Early-bird registration ends this Saturday 25 October 2025 for PSSA Annual Conference, Cape Town, 23–25 January 2026

[PSSA 2026]

The annual conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa (PSSA) takes place at the University of Cape Town, 23–25 January 2026. Please see poster attached.

 

The conference attendance fees for delegates whose primary affiliation is a higher education institution within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) area are:

 

·         Student ZAR690/Non-student ZAR1,500, if the funds transfer is completed before the end of Saturday 25 October 2025

 

·         Student ZAR920/Non-student ZAR2,150, if the funds transfer is completed after the end of Saturday 25 October 2025

 

Please e-mail PSSA...@gmail.com to request the Application Form.

 

Proof of payment (an unactioned internal institutional purchase order does not qualify) should be e-mailed to PSSA...@gmail.com.

 

Student delegates from the SADC area whose abstract has been accepted can apply for financial support from the PSSA to help cover the costs of attending this conference, if they cannot secure funding from their home university for this. All queries to PSSA...@gmail.com.

About the keynote speakers

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò is Professor of African Political Thought at Cornell University. He studied at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) and the University of Toronto. His book How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa was joint winner of the Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award of the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2016. His other books include Legal Naturalism, Africa Must Be Modern, Against Decolonisation, Does the U.S. Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission? and Can a Liberal Be a Chief? Can a Chief Be a Liberal?

Sara Heinämaa is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Vice-president of the Philosophical Society of Finland, and a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. She studied at the University of Helsinki and held the Gadamer Chair at Boston College in 2025. She is author of Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference and co-editor of New Perspectives on Aristotelianism and Its Critics, Consciousness, Psychology and Philosophy, Contemporary Phenomenologies of Normativity, Values of Love and Ethical Reflection, Phenomenology as Critique and Chiasmic Encounters.

Catarina Dutilh Novaes is Professor and University Research Chair in Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She was a professorial fellow at Arché, St Andrews, from 2019 to 2024 and is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She studied at the University of São Paulo and Leiden University. Her book The Dialogical Roots of Deduction won the Lakatos Award in 2022. She is also author of Formal Languages in Logic and Formalizing Medieval Logic Theories, and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic and Insolubles and Consequences.

Accommodation in Upper Campus Residence (directly adjoining the conference venue)

 

For a stay of four nights (22–26 January), including breakfast in the UCR dining hall each morning and annual membership of the PSSA at no extra charge:

• Student ZAR626.50 per night (single room)

• Non-student (apart from assoc prof/prof) ZAR714 per night (single room)

• Assoc prof/prof ZAR839 per night (single room)

[Shoeshoe Moshoeshoe]

Good afternoon,

I apologise for replying this late. May I please request for an invoice for the registration fee and accommodation?

Thank you.

N.Rykdom

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