15 Nov 2025: 13th Wild Coast Philosophy Symposium, Chintsa, Eastern Cape
Pedro Tabensky
Dear Colleagues and Friends
Scroll down. This may interest some of you. There is a R700 conference fee that includes lunch and refreshments on the day of the event, and it must be paid directly to Crawfords Beach Lodge upon arrival.
This is a relaxed event designed to test new ideas on a common theme.
Best, Pedro
13th Annual Wild Coast Philosophy Symposium
Theme: Siyavuma!
Crawfords Beach Lodge, Chintsa
15 November 2025
Organisers: Chris Allsobrook, University of Fort Hare
Pedro Tabensky, Rhodes University
PROGRAMME
08:30 – 9:00 Tea/Coffee/Welcoming
Session 1
09:00 – 09.30
Bernard Matolino: Consent in Consensus
Respondent: Abraham Olivier
09:30 – 10:00
Pedro Tabensky: Agreement as the ground for dissent
Respondent: Siphosethu Baleni
10:00 – 10:30
Danelle Fourie: Flow: A cat’s leap of faith
Respondent: Werner Smith
10:30 – 11:00 Tea/Coffee break
Session 2
11:00 – 11:30
Thabang Dladla: Siyavuma Sofasonke: The idea of consensus in Black Radical formations
Respondent: Yolanda and Yoliswa Mlungwana
11:20 – 12:00
Keolebogile Mbebe: On the delusion of unity without union
Respondent: Lindsay Kelland
12:00 – 12:30
Gugu Ndlazi: Siyavuma in Ubungoma
Respondent: Yolanda and Yoliswa Mlungwana
12:30 –14:00 Lunch
Session 3
14:00 –14:30
Londiwe Xaba: An ecological accord: How viable is an African environmental ethics of agreement with non-human entities?
Respondent: Ryan Roos
14:30 –15:00
Carien Smith: Framing scientific consensus as the product of a deliberative democratic process
Respondents: Jean du Toit
15:30 –16:00
Justin Sands: Interruptions and Siyavuma! Theology in a Relational Context
Respondents: Bianca Jewel Phillips
16:00–16:30 Tea/Coffee break
16:30 –17:00
Close: Discussion on 2026 topic.
Njingalwazi Pedro Tabensky
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