD graduate appointed a permanent lecturer at Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics @ Uni Witwatersrand.

Visitors 2024

  • Jan 2024: Prof Gaile Pohlhaus (Miami U) on a 1 week research collaboration visit.
  • Jan 2024: Prof Sarah Wright (U of Georgia) on a 2 week research collaboration visit.
  • Jan 2024: Prof Amandine Catala ( U of Quebec at Montreal) on a 1 week research collaboration visit.
  • Jan 2024: Prof Davide Fassio (Zhejiang U) on a 1 week research collaboration visit.
  • Apr 2024: Prof Cameron Boult (Brandon U) is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Brandon. He is a Visiting Researcher collaborating with ACEPS and a return visitor to ACEPS.
  • Jul 2024: Tancredo Tivane PhD Candidate from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Arkansas Fayetteville on a 1 week research visit.
  • Oct 2024: Prof Karen Frost-Arnold from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, is a 4IR funded Visiting Professor and a return visitor to ACEPS. Prof Greg Frost-Arnold is a Professor of Philosophy @ Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Both visitors are on 1 week research collaboration visits.
  • Oct 2024: Prof Fiona Jenkins Professor of Philosophy and Director of the ANU Gender Institute @ Australian National University on a 2 week research collaboration visit.
  • Nov 2024: Dr Boaz Miller is a senior Lecturer @ Zefat Academic College (Israel) on a 1 week research collaboration visit.

2023 Events


Visitors 2023


2022 Events


Past Events


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.

 


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