The long-time Nobel Prize candidate and Professor at California University (Levine), Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (b. 1938) delivered the inaugural Black History Month lecture for Quantum Biology Lab (QBL), Howard University (Washington, DC.) on February 22, 2022. The title of the Ngugi lecture, the third in the «Decolonizing the History and Future of Knowledge» series, is «Decolonizing the Cognitive Process.» After the lecture, Ngugi joined a discussion, moderated by the physical […]
Decolonizing the Academy
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For the second teaching year in a row, the paper «Beyond decolonizing: global intellectual history and reconstruction of a comparative method» (2021, online from May 2019) by Dag Herbjørnsrud is listed as «required reading» in Professor Lorenzo Kamel’s corso (course) «Colonial Spaces and Post-Colonial Studies: History and Methodologies» at the University of Turin (Torino), Italy. The paper is the only «required reading» text in Lesson 3, which is named «Beyond […]
On December 7, 2021 (1-3 pm EST), the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud held the first lecture in QBL’s “Decolonizing the History and Future of Knowledge” Series at Howard University (Washington DC, US). The title of the talk is «Redefining the Canon: Science from across the Global South and Philosophy from Ethiopia, Egypt, and the First Nations of the Americas.» The next lectures in the series will be held […]
The author, Distinguished Professor (University of California, Irvine), and long-time candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (b. 1938), has contributed a new text to the biannual journal Cosmopolis (Brussels, Belgium) in January 2020. The text is named «Decolonization must be global» (French: «La décolonisation doit être mondiale»), and it is published in a special issue on «Decolonizing the Academy» (link to Content), edited by the global […]
In Mid-January 2021, a special issue (2020-3-4), «Decolonizing the Academy», of the biannual journal Cosmopolis (Brussels) is released. Among the contributors are Ngugi wa Thiong’o (b. 1938): the author of Decolonising the Mind (1986), Distinguished Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of California and a frequent candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ngugi’s text, «Decolonization must be global», is written exclusively for Cosmopolis, and it is published below. […]
The article «Beyond decolonizing: global intellectual history and reconstruction of a comparative method» by Dag Herbjørnsrud, published in the journal Global Intellectual History (May 10 2019) has, in September 2020, an attention score of 96: «Altmetric has tracked 15,773,921 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it’s in the top 5% of all research outputs ever […]
CHRONOS Research Theme Launch Event: On February 10 2020, at 5.30 pm, SGOKi founder Dag Herbjørnsrud held the lecture «Intersectional Academy: Deconstructing the Colonial Narratives« at Royal Holloway, University of London. Location: 11 Bedford Square, Bloomsbury, London, UK. The lecture was «Launching our new research theme, Silent Voices«, The Centre for Critical and Historical Research on Organisation and Society (CHRONOS) stated. CHRONOS launched in 2019 as part of the School […]
On January 9 2020, the Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA) published the text «The Mesoamerican Philosophy Renaissance» by global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud (founder of SGOKI). Intro: «500 years after the conquistadors began burning books written by the original philosophers of Mexico and Guatemala, America’s classical thinking now rise like a phoenix from the ashes. Nahua and Maya philosophy hand us a mirror for our era.» Excerpts […]
The journal Cosmopolis – a journal of cosmopolitics (Brussels, Belgium) – which is published twice a year, is planning a special issue on the topic “Decolonizing the Academy” in late 2020. We are looking for articles, papers, and texts that can illuminate the topic. Please send you proposal (a short sketch is enough) to dag@sgoki.org by February 1st, 2020. Final deadline for finished texts: October 15th, 2020. (PHOTO CAPTION: The […]
«Kvinner skjules i filosofien«, er tittelen på idéhistoriker Dag Herbjørnsruds kronikk hos Kilden 10. oktober 2019. (Kilden kjønnsforskning.no er et nasjonalt kunnskapssenter for kjønnsperspektiver i forskningen, og det ble etablert av Norges forskningsråd i 1998 som Kvinne- og kjønnsforskningens InformasjonsLinje og Dokumentasjonsenhet i Norge (KILDEN). I dag er dette en faglig uavhengig enhet, administrativt underlagt Forskningsrådet.) Ingressen i kronikken: «Kampen for flere kvinner på filosofipensum bør ikke ekskludere fargede kvinner […]