Annual Cluster Conference "Spatialities": Keynote - Tendayi Sithole
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As part of the Cluster's international conference on "Spatialities" Tendayi Sithole held a keynote lecture titled: "Azania: Extended Notes on Black Radical Thought - in Dialogue with Bruce Janz (UC Florida)".
Tendayi Sithole is Professor in the Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa. He is also a Senior Research Associate at the Institue for Pan-African Thought and Conversation, University of Johannesburg. Sithole's scholarly books are "Refiguring in Black" (Cambridge, Polity Press, 2023), "The Letter in Black Radical Thought" (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023), "Mabogo P. More: Philosophical Anthropology in Azania" (New York: Rowman and Littlefield International, 2022), "The Black Register" (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2020), and "Steve Biko: Decolonial Meditations of Black Consciousness (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016). His book "Black X: Liberatory Thought in Azania" is forthcoming with Wits University Press in 2024. Currently, Sithole is conducting research for a biography provisionally titled "Vinny da Vinci: A Portrait".
Bruce Janz is Professor in the Department of Philosophy, co-director of the Center for Humanities and Digital Research, and core faculty in the Texts and Technology program, all at the University of Central Florida. He teaches and writes on African philosophy, cultural philosophy, contemporary European philosophy, digital humanities, and questions of place and space across many disciplines. He has taught in Canada, Kenya, South Africa, and the US. His most recent book is "African Philosophy and Enactivist Cognition: The Space of Thoght" (Bloomsbury, 2023).
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- Annual Cluster Conference "Spatialities": Keynote - Tendayi Sithole
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- English
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- Conference Spatilities 2023
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- November 10, 2023
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- uh good evening I think we can start now so that we we stick to the time which we have been allocated my name is Sai I chair of epistemologies of the global South here with easis on Africa and I'm also the vice de for research in the Africa multiple cluster of excellence and it is my pleasure to introduce the second keynote we had the first keynote yesterday and this is the second one and my duty is very straightforward is to introduce the speaker and the discussion and then I moderate the session and the speaker is none other than Professor tend to whom I know very well I don't want to give you details of where we know each other from but he is a professor in the department of political sciences at the University of South Africa where I spent a decade he is also a senior research associate at The Institute of Pana African thought and conversation at the University of Johannesburg he is a very prolific scholar I thought the disease which affected me it looks like it transferred to him and I hope I will be better [Laughter] now he in 2023 alone he published two books refiguring in Black which is published by polity press and the letter in Black radical thought which is published by Lexington books and in 2022 he published a book entitled M philosophical anthropology in AIA published by lickfield International and in 2020 he published one of the books of the books which I like so much which is the black register published by po press and which is the book which met me really to propose his name as a keynote here I know for him all his books are like his children you can't say this one I like it this one I don't like it but as for me I have the freedom to say I like this [Laughter] one and there is also another book which he published in 2016 Steve B de Colonial meditations of play Consciousness published by Lexington books and in 2024 were looking forward to his other book Black X liberal thought in aania which is going to be published by vet University press and… Read the full text about 12,458 words
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