SOAS World Philosophies Lecture Series

Previous lectures in this series:

• Lecture 1: Reflections on Globalising Philosophy by Prof Richard King, University of Kent, February 2021.
• Lecture 2: Are Black Women Persons? by Dr Mpho Tshivhase, University of Pretoria, April 2021.
• Lecture 3: Where is World Philosophy and How is She Doing? by Prof Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, June 2021.
• Lecture 4: Enlightenment Raciology and the Revision of the History of Philosophy by Prof. Peter K J Park, University of Texas at Dallas, August 2021.
• Lecture 5: The Epistemologies of the South and the Task of Decolonising the University by Emeritus Prof Boaventura de Sousa Santus, University of Coimbra, October 2021.
• Lecture 6: Is Epistemic Injustice White People Stuff? by Prof Veli Mitova, University of Johannesburg, December 2021.
• Lecture 7: On Mexistentialism, by Prof Carlos Alberto Sanchez, San Jose State University, California, FEB 2022.
• Lecture 8: Contemplative Transformation in Early Daoism, by Distinguished Prof Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University, Tennessee, April 2022.
• Lecture 9: Àddina: Non-objective representation of "the world" in Boubacar Boris Diop's Doomi Golo (2003), by Prof Alena Rettová, University of Bayreuth, Germany, June 2022.
• Lecture 10: Humanism in Contemporary Indian Philosophy, by Elise Coquereau-Saouma, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
• Lecture 11: Modern and Contemporary Traditions of Arab Philosophy by Professor Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, Doha, Qatar
• Lecture 12: Subjective Security, by Professor Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Georgetown University,Washington DC.
• Lecture 13: Confucian and Neo-Confucian Concepts in Post-Human Sciences by Dr Tomasz Sleziak, Research Associate, Oxford House Research
• Lecture 14: The Epistemic Value of Diversity by Linda Martín Alcoff, Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York. Washington DC.
• Lecture 15: Neoliberal Citizenship: Sacred Markets, Sacrificial Lives by Luca Mavelli, Associate Professor, Politics and International Relations, University of Kent
• Lecture 16: Histories of Philosophies in the Peripheries: The Case of Korea by Sool Park, Researcher in the DFG-Project “Histories of Philosophies in a Global Perspective,” University of Hildesheim
• Lecture 17: Environmental Ethics, Climate Change, and African Social Epistemology by Kai Horsthemke, Visiting Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
• Lecture 18: Bantu Ontology and the Ontological Turn, by Angela Roothaan, Associate Professor at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
• Lecture 19: Self-respect, Integrity, and a Racially Imperfect World, by Samantha Vice, Professor of philosophy at the University of Wits.
• Lecture 20: The Body, Breathe and the World We Live in, by Arindam Chakrabarti, Professor of Philosophy, Ashoka University, India.
• Lecture 21: Gender as Affect: a Cross-Cultural Aesthetics of Gender, by Johnathan Flowers, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Northridge.
• Lecture 22: Aesthetics and the Ordinary Notes of Being in Marcuse, Wynter, and Sharpe, by Jina Fast, SHIFT Professor of Applied Ethics and the Common Good, Hampshire College, Amherst.
• Lecture 23: The Golden Age of Islam and the Secrets of the Ilm-ethos, by Akbar Ahmed, Distinguished Professor and the Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University.
• Lecture 24: Human Dignity in African Thought, by Motsamai Molefe, Associate Professor at University of South Africa, Midrand
   

• Lecture 1 (Nigeria): ‘The Conversational School of Philosophy in Nigeria’ and ‘Introduction to the Philosophy of Consolationism’ by Jonathan Chimakonam (University of Pretoria) and Ada Agada (University of Fort Hare) respectively. June 2022.
• Lecture 2 (Botswana):  On indigenous psychology in Africa: What can African philosophy offer African psychology? By Seth Oppong, Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Botswana, Gaborone, Botswana
• Lecture 3: Philosophy, Racist Ideology & Liberatory Pedagogy: a reflection on Kant & the canon problem, by Prof Huaping Lu-Adler, Georgetown University, June 2022.
• Lecture 4: Mental Disorders as Processes, by Elly Vintiadis, The American College of Greece, August 2022.
• Lecture 5: The Concept of Justice in Africa: A Catalyst for Sustainability and  Development, by Dr Mirian Ngozi Alike, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria, October 2022