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Center for Advanced Studies, Hildesheim University We link cross-cultural and decolonial philosophy, invite thinkers from the Global South and work at building a global database of philosophical works and practices. http://glophi.com
Our Early-Career Workshop "Futures of Philosophizing in Africa" has officially begun! We welcome Aderonke Adeyinka Ajiboro, Bolaji Olaronke Akanni, Eyasu Berento Assefa, Noah Opeyemi Balogun, Nolwandle Lembethe, and Taye Birhanu Taressa and look forward to the discussions!
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Early-Career Workshop for African Researchers in Philosophy: Futures of Philosophizing in Africa
Part of the Workshop "Futures of Philosophizing"
March 6-9, 2026, Universität Hildesheim
Organized by Abosede Ipadeola und Monika Rohmer
Program now online: glophi.com/2025/08/06/c...
Nie das Ende, immer nur der neue Anfang:
Nachruf auf Bernhard Waldenfels
Barbara Schellhammer (Zentrum für Globale Fragen)
Polyglot, Artikel #4
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We are pleased to welcome Dr. Falk Parra-Witte as a new Long-Term Fellow. Dr. Falk Parra-Witte is a Colombian-German anthropologist whose work centers on understanding human ecology (relations to nature) within a cosmological context.
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Healing as a Philosophical Practice
Summer School, 24 – 28 August 2026
Call for Participation Deadline: April 1, 2026
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We are pleased to welcome Dr. Priyanka Jha as a new Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World” (GloPhi). At GloPhi, Dr. Jha advances her research project “Us and the World: Gendered Intellectual History of India and South Asia.”
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Bilingual Workshop on German–Korean Poetry Translation
International Workshop, Hildesheim University
23–24 March 2026, KC. 50.202 (Hohes Haus)
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Korean Philosophy: From a Comparative and Intercultural Perspective, International Conference
October 5–6, 2026, Hildesheim University
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Organized by The North American Korean Philosophy Association (NAKPA) under the auspices of Prof. Sool Park.
We mourn the passing of Maria Paula Meneses (1963–2026), one of the most influential African anthropologists and postcolonial scholars of her generation. Meneses was a leading voice in debates on legal pluralism, memory, postcolonialism, and the Epistemologies of the South.
As part of the Research Focus Philosophies in Africa, our Center for Advanced Studies is launching its first Language Focus under the title Philosophizing in isiZulu. Coordinated by Lindokuhle Shabane, the focus explores isiZulu as a medium of philosophical articulation.
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Can a seventeenth-century Ethiopian thinker reshape the global history of philosophy? In our latest interview, Jonathan Egid and Fasil Merawi discuss Zera Yacob, the Hatäta, modernity and rationality, and the future of African philosophy.
Full interview: youtu.be/UFONVjBcHCQ
New Open-Access Article: Philosophising in Wolof: Beyond Translation (Monika Christine Rohmer, Phronimon Vol. 26, 2025)
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We are pleased to welcome Prof. Rutte Faizah Andrade as a Long-Term Fellow at our Center.
Prof. Andrade specializes on African philosophy, Afro-diasporic thought, and Afrocentric epistemologies.
For more information, please follow this link:
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Prof. Mogobe Ramose reflects on philosophy as a lived ethical practice grounded in Ubuntu. He challenges epistemic injustice and the silencing of indigenous languages, calling for a way of philosophizing attentive to experience, truthfulness, and justice. youtu.be/iJZLhkbG4xI
New publication by Nikita Dhawan at Duke University Press:
Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization
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The article can be accessed here: dx.doi.org/10.12795/Fed...
We had the pleasure of hosting a research talk with Lorena Grigoletto on her recent article “Rhythm, Contagion, ‘Cosmic Race’: New Paths of Mimesis in Post-Colonial Mexico,” an exploration of José Vasconcelos’ rereading of ancient Pythagoreanism and the notion of mimesis in a postcolonial context.
Futures of Philosophizing:
On the Transformation of the Philosophy Curriculum
International Workshop
March 10th to 13th, 2026, University of Hildesheim
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Anke Graness and Monika Rohmer examined African Feminist Philosophies such as intersectionality (Awa Thiam, Kimberlé Crenshaw), African womanism (Chikwenye Okonjo Ogunyemi), nego-feminism (Obioma Nnaemeka), STIWA feminism (Molara Ogundipe-Leslie), Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, Hudā Shaʿrāwī and Nawāl as-Saʿdāwī
Prof. Anke Graness' lecture traced philosophical engagements with slavery across European, Islamic, and African traditions, with a central focus on Aḥmad Bābā of Timbuktu and his Miʿrāj al-ṣaʿūd, a powerful early critique of the racialized enslavement of free Muslims from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Epistemology of Ignorance: What We Don’t Know About Race and Racism, Lecture by Yoko Arisaka
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Date: Thursday, 22 January 2026
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: MOGI 06/030
Host: Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Professor Eduardo Mendieta on December 17, 2025. Professor Mendieta was scheduled to join our Center as a research fellow next summer. We mourn the loss of an outstanding philosopher and colleague. www.shookscedargrove.com/obituaries/E...
La philosophie africaine à l’ère des technologies émergentes
Entretien avec Ouandé Armand Regnima
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« Du métissage à la pensée métisse » (Rue Descartes 105, 2025) explores métissage as lived experience and philosophical method—between history and aesthetics, politics and phenomenology. Edited by Abbed Kanoor.
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Our Thursday lecture series explores philosophy beyond Eurocentric canons — from early origins to East Asian, Islamic, and Arabic-language traditions. Recent sessions covered Ibn Khaldūn (J. Kynes) and al-Kindī & al-Fārābī (S. Dhouib). Up next: Persian philosophy, then Africa.
Talk by our team member Monika Rohmer TOMORROW at the University of Vienna!
Wutum xam-xam
The quest for knowledge through writing Wolof
Tuesday, 9th December 2025, 5:15 pm
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We spoke with Prof. Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob about what it means to teach philosophy in Nigeria today — from Igbo cultural traditions to the challenges of academic practice. Watch the full interview with one of Nigeria’s leading philosophers: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSum...
We’re thrilled to celebrate our former fellow Tanella Boni, who has been awarded the 2025 Tchicaya U Tam’si Prize for African Poetry in Morocco. Her powerful and deeply human poetic work continues to shape contemporary African literature. Congratulations to one of the major voices of our time!
EJJP 10 (2025) is out now!
Our 10th anniversary issue features a major focus on leftist Kyoto School philosopher Nakai Masakazu, new translations (including Tanabe’s “Logic of Social-Being”), articles on Japanese phenomenology, memory, aesthetics, Zen & Dada, and more.
Open access: ejjp-journal.org
What can literature teach philosophy—and how does a society rebuild after genocide? Chantal Gishoma reflects on Alexis Kagamé, Rwandan oral traditions, and the philosophical rupture of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. A powerful reflection on memory, resilience, and rethinking humanity.