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ACEPS Talks, Visits, Fellowships & Publications

Team’s Talks, Visits, Fellowships & Publications 2025

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• 22-24 Jan 2025: (Talks) Philosophical Society of Southern Africa Conference () held at situated in the Vredefort Dome, given by ACEPS members: Dimpho Maponya (Keynote), Paige Benton, Shen茅 de Rijk, Harry Kapatika, Nomaswazi Kubeka, Gontse Lebakeng, M Lombaard, Dimpho Moletsane, Veli Mitova and ACEPS RA visitors: Amandine Catala听 and Sarah Wright
• 28-30 Jan 2025: Benton, P. (Invited Talk & Part of the Organizing Committee) for The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research 听@ Kigali Rwanda
• 5 Mar 2025: De Rijk, S. (Invited Talk) 鲍碍窜狈鈥揢狈滨窜鲍尝鲍听Philosophy Seminar Series: “The Epistemological Dimension of Toxic Positivity”@ 鲍碍窜狈鈥揢狈滨窜鲍尝鲍 Online
• 6 Mar 2025: Mitova, V. (Invited Talk) WITS Philosophy Symposium: “Hermeneutical Reparations and the Right to be Known” @ WITS 3-5pm SAST
• 28 Mar 2025: ACEPS PGs and PDRFs WIP Workshop听@ ACEPS-UJ
• Apr-Jun 2025: ACEPS PGs and PDRFs 听@ ACEPS-UJ
• 30 Mar鈥�4 Apr 2025: Kapatika, H. British Academy Writers Workshop @ Uni of Malawi
• 8 Apr 2025: Benton, P.听 (Invited Roundtable Discussion) Data Commons: Creating Inclusive Data Capital and Enabling Fair Access by United Nations Office for Digital and Emerging Technologies (ODET) and the Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) @ Uni Pretoria
• 24 Apr 2025: Maponya D. (Invited Talk) Wits Philosophy Research Seminar: Feminism and Race Loyalty: Conflicting Normative Interests in South Africa @ hybrid Wits
• 30 Apr 2025: Kubeka, N. (Invited Talk) Discursive Linguistic Injustice and Epistemic Reparations as part of 鲍碍窜狈鈥揢狈滨窜鲍尝鲍 Philosophy Seminar Series @ 鲍碍窜狈鈥揢狈滨窜鲍尝鲍 Online
• 15-16 May 2025: Kubeka, N. and Mitova, V. (Invited Talks) Conference on Intersection of Linguistic Justice and Epistemic Injustice: A decolonial perspective @
• 22 May 2025: Mitova, V. (Invited Talk) Graduate Symposium: Lessons on decolonising the curriculum @ Uni Vienna
• 26..30 May 2025: Mitova, V. (Invited Visit) Collaboration visit to Department of Philosophy at Sophia 欧美福利100000 funded by Erasmus+ mobility grant @ Uni Sofia
• 6 Jun 2025: Mitova, V (Talk) Hermeneutical relationships at the听 @ Bled
• 13 Jun 2025: Benton, P.听 (Invited Talk) Workshop on the Philosophy of Deep Learning @ J眉lich-Eindhoven Online
• 18 Jun 2025: Benton, P.听 (Invited Discussion) Towards Just, Equitable Data and AI Governance in Africa A Side Event ahead of the T20 Mid-Term Conference. Convened by Research ICT Africa in partnership with AI4D Africa Network and D4D Network @ Raddison RED Hotel, Johannesburg
• 18 Jun 2025: ACEPS PGs and PDRFs WIP Workshop @ ACEPS-UJ
• 24-26 Jun 2025: Mitova, V (Invitee)听 Episteme Writing Workshop funded by Cambridge 欧美福利100000 Press and Northwestern 欧美福利100000 @ Skukuza Kruger Gate Hotel
• 27-28 Jun 2025: (Talks) hosted by the North-West 欧美福利100000 (NWU) given by ACEPS members: Shen茅 de Rijk, Harry Kapatika, Nomaswazi Kubeka, M Lombaard,听and Dimpho Moletsane听 plus UJ Philosophy Postgraduates @ Potchefstroom campus
• 25鈥�28 Jun 2025: Benton, P. (Panel Presentation)听 Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT) Conference: @ online Eindhoven, Netherlands
• Jul-Aug 2025: ACEPS PGs and PDRFs Term 3 Writing Retreats and WIPs听@ ACEPS-UJ
• 25-27 Aug 2025: (Invited Talks) (SASEP) given by ACEPS members: Harry Kapatika, M Lombaard @ North-West Uni
• 29 Aug 2025: ACEPS PGs and PDRFs WIP Workshop听@ ACEPS-UJ
• 2 Sept 2025: Benton, P. (Invited Talk) Counselling Psychologist Group 鈥� Clinical AI in South Africa: 鈥淭he Geopolitical Landscape of AI鈥� @ Online TBA
• 3-5 Sep 2025: De Rijk, S. (Talk) Toxic Positivity and Affective Injustice at the MANCEPT Affective Injustice Workshop @ Manchester Uni
• Sep-Nov 2025: ACEPS PGs and PDRFs Term 4 Writing Retreats and WIPs听@ ACEPS-UJ

Celebrations 2025

• Jan 2025 鈥� Apr 2025: Congrats to Harry Kapatika, ACEPS PhD: Continuation of the “Writing Religion and Social Transformation in Africa: Publishing and Mentoring Workshop for Early Career Arts, Humanities and Social Science Researchers” award. Hosted by Malawi British Academy, 欧美福利100000 of Malawi & the 欧美福利100000 of Edinburgh.
• 24 Jan 2025: Congrats to Prof Veli Mitova, ACEPS Director,听 recipient of the 2025 Erasmus+ staff mobility 9 day visit to Sofia 欧美福利100000 St. Kliment Ohridski in late May 2025.
• Jan-Apr 2025: Congrats to Dr Paige Benton, ACEPS PDRF, selected to attend the Center for AI and Digital Policy’s Spring Clinic, Washington.
• 10 Feb 2025: Congrats to Nomaswazi Kubeka, PhD candidate at ACEPS, recipient of the Globalink Research Award, for the project 鈥楾heorizing Indigenous Group Silencing: Canadian and South African Perspectives鈥�. Her three-month fully funded research visit to McGill 欧美福利100000, Canada will take place from September to November 2025.
• 2025: Congrats to Paige Benton, Programme Committee Member for AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) in Madrid,
• 2025: Congrats to Paige Benton, Track Co-Chair, Philosophy and Law Track, South African Conference for Artificial Intelligence Research (SACAIR) in Spain.
• 2025: Congrats to Harry Wilson Kapatika, PhD candidate at ACEPS, recipient of a听听as part of the African Fellowships for Research in Indigenous and Alternative Knowledges.
• 2025: Congrats to Paige Benton, Co-chair for the Special Interest Group (SIG) with the International Society of Philosophy and Technology (SPT) on the Political Philosophy of Engineering and Technology for 2025-2027. Alongside Dr Avigail Ferdman and Dr Michael Schmidt.

Team’s Publications in 2025

• Benton, P. (2025) .听Communications in Computer and Information Science. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-78255-8_26.
• Benton, P. (2025). DOI: 10.71265/k6r46952.
• de Rijk, S. (2025) .听Episteme. DOI: 10.1017/epi.2025.7.
• Miragoli, M. (2025) . Synthese 206 (1): 1-27.
• Miragoli, M. (Forth.) Structural Epistemic Reparations: Lessons From The Military Comfort System in Japan During World War II.听Philosophical Studies.
• Miragoli, M. (Forth.) Hinge Epistemology?听Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
• Mitova, V., Bortolus, A.听et al.听(2025)听听Ambio. DOI: 10.1007/s13280-025-02208-7.
• Mitova, V. (2025) .听Episteme. DOI: 10.1017/epi.2025.2.
• Mitova, V. (2025) .听International Journal of Philosophical Studies.听DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2025.2482906.
• Mitova, V. (2025) Inquiry. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2025.2539820.
• Mitova, V. (2025) . Philosophical Studies. DOI: 10.1007/s11098-025-02406-9.
• Mitova, V. (2025) .听Philosophical Topics,听51 (2): 93-112.
• Mitova, V. (Forth.) Oppressive Epistemic Dilemmas. In Schmidt, E. and Grajner, M. (Eds.)听. New York: Routledge.

Blog Posts

• Benton, P. (2025).听. The Mail & Guardian. .
• de Rijk, S. (2025)听. Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare 鈥� Project EPIC blog. .
• de Rijk, S. (2025)听. Open for Debate 鈥� Cardiff 欧美福利100000. .
• Makola, K. (2025) . LSE Blog.

Talks, Visits and Fellowships in 2024

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• Jan 2024:听ACEPS Postgrads Term 1 research and reading group schedule听@ ACEPS-UJ
• 16 Jan 2024: Benton, P. (Talk). The CAIR AI 4 Society Symposium Series @ Uni Stellenbosch
• 17-19 Jan 2024: (Talks) Philosophical Society of Southern Africa Conference (PSSA) by ACEPS members: Paige Benton, Shen茅 de Rijk, Nomaswazi Kubeka, Gontse Lebakeng, Dimpho Moletsane, Dimpho Maponya, Abe Tobi听 and Veli Mitova and ACEPS RA visitors: Amandine Catala, Gaile Pohlhaus (keynote) and Sarah Wright @ Uni Stellenbosch.
• 13-14 Feb 2024: Mitova, V. (Invite) “Decolonial Epistemic-Authority Reparations” as part of Thinking from Everywhen: Philosophy, Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives workshop funded by RSSS Research @ ANU
• 23-25 Feb 2024: Kapatika H. (Visit) NIHSS funded IKS Research trip to Ncwala Ceremony @ Eastern Province of Zambia in Chipata
• 29 Feb 2024: Mitova, V. (Invite)听 “Social group moral encroachment” talk as part of ANU Philosophy’s Thursday Seminar Series followed by post-talk Q&A with graduate students @ ANU
• 2 Mar 2024: Ogbonnaya, U. (Invite) “Her-Storicity and Conceptual Mandelisation”: A Roundtable in Honour of Prof. Mesembe I. Edet @ online Uni Calabar.
• 11-18 Mar 2024: Kapatika H. (Visit) NIHSS funded IKS Research Trip to Tanzania, Dar es Salaam @ UDSM
• 14 Mar 2024: Postgraduate seminar on V. Mitova’s forthcoming paper: “Decolonising Experts” as part of Postgraduate Philosophy’s Seminar Series @ Uni Melbourne.
• Apr 2024:听ACEPS Postgrads Term 2 research and reading group schedule听@ ACEPS-UJ
• 5 Apr 2024:听ACEPS PGs and PDRFs WIP Workshop听@ ACEPS-UJ
• 15 Apr 2024: Postgraduate seminar on V. Mitova’s: “Decolonial Epistemic Authority Reparations” with the African Philosophy Reading Group @ online ACEPS-Zurich Uni.
• 05 May 2024: Congrats to ACEPS postdoc Dr Paige Benton, awarded R150,000 as part of听 GES Workshop Series Seminars: 鈥淭he Political Epistemology of 4IR听Data, Democracy and Discourse: Unpacking 4IR鈥檚 Political and Epistemic Impact鈥�
• 15 May 2024: Seminar on V. Mitova鈥檚: “Social Group Moral Encroachment” with the Social Epistemology Group in Seville (GRESS) @ online Seville Uni.
• 12 – 13 Jun 2024: Moletsane, D. (Talk & Panel Discussion). “” as part of the on the Controversies in the use of race and other human categorisations in the South African higher education sector @ Uni Stellenbosch
• 14 Jun 2024:听ACEPS PGs and PDRFs WIP Workshop听@ ACEPS-UJ
• 26-27 Jun 2024: Benton, P. (Talk) “AI and Democracy: Justification of a Broad View of Public Reason” , themed 鈥淏uilding a Just AI Ecosystem in Africa” @ Research ICT Africa, Cape Town
• July 2024: ACEPS Postgrads Term 3 research and reading group schedule听@ ACEPS-UJ
• 2-14 July 2024: Singh, A. (Visit)听As part of听Philosophy through Indigenous Knowledge in the Global South project听funded by听 (NIHSS) @ .
• 2 July 2024: Mitova, V. (Talk) “Epistemic Decolonisation and epistemic in/justice” as part of Decolonising Systems of Knowledge Symposium for PhD candidates hybrid @ CSDA-UJ
• 4 July 2024: Mitova, V. (Talk) “Why epistemic decolonisation in Africa?” as part of Philosophy Lecture Series hybrid @ NOUN
• 8-10 July 2024: Benton, P. (Talk) “AI Knowledge-making Powers: A Threat to Rawlsian Justice” at 鈥淟ooking back, moving forward: Re-assessing technology regulation in digitalized worlds鈥� @ Tilburg Uni.
• 10 July 2024: Singh, A. (Talk) Normative Personhood: African and Indian Perspectives @
• 11-12 July 2024: Lebakeng, G. (Talk) at Feminist Philosophy Conference @ 欧美福利100000 of KwaZulu-Natal.
• 14 Aug 2024: Kapatika,H.W. (Talk) “Why Epistemicide Matters: The Historical Problem of Knowledge in Africa in the 21st Century” as part of 鲍碍窜狈鈥揢狈滨窜鲍尝鲍 Philosophy Seminar Series 14h00–15h30 @ online听
• 15-16 Aug 2024: Kubeka,N.Z. (Invite) Reassessing linguistic continuity in the Black Archive @ Black Archive Symposium – Second Meeting.
• 10-12 Sep 2024: Mitova, V. (Keynote) The impossibility of structural epistemic reparations @ Epistemic Blame and Epistemic Reparations 2nd Workshop 听part of听听funded by听听@听Winnipeg 鈥斕�U of Brandon
• 10-12 Sep 2024: de Rijk, S. (Invite) Toxic Positivity, the Right to Be Known, and Epistemic Reparations @ Epistemic Blame and Epistemic Reparations 2nd Workshop 听part of听听funded by听听@听Winnipeg 鈥斕�U of Brandon
• 17-19 Sep 2024: Benton, P. (Talk)听at 听@ .
• 20 Sep 2024: Benton, P. (Participate) at 听@ .
• 25 Nov 2024: Kubeka, N.Z.(Invite) Linguistic Justice as an Epistemic reparation @ Linguistic Justice Society.

Celebrations 2024

• Jan 2024: Tobi, A. (PostDoc Fellowship) ACEPS PhD graduate awarded a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship for his project 鈥淢arginal Epistemic Injustice鈥� at (C1RC-IAE) and the Centre for Research in Ethics (CRE) @ Uni Quebec-Montreal.
• 2 Jan 2024: ACEPS welcomes听4 new Postdoctoral Research Fellows听鈥� Drs: Paige Benton, Garikai Madavo, Paul Michael, Uchenna Ogbonnaya
• 5 Feb 2024: Congrats to Dr Paige Benton, ACEPS PDRF,听 recipient of the 2024 GES 4.0 Fellowship!
• 9 Feb 2024: Mitova, V. (Visiting Fellowship) 6 week RSSS Fellowship @ ANU
• 5 Mar 2024: Rybko, C. Currently completing her PhD appointed a temporary lecturer at Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics @ Uni Witwatersrand.
• 3 Apr 2024: UJ Graduation for ACEPS 3 newest PhDs (l-r):听Dr Abraham Tejiri Tobi, their supervisor Prof Veli Mitova, Dr听 Dimpho Takane Maponya and Dr Akanimo Andrew Akpan
• 05 May 2024: Congrats to ACEPS postdoc Dr Paige Benton, awarded R150,000 as part of听 GES Workshop Series Seminars: 鈥淭he Political Epistemology of 4IR听Data, Democracy and Discourse: Unpacking 4IR鈥檚 Political and Epistemic Impact鈥�

Publications in 2024

• Chukwu, E., Mitova, V., et al. (2024) Evidence-based Policy Making in the Face of Uncertainty. BMJ Public Health.doi:10.1136/ bmjph-2023-000694
• De Rijk, S. (2024) . South African Journal of Philosophy, 43:1, 57-69
• Grossman, I., Mitova, V., et al. (2024) . Nature Communications.
• Heseen, R. et al., Mitova, V. (2024) . Scientific Reports.
• Lebakeng, G. (2024) The Power-Corruption Link in Politics: A Philosophical Analysis. OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, 17 (11), 195-206.
• Machery, E. et al., Mitova, V. (2024)听. 狈辞没蝉.
• Michael, P. (2024) . Africa Today, 71(2): 51-67
• Mitova, V. (2024) . Episteme, 20(4): 894-911.
• Mitova, V. (2024) Decolonising Experts. In Farina, M., Lavazza, A. and Pritchard, D. (Eds.) Expertise: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 253鈥�273). Oxford: Oxford 欧美福利100000 Press.
• Mitova, V. (2024) Inquiry.
• Mitova, V. (2024) Wilful Hermeneutical Injustice to the (Qualified) Rescue of Knowledge-first. In Logins, A. and Vollet, J. (Eds.) Putting Knowledge to Work. New York: Oxford 欧美福利100000 Press.
• Rudnev, M., Mitova, V. (2024) . The Conversation Africa from the Templeton funded
• Schneider, M. et al., Mitova, V. (2024) . Nature Human Behaviour.

Talks, Visits and Fellowships in 2023

• 16-18 Jan 2023: (Talks) Philosophical Society of Southern Africa Conference (PSSA) by ACEPS members: Andrew Akpan, Shen茅 de Rijk, Chad Harris, Gontse Lebakeng, Dimpho Maponya, Veli Mitova, Ben Smart and Abe Tobi @ Uni Johannesburg.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 25 Jan 2023: “Can Theorising Epistemic Injustice Help Us Decolonise” @ Arctic Uni, Norway.
• Mitova, V. (Visit) 20-24 Feb 2023: Collaboration with听 project @ Melbourne Uni.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 20 Feb 2023: “Decolonising Experts” for 听Workshop @ Melbourne Uni.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 21 Feb 2023: Forum on “Decolonizing the philosophy curriculum 鈥� experiences from South Africa” @ Melbourne Uni.
• Mitova, V. (Written response) 23 Feb 2023: Cluster-Initiative “Ethics for Sciences”: Advisory听Board Workshop @ Uni G枚ttingen.
• Maponya, D. (Interview) 26 Feb 2023: On PowerFM听.
• 1 March 2023: Lebakeng, G. Appointed as an nGAP Lecturer听@ 欧美福利100000 of Zululand
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 3 Mar 2023: “Decolonising Experts” for online talk series on underrepresented groups in philosophy and academia run by 听@ Uni of Quebec at Montreal.
• 9 Mar 2023: (Talks) Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Decolonisation Workshop co-organised with 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 听 (live Uni Tilburg)
• 30 Mar 2023: (Talks) TILT Seminar 鈥� 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鈥� by Ezgi Sertler at the 听 in San Francisco.
• Mitova, V. (Visiting Fellowship) 1 May 2023: A 2 month Fellowship with the 2023 ZiF Project “” @ Uni Bielefeld.
• Maponya, D. (Invite) 5 May 2023: “African Feminism” UJ-Redlands Symposium @ UJ.
• Mitova, V. (Participant) 11-12 May 2023: @ Uni Bielefeld.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 23 May 2023: 鈥�” @ Uni Bielefeld.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 31 May 2023: 鈥淕roup Moral Encroachment鈥� 听@ Uni Cologne.
• Tobi, A. (Invite) 1-2 Jun 2023: “鈥� workshop @ TU Berlin.
• Meylan, A., Mitova, V., Schmidt, S. (Talk) 3 Jun 2023: “Conspiracy Theories and Marginalization_ A New Argument for Particularism” 听听@ VU Amsterdam.
• Mitova, V., Schwenkenbecher, A. (Invite) 15 Jun 2023 “Ethics in Evidence Based Policy” @ 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: 鈥淪ocial Group Moral Encroachment鈥� Episteme Annual Conference听Zanzibar.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 14-15 Jul 2023: 鈥淓pistemic Authority Reparations” Episteme Writing Workshop听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 听part of funded by @ Quamajuc Museum, Winnipeg @ Uni Brandon
• Kapatika, H. (Talk) 27 Oct 2023: “” at the (ASAA), Lubumbashi.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 6 Nov 2023: ““ at Collective Ethics seminar @ Vienna Uni.
• Mitova, V. (Visit) Nov 2023:听2 week visit as part of Philosophy through Indigenous Knowledge in the Global South project听funded by (NIHSS) @ Goa Uni & Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 21 Nov 2023: Reparations-Decolonisations-Just Transitions @ IIT Delhi.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 23 Nov 2023: Decolonial Epistemic Authority – Reparations @ Goa Uni.
• Mitova, V. (Award) 30 Nov 2023: Dean鈥檚 Award for Outstanding Academic Citizenship
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 14-16 Dec 2023: Forum on outcome of the 2023 ZiF Project “” @ Uni Bielefeld.

Publications in 2023

• Mitova, V. (2023)听. Erkenntnis, 88(5): 1911-1933.
• Mitova, V. (2023) Social Epistemology, 37(6): 739-752.
• Mitova, V. (2023) . Metaphilosophy, 54(4): 539鈥�552.
• Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) Motivated Irrationality, Epistemic Innocence, White Ignorance. Philosophical Topics.
• Serote, M. (2023) Mme Ruth Mompati: A Life of Courage and Service. Johannesburg: Seriti sa Sechaba Publishers.
• Tobi, A. (2023) . Social Epistemology, 37(6): 798-809.
• Tobi, A. (2023) . South African Journal of Philosophy, 41(4): 337-346.