Description:

Please join us for a conference featuring presentations and a roundtable discussion with Nadia Yala Kisukidi (Paris 8); Paulin J. Hountondji (National University Benin) and Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia University). Bringing together three highly distinguished researchers within the field of Africana philosophy, the presentations and discussion will focus on the themes of a decolonial reclamation of universality – often presumed to be simply a Eurocentric feature of traditional “Western” philosophy – and the associated decolonization of academia.

Presented in French and English with simultaneous translation.

Conference Schedule:

Thursday, June 17th

10am-11am: Presentation by Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Chaired by Prof. Rachel Zuckert (Philosophy)

Graduate respondents:

Gorgui I. Tall (French and Italian) and

Yuan-Chih (Sreddy) Yen (English)

11am-12pm: Presentation by Paulin J. Hountondji

Chaired by Prof. Doris Garraway (French and Italian)

Graduate respondents:

Alan Chayova (Philosophy) and

Carmen De Schryver (Philosophy)

Friday, June 18th

10am-11am: Presentation by Nadia Yala Kisukidi

Chaired by Prof. Evan Mwangi (English)

Graduate respondents:

Ashley Ferrell (Rhetoric and Public Culture) and

Noran Mohamed (French and Italian)

11am-12pm: Roundtable discussion and general Q&A,

Chaired by Prof. Dilip Gaonkar (Rhetoric and Public Culture)

*For more information, please contact the organizer, Carmen De Schryver (carmendeschryver2021@u.northwestern.edu).