GloPhi - Philosophizing in a Globalized World

02/06/2026

Live Stream today at 2 p.m. (CEST)! Lecture by Prof. Dr. Sanya Osha: A Transcontinental Pendulum: African and Afro-Brazilian Epistemic Continuities.

Linke to the Live Stream:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3stth6avdg

Abstract:

The evolution of African and Afro-Brazilian philosophical discourses has never really trailed the accepted genealogies created by Euro-American philosophy. The path it adopted, rather, is checkered by the seismic ordeals of slavery, colonisation, chronic demotic displacement, cultural alienation and uneven socioeconomic development. Furthermore, it was shaped largely by disruptive scripts of resistance and the often unpredictable quest for epistemic agency.

Such a considerable amount of disruption, colonial trauma and misappropriation have meant we have to seek philosophical truth and meaning in what would seem to be unusual sites — for instance, in some of the more elusive narratives of Yorùbá cosmology vis a vis Euro-American philosophy, or in apparently seismic disruptions of ontology and erased or minoritised presences in a fervent search for discursive recognition, affirmation and epistemic autochthony.

These presences, or rather, beings, manifest in concealed and occluded paths of travel, forced migration and widespread cultural rupture, dislocation, displacement, (re)connection, (dis)continuity and bricolage; in traumatic movements between the Gulf of Benin (West Africa) and Salvador de Bahia (Brazil); in wilful spells and ordeals of sequestration and ambivalent intimations of liberty. But these shifts, more than anything else, proclaim the promise of eventual release even as the pathways of freedom, to the unpractised eye, seem wholly concealed. This necessary account of concealment, displacement and dislocation is, in fact, motivated primarily by an unequivocal decolonial impulse.

Even more, this is an exercise in epistemic recovery, (re)establishing cultural symmetries — and also asymmetries — after multiple and prolonged ruptures. This exercise is not an attempt to produce a chronologically neat account of decoloniality and suggests, instead, that such histories are necessarily fragmentary and incomplete — and hence fraught — but nonetheless attest to the verities of multiple presences previously erased or occluded in metanarratives of human resistance, rejuvenation and re-invention. And finally, the perspectives rendered here are altogether an attempt to delineate the effervescent boundaries of this seemingly unregulated impulse of decolonial resistance, reconfiguration of collective subjectivity, and existential recognition.

01/06/2026

A Transcontinental Pendulum: African and Afro-Brazilian Epistemic Continuities, Lecture by Sanya Osha

GloPhi Center (Main Campus, H.0.10) & Live Stream
2 June 2026, 2 p.m. (CEST)

Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3stth6avdg

The evolution of African and Afro-Brazilian philosophical discourses has never really trailed the accepted genealogies created by Euro-American philosophy. The path it adopted, rather, is checkered by the seismic ordeals of slavery, colonisation, chronic demotic displacement, cultural alienation and uneven socioeconomic development. Furthermore, it was shaped largely by disruptive scripts of resistance and the often unpredictable quest for epistemic agency.

Such a considerable amount of disruption, colonial trauma and misappropriation have meant we have to seek philosophical truth and meaning in what would seem to be unusual sites — for instance, in some of the more elusive narratives of Yorùbá cosmology vis a vis Euro-American philosophy, or in apparently seismic disruptions of ontology and erased or minoritised presences in a fervent search for discursive recognition, affirmation and epistemic autochthony.

These presences, or rather, beings, manifest in concealed and occluded paths of travel, forced migration and widespread cultural rupture, dislocation, displacement, (re)connection, (dis)continuity and bricolage; in traumatic movements between the Gulf of Benin (West Africa) and Salvador de Bahia (Brazil); in wilful spells and ordeals of sequestration and ambivalent intimations of liberty. But these shifts, more than anything else, proclaim the promise of eventual release even as the pathways of freedom, to the unpractised eye, seem wholly concealed. This necessary account of concealment, displacement and dislocation is, in fact, motivated primarily by an unequivocal decolonial impulse.

Even more, this is an exercise in epistemic recovery, (re)establishing cultural symmetries — and also asymmetries — after multiple and prolonged ruptures. This exercise is not an attempt to produce a chronologically neat account of decoloniality and suggests, instead, that such histories are necessarily fragmentary and incomplete — and hence fraught — but nonetheless attest to the verities of multiple presences previously erased or occluded in metanarratives of human resistance, rejuvenation and re-invention. And finally, the perspectives rendered here are altogether an attempt to delineate the effervescent boundaries of this seemingly unregulated impulse of decolonial resistance, reconfiguration of collective subjectivity, and existential recognition.

30/05/2026

Silence, Exclusion, and Recovery: Feminist Philosophy in Modern India, Lecture by Priyanka Jha

Center for Gender Studies, Hildesheim University
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 | 6-8 p.m. | HC.N.0.09

http://glophi.com/2026/05/30/feminist-philosophy-india/

Among the philosophical traditions engaging the human condition in Modern India, a significant strand is gendered and feminist thought. This tradition has co-existed within broader philosophical discussions. Yet, larger historical accounts often overlook this tradition.

Such omission arises from not recognising women thinkers as philosophers or relegating their work to abstract ‘musings’ rather than sustained philosophical reasoning—a result of how ‘the Canon’ is established. Global feminist critique of a male-centric canon has highlighted and challenged these erasures. This lecture, from a postcolonial feminist lens, directly addresses these gaps by re-examining what is often seen as scattered writings or abstractions, reframing them as a continuous tradition of feminist philosophical engagement with the human condition.

The lecture focuses on late 19th- and early 20th-century Colonial India and also recovers the long tradition of Feminist Philosophy in ancient India by examining its nature, sites, and modes of dissemination. Specifically, the study explains orality through the Bhakti tradition of the 8th Century, showing how it shapes modern feminist philosophical thought in India.

The lecture challenges the erasure of this tradition by tracing the politics of Canon and showing how the frames of conventional philosophy are used to marginalise alternative perspectives. Women philosophers are often labelled as social reformers, writers, or culturalists instead of as philosophers. This lecture argues for recognition of embodiment and experiential knowledge as core to Indian Women’s Philosophy, adding to the larger global feminist philosophical quest of an inclusive canon.

The key questions that foreground this lecture are as follows:
1. Who is a Philosopher? What are the markers / metrics of a work that make the work Philosophical?
2. What is the criterion for a philosopher to be included or excluded from the Canon? What are the reasons for these exclusions (largely women and other gendered beings)?
3. What does this exclusion tell us about the Politics of Canon? 4. What does “inclusion” even mean for the excluded? Should the marginalised be working towards inclusion or the deconstruction of the canon itself?
4. What are the sites of Philosophy? Is it in the Ivory towers of the university, academia, where Philosophy takes place or the habitus, social world, everyday, or the mundane, also the sites of Philosophy?

29/05/2026

We had a great discussion with author Philipp Valentini on his new book "On the Affective Moods of Being: A Philosophical Exploration of Affects in Ibrahim Niasse’s Thought". The talk focused on his creative interpretation of Ibrahim Niasse (1900–1975), a Senegalese reformer of the Tijānī Sufi order, featuring debates on the phenomenology of atmospheres, mood as an epistemic and ontological category, and the process of translation as an act of creating new orders of thought.

28/05/2026

Phänomenologie der Situation & Situierte Lektüren
Workshop, organisiert von Thomas Bedorf & Abbed Kanoor

In Kooperation mit der FernUniversität in Hagen & der DGFP, FernUniversität in Hagen, 25. – 26. Juni 2026

Im Gegensatz zur (post-)cartesianischen Philosophie der Moderne, die von einer homogenen und neutralen Räumlichkeit ausgeht, ist die Phänomenologie für eine Reflexion der Situiertheit prädestiniert, insofern der Ort und die Räumlichkeit grundlegende Bedeutung für die sinnhafte Orientierung in der Welt ist.

Der Leib-Körper stellt hierbei nicht einfach eine Position unter anderen dar, die sich in einem vorgegebenen Koordinatensystem verorten ließe. Vielmehr ist er selbst die unhintergehbare Bedingung von Koordinaten – als Ausgangspunkt aller Orientierung und Sinngebung. Damit tritt nicht nur die leibliche Verfasstheit unserer Erfahrung in den Vordergrund, sondern ebenso die konkrete Situiertheit des Denkens in Sprache, Geschichte, Kultur usw. Diese situierte Perspektive auf konkrete Beziehungen zwischen Ort, Raum und Subjektivität ist zugleich in anderem Erkenntnisinteresse in feministischen, interkulturellen und rassismuskritischen Wissenskontexten herausgearbeitet worden.

Da Erfahrungen immer situiert sind, bedarf es eines reflexiven Prozesses, um die Situiertheit von Erfahrungen transparent zu machen und sich dazu verhalten zu können. Für eine erfahrungsbasierte Philosophie wie die Phänomenologie ebenso wie für feministische, interkulturelle und rassismuskritische Theorien wird gelten müssen, dass sich auch ihre eigene Praxis diesem Prinzip nicht entziehen kann, d.h. dass auch die philosophische Theorie- und Lektürearbeit situiert ist.

Der Workshop greift die Reflexion der Situiertheit in zwei Schritten auf:

1) Phänomenologie der Situation: Wenn Situationen den Nullpunkt jeder Erfahrung darstellen, versteht sich doch nicht von selbst, als was Situationen zu gelten haben und wie sie zu begreifen sind. Ist die Situation selbst ein Phänomen – also etwas, das erscheint – oder bildet sie vielmehr die Bedingung der Möglichkeit von Erscheinung? Ist die Situation als Ort-Werdung des Raumes zu verstehen? Oder stellt umgekehrt der Raum eine höhere Konstitution dar, die sich aus der leiblich situierten Orthaftigkeit ergibt? Systematische theoretische Beiträge zu diesem ersten Aspekt widmen sich der Klärung dieser Fragen und untersuchen das Verhältnis von Ort und Raum, Leib und Körper, erlebter Situation und sozialer, politischer Position.

2) Situierte Lektüren: Dieser Teil des Workshops ist ein Lektüre-Experiment, das von der Hypothese ausgeht, dass sich die Situiertheit der philosophischen Arbeit auch in deren Resultaten zeigen muss. Je nachdem, wie ich situiert bin und wie ich damit umgehe, lese ich Texte entsprechend anders. Der Workshop will mit dieser Hypothese experimentieren, indem er jeweils zwei Leser:innen dieselbe Passage eines phänomenologischen Klassikers interpretieren lässt und dabei als Aufgabe stellt, die eigene Lektürearbeit zu reflektieren (also aus der Situation des Lesens auf die eigene Situiertheit zu reflektieren).

Weitere Informationen: https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2026/05/28/phanomenologie-situation/

26/05/2026

Going live!

Tlamatiliztli: The Wisdom of the Nahua People. Intercultural Philos...

25/05/2026

Tlamatiliztli: The Wisdom of the Nahua People. Intercultural Philosophy and Right to Land, Lecture by Osiris González

GloPhi Center (Main Campus, H.0.10) & Live Stream
19 May 2026, 2 p.m. (CEST) (Tomorrow!)

The aim of this presentation is the systematic analysis of the concept of wisdom developed by the Nahua people of Mexico based on historical sources and archaeological evidence, but also on the knowledge of contemporary indigenous communities and indigenous scholars. The aim of this study is to demonstrate how the cognitive structures embedded in indigenous languages are useful in the development of an intercultural epistemology.

This line of research is based on a trans-disciplinary approach, which requires the rigorous implementation of diverse methodologies that originate from different disciplinary areas such as historiography, ethnography, iconography, philology and sociolinguistics. But the most significant issue is the implementation of collaborative research methodologies, which takes into account the theoretical framework developed by Nahua scholars (mainly historians and linguists). Also, another specific objective is to prove how indigenous philosophies are compatible with the use of digital humanities. For this reason, the study is related to interviews and innovative educational materials spoken in Nahuatl.

The academic relevance of this research not only lies in the rigorous and systematic approach to the issue of indigenous philosophies, which faces lack of recognition, but also because the attempt to analyze these indigenous philosophies is useful to provide alternatives to understand the world based on a different ontology.

The development of an intercultural epistemology will be useful to face some misunderstandings caused by cultural colonization. The social relevance lies in the recognition of Nahua philosophy, which is related to the recognition of cultural rights as is stated in article 13 of the United Nations Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples UNDRIP. All the audio-visual materials and interviews included in this research were made with Free Prior and Informed Consent.

More information: http://glophi.com/2026/05/25/tlamatiliztli-wisdom/
Live Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFnixE16wtM

25/05/2026

Today!

22/05/2026

Prof. Sanya Osha Joins GloPhi to Explore Yorùbá Thought and Afro-Brazilian Epistemic Continuities

Prof. Sanya Osha will join the Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World” as a Fellow from March to June 2026. As part of GloPhi’s Yoruba language/philosophy focus, Osha will contribute to the Center’s ongoing work on African languages, intellectual traditions, and global histories of philosophizing. His research engages Pre-Socratic systems of thought, West African philosophy, Southern African belief systems, and Africana philosophy, with regional specializations in West Africa, Southern Africa, and the African diaspora. He philosophizes in English and Yoruba.

During his stay at GloPhi, Osha joins the Yoruba Language Focus to pursue a research project entitled “Major Concepts in Yoruba Cosmology and Epistemology.” The project investigates central concepts and features of Yoruba cosmology and epistemology, approaching Yoruba traditions as a rich field of philosophical reflection. It addresses questions of being and nothingness, God and god, monotheism and polytheism, faith and truth, the Ifa corpus, fetishism, cultism, determinism, conversion, modernity, and the newly coined concept of Global Yoruba.

In this context, Osha will also give a lecture entitled “A Transcontinental Pendulum: African and Afro-Brazilian Epistemic Continuities” as part of the lecture series Transatlantic Resonances. The lecture will explore the movements, transformations, and continuities of African epistemic traditions across the Atlantic, with particular attention to the ways in which African and Afro-Brazilian worlds of thought remain historically entangled.

By bringing Yoruba cosmology and epistemology into conversation with transcontinental forms of knowledge, Osha’s contribution will open up new perspectives on the philosophical significance of language, diaspora, memory, and cultural transmission. We warmly welcome Sanya Osha to GloPhi and look forward to his contributions to our conversations on African philosophy, Yoruba thought, Africana philosophy, and global histories of philosophizing.

22/05/2026

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

Papers may be submitted through the website of the Congress using the form soon available.
Only in exceptional circumstances can papers be submitted as an electronic version by attachment to an e-mail message addressed to the Japanese Organizing Committee. The submission address will be provided later.

Submissions should not exceed 1,800 words (or 3,000 characters for papers submitted in Chinese, or 4,000 characters for papers submitted in Japanese) and be accompanied by a max 200-word abstract (500 characters in Chinese, or 600 characters in Japanese), and max 5 keywords (in alphabetical order).

Submissions should clearly indicate the thematic section for which the paper is intended and shall be written in one of the official languages of the Congress: English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, and Japanese

The Organizing Committee reserves the right to accept or reject papers on the basis of scholarly quality. Only papers of a philosophical nature will be considered for inclusion in the program.

WCP Tokyo 2028
https://wcptokyo2028.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1stcircular2028tokyowcp_vers.2.pdf
The World Congress of Philosophy (originally known as the International Congress of Philosophy) is a global meeting of philosophers held every five years under the auspices of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP). The congress has been held in various cities around the world since first organized in 1900 in Paris, firmly established in the current style after World War II.

The purpose of these events is to contribute to the development of professional relations between philosophers of all countries, promote philosophy, and contribute to the impact of philosophical knowledge on global problems.

The World Congress of Philosophy brings together philosophers from different parts of the world to discuss a variety of philosophical topics based on their research.

In 2028, Japan will host the World Congress of Philosophy for the first time in its history.

Agenda
Date: 16th to 23nd August 2028 (8 days)

Venue: University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus

Participants: Approximately 4,000 philosophy scholars are expected to participate

(approximately 3,500 participants from overseas)

Organizer: FISP

with the support of JFPS (Japanese Federation of Philosophical Societies)
https://wcptokyo2028.wordpress.com/japanese-federation-of-philosophical-societies-jfps

Links to Websites:
Tokyo Metropolitan Government
https://www.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/information/press/2024/08/2024083010
Japan National Tourism Organization
https://mice.jnto.go.jp/news/success/2441.html

Related Information
This project was awarded the ‘2025 Contribution Award for Attracting and Hosting International Conferences’ by the Japan National Tourism Organisation (JNTO). (14 February 2026)
https://mice.jnto.go.jp/about-jnto/activities/commendation/