[Aribiah Attoe]

International Workshop in Honour of Professor Emmanuel Kofi Ackah

Theme: Rationality and Human Development: Reflections on the Works of Prof. Emmanuel Kofi Ackah

The Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, humbly invites you to an international workshop with a ceremony in honour of Prof. Emmanuel Kofi Ackah for his immeasurable contribution to the discipline of Classics here at the University of Ghana. The one-day international workshop will bring together scholars to engage with the ideas and works of Prof Kofi Ackah.

Date: Tuesday 1st September, 2026

Time: 9am to 4:30pm

Venue: Cedi Conference Centre Seminar Rm 2 and Online via Microsoft Teams

Speakers:
Prof. Rachel Barney (University of Toronto)
Prof. Hendrik Lorenz (University of Princeton)
Prof. Frisbee Sheffield (University of Cambridge)
Dr. Richmond Kwesi (University of Ghana)
Dr. Stephen Peprah (University of Ghana)
Mr. Michael Okyere Asante (University of Cambridge/UESD, Somanya)
Mrs. Gifty Etornam Katahena (University of Ghana)

All are cordially invited to join the workshop online: https://bit.ly/4wVD0ox

If you plan to participate in the workshop in-person at the venue, kindly send an email to rkw...@ug.edu.gh

The workshop is sponsored by the Classics Beyond Borders initiative, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. 

Best wishes,

Michael

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Michael K. Okyere Asante

Faculty of Classics

University of Cambridge

mo...@cam.ac.uk

+44 (0) 755 566 9349

Aribiah David Attoe, PhD

ORCID No.: 0000-0001-9786-1824

Department of Philosophy

University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

Member, The Conversational School of Philosophy, Calabar, Nigeria

Co-author: New Conversations on the Problem of Identity, Consciousness and Mind (Springer, 2019)

Guest Editor: "Special Issue on African Conceptions of the Meaning of Life", South African Journal of Philosophy (2020)

Author: Groundwork for a New Kind of African Metaphysics: The Idea of Predeterministic Historicity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Co-recipient: John Templeton Fund, via the Global Philosophy of Religion Project Grant, University of Birmingham.

IEP Entry: https://iep.utm.edu/afr-mean/

Co-Guest Editor: Special Issue on "Shifting Perspectives on Contemporary African Philosophy of Religion", Religious Studies (2022).

Co-Guest Editor: Special Issue on "African Perspectives on God, the Problem of Evil and Meaning in Life", Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religion (2022).

Editor: African Perspectives on the Question of Life's Meaning (Routledge, 2023)
Co-editor: Conversations on African Philosophy of Mind, Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence (Springer)

Author: The Question of Life's Meaning: An African Perspective (Palgrave)