11th Annual Wild Coast Philosophy Symposium

Theme: Recognition

Crawfords Beach Lodge, Chintsa

4 November 2023

Organisers: Abraham Olivier and Chris Allsobrook (University of Fort Hare)

PROGRAMME

Session 1

09:00 – 9:40: Colby Dickinson: Seeing beyond being seen: The politics of recognition and Intimacy (Loyola University of Chicago)

Respondent: Justin Sands (St Augustine College)

10:45 – 10:25: Andrea Hurst: The desire for recognition, the power struggle and its deactivation by love (Nelson Mandela University)

Respondent: Bianca Jewel Phillips (Rhodes University)

Session 2 

11:00 – 11:40: Pedro Tabensky: Fanon on Recognition (Rhodes University)

Respondent: Amara Esther Chimakonam (University of Fort Hare)

11:45 – 12:35: Lemogang Modisakeng: The Subject Dualistic Nature of a Bi/Multilingual Self: Is Translation a Sufficient Act of Recognition?  (Nelson Mandela University)

Respondent: Vanessa Freerks (University of Fort Hare)

Session 3 

13:30 – 14:10: Motsamai Molefe: Ubuntu Ethics, Umuntu and Moral Recognition (University of

Fort Hare)

Respondent: Karabo Maiyane (Nelson Mandela University)

14:15 – 14:55: Dimpho Maponya: Advancing the Recognition of Women in African

Philosophy (Rhodes University)

Respondent: Elphus Muade (University of Fort Hare)

Session 4:

15:15–15:55: Lindsay Kelland: I see you, you see me: recognition in the contemporary South

African academy (Rhodes University)

Respondent: Shepherd Mpofu (UNISA)

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