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 […]
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The Aeon essay «The African Enlightenment« (Dec 2017) by SGOKI founder Dag Herbjørnsrud, is now translated into French and published in the 100th issue (September 2019) of the renowned magazine Books. The article, which covers the African philosophers Zera Yacob (1599-1672) of Ethiopia and Anton Wilhelm Amo (b. ca. 1703-d. […]
This summer, Peter Adamson (Univ of Munich, Germany) and Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie Univ, Canada) have made an episode on the Ethiopian philosopher Zera Yacob (1599-1693) and his treatise Inquiry (Hatäta, 1667). This episode on Zera Yacob is part of the Africana philosophy series, which is included in the podcast History of […]