Public Lecture & Saturday Workshop, FRI 28 SEPT, 16:00 & SAT 29 SEPT, 9:30 - Philosophy Born of Struggle: Race and Feminist Politics with Rozena Maart
Kate Joseph
Hi All
Public lecture and open workshop below which is taking place at Wits this weekend.
Please send on to interested parties.
PHILOSOPHY BORN OF STRUGGLE: Critical Philosophy of Race and the Possibility of Feminist Politics
with Rozena Maart
Lecture:
FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
16:00 - 18:00
SH 3123 COMM
Open Workshop:
SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER
9:30 - 15:30
CB 107 School of Social Sciences Common Room
The first part of this title is borrowed from Leonard Harris’s edited collection wherein he addresses how various philosophies in the history of the United States emerged as a result of the struggle for human rights and human dignity.
In a similar vein, I argue that Black Consciousness, Pan Africanism and Pan Arabism emerged out of the struggle for liberation from White domination, racism and colonialism. Traditional European Philosophy has ignored these philosophical contributions or rendered them insignificant within the canon continuing to reproduce and maintain what Jacques Derrida calls, ‘White Mythology'.
In this presentation I offer an understanding and an analysis of Black Consciousness, Derridean deconstruction and Psychoanalysis as central to a critical philosophy of race and suggest how it informs feminist and anti-colonial politics.
All are welcome,
Event is presented through the Faculty of Humanities SPARC 2012 Programme
Rozena Maart is an Associate Professor at the University of Kwa Zulu Natal, Durban, South Africa, and Head of Gender Studies. She was born in District Six, Cape Town.
She writes both fiction and non-fiction and won "The Journey Prize: Best Short Fiction in Canada 1992," for "No Rosa, No District Six," which later, when part of a collection titled, Rosa's District Six, made the best seller list in Canada and the HOMEBRU list in South Africa.
At age 24 in 1987 she was nominated as "woman of the year," for her
work in the area of violence against women and for starting, with four women,
the first Black feminist organisation in South Africa, Women Against
Repression in the previous year.
She took her Masters degree at the University of York, UK, in 1988 and her doctoral degree at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, Univ. of Birmingham, UK, in Political Philosophy and Psychoanalysis.
She works within the intersections of Political Philosophy, Black Consciousness, Derrida and deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Critical Race Theory and Feminist Theory.
She is currently the African regional co-ordinator of the UNESCO Scientific Committee SOPHITHINK and the African regional co-ordinator of the group's project, South-South dialogues Philosophical Thinking a UNESCO funded project, which is part of SOPHITHINK, a group of international Philosophers working towards educational packages for students at High Schools, Colleges, and first year University, in an effort to promote Philosophies that have been marginalised by the history of Philosophy itself.
Kate Joseph
Antje Schuhmann
You are invited for the public lecture and open workshop below which is taking place at Wits this weekend.
She is currently the African regional co-ordinator of the UNESCO Scientific Committee SOPHITHINK and the African regional co-ordinator of the group's project, South-South dialogues Philosophical Thinking a UNESCO funded project, which is part of SOPHITHINK, a group of international Philosophersworking towards educational packages for students at High Schools, Colleges, and first year University, in an effort to promote Philosophies that have been marginalised by the history of Philosophy itself.
