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Hi All



Please would you invite your collective/ and or department/ and interested
friends and colleagues to the public lecture and open workshop below which
is taking place at Wits this weekend.



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


+27 (0)72 229 9613
katej...@gmail.com