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Previous Years Events & Visitors

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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 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!
  • 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
  • 5 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 Data, Democracy and Discourse: Unpacking 4IR鈥檚 Political and Epistemic Impact鈥�
  • 22 Oct 2024: Rybko, C. ACEPS PhD graduate appointed a permanent lecturer at Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics @ Uni Witwatersrand.

Visitors 2024

  • Jan 2024: (Miami U) on a 1 week research collaboration visit.
  • Jan 2024: (U of Georgia) on a 2 week research collaboration visit.
  • Jan 2024:听 ( U of Quebec at Montreal) on a 1 week research collaboration visit.
  • Jan 2024: (Zhejiang U) on a 1 week research collaboration visit.
  • Apr 2024: (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: PhD Candidate from the Department of Philosophy at the 欧美福利100000 of Arkansas Fayetteville on a 1 week research visit.
  • Oct 2024: from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, is a 4IR funded Visiting Professor and a return visitor to ACEPS. is a Professor of Philosophy @ Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Both visitors are on 1 week research collaboration visits.
  • Oct 2024: Professor of Philosophy and Director of the ANU Gender Institute @ Australian National 欧美福利100000 on a 2 week research collaboration visit.
  • Nov 2024: is a senior Lecturer @ Zefat Academic College (Israel) on a 1 week research collaboration visit.

2023 Events

Visitors 2023

  • Jan-Feb: with the Graduate Program in Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic 欧美福利100000 of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS), 1 month research visitor听 to ACEPS and UJ Philosophy Department.
  • Feb: is a doctoral researcher on a 1 week visit from听 Tilburg Law School with a focus on Epistemic Justice.
  • Mar: and post-doctoral fellow visitors for a week from the Institute for European Global Studies, 欧美福利100000 of Basel, part of the SNSF project .
  • Apr-May: (Uni Brandon) is the Chair of Philosophy, on a collaboration visit on the Epistemic Blame and Reparations project, funded by .
  • July: (Uni Lund) is a doctoral student in Practical Philosophy and is visiting ACEPS for 2 weeks, funded by Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM).
  • July: (Uni Lund) is a Marie Sk艂odowska鈥揅urie Fellow in Philosophy and visitor to ACEPS for 2 weeks.
  • Aug 2023: (UKZN) is a Philosophy Professor, 欧美福利100000 of KwaZulu-Natal.
  • Nov 2023: is a Research Fellow at the Responsible and Sustainable Business Centre, Nottingham Trent 欧美福利100000 and ACEPS RA on a 1 week visit.

2022 Events

Past Events

Reading Groups

(Kent Uni & UJ – Newton grant)
Discuss two related papers for 2 hours via Zoom at 1500 South African time, 1400 BTS, 1300 GMT.

  • 01 Oct 2021 3pm: Emmalon Davis – Epistemic Appropriation & Gaile Pohlhaus – Epistemic Agency under Oppression.
  • 22 Oct 2021 3pm: Trip Glazer – Epistemic Violence and Emotional Misrecognition & Chap 5 (Misrecognition: Political Reform or Reconciliation): Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed’s book ‘Madness and the Demand for Recognition’.
  • 12 Nov 2021 3pm: two papers concerning online epistimology.
  • 18 Feb 2022 3pm: two papers from Olivia Bailey: & .
  • 18 Mar 2022 3pm: , by James Laidlaw:听 in conjunction with Vargas, Manuel R. (2018).. In Hutchison, Katrina , Mackenzie, Catriona and Marina Oshana (eds.) Social Dimensions of Moral Responsibility. Oxford: OUP
  • Apr-Jul 2022 3pm: every 3rd Fri of the month.

 

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

  • (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.
  • (Uni Brandon) is Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Brandon. He is a Visiting Researcher Nov鈥揇ec 2021 and May鈥揓uly 2022, collaborating with ACEPS on a future grant proposal on epistemic blame and decolonisation.
  • (Uni Zurich) is a Visiting Research Fellow from the Z眉rich Epistemology Group on Rationality (Zegra) Feb鈥揗arch 2022.
  • (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) An Epistemology of the 4IR project funded researcher for a 2 week visit. (Aug 2022)
  • (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) has been appointed a Visiting Professor specialising in Social Epistemology of the Internet.
  • (Uni Northwestern) has been appointed a Visiting Professor specialising in Critical Race and Gender/Queer theory