On October 21-22 2024 the University of Tromsø (the Arctic University of Norway) will organize a «Conference on Non-Western and decolonial philososophy» («Konferanse om ikke-vestlig og dekolonial filosofi«). The global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud delivers the opening Keynote1 (in Norwegian) on Global Philosophy 101: Introduction to Written Philosophy from Africa, Asia, Meso-America, and Europe (Globalfilosofi 101: Introduksjon til skriftlig filosofi fra Afrika, Asia, Meso-Amerika og Europa), on Monday October […]
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New book: On November 20 2023, De Gruyter published the first scholarly translation of the rationality texts by Zara Yaqob (1600-1693) and his student Walda Heywat, The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities (link to De Gruyter). The Open Access Preface is by Dag Herbjørnsrud (SGOKI). 120 years after two inquiries (Hatätas), written in the Classical Ethiopic (Ge’ez), […]
New book: On November 6, 2023 De Gruyter publishes the first critical translation of the Hatätas, written by Zera Yaqob and Walda Heywat, into English. The volume is edited by Ralph Lee, Mehari Worku and Wendy Laura Belcher in collaboration with Jeremy R. Brown. Translated by: Ralph Lee, Mehari Zemelak Worku and Wendy Laura Belcher. Preface by: Dag Herbjørnsrud. UPDATE: All info here: www.sgoki.org/no/2023/11/30/book-launch-the-hatata-inquiries/ Info from the publisher on The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia […]
I første 2022-utgave av det svenske tidsskriftet Historiskan har Dag Herbjørnsrud en gjennomgang av kvinnenes idéhistorie, med vekt på Asia, Afrika og urbefolkningen i Amerika. Historiskan er Sveriges, og Nordens, eneste kvinnehistoriske tidsskrift. Ingress: «I århundranden har kvinnor från den globala södern varit en del av tänkandets historia. Från Enheduanna i Sumer för 4200 år sedan till muslimska Nana Asma’u kring sekelskiftet 1800. Men i slutet av 1700-talet påbörjades ett […]
Essay: I vinterutgaven av avisen Ny Tid har idéhistoriker Dag Herbjørnsrud (SGOKI) et essay om fire nye bøker fra 2020 som utvider vår forståelse av verdens filosofihistorie. I essayet «Mer allmennmenneskelig filosofi» dekkes: en presentasjon av filosofien til kvinner fra det globale sør, debutboken fra Minna Salami, en ny oversettelse av Anton Wilhelm Amo (f. ca. 1703) fra Ghana og en ny introduksjon til maori-filosofien. Lenke (NB! Ny Tid utkommer […]
The article "The Mesoamerican Philosophy Renaissance" is translated into French as " La renaissance de la philosophie mésoaméricaine".
Main photo: A «Carvaka Ashram», founded by Boddu Ramakrishna in 1973, is dedicated to the atheist tradition of India. In Nidamarru, close to Mangalagiri in Andhra Pradesh (south-eastern India), busts are set up, outside the ashram, to commemorate rational thinkers like the 19th c. Dalit couple Jyotirao Phule and Savitribai Phule; in addition to the 15-16th c. Telugu poet Vemana. Photo: TheNewsMinute. India has the world’s oldest recorded continuous atheist and […]
Some weeks before the Corona virus and COVID-19 shut down much of Europe, the US professor Bryan van Norden (the author of Taking Back Philosophy, 2017) held the sellout lecture «Learning from Chinese Philosophy» at the Intercultural Museum of Oslo (Interkulturelt Museum, IKM) on the 25th of February 2020. The event was part of the series «Mat & Viten» – «Food & Knowledge» (all info at this SGOKI page). The […]
As of March 2020, five articles of the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud (founder of SGOKI) have been listed at the website of «Pieces on Non-‘Western’ Philosophy: for a General Audience: A List.» This list of texts on philosophy is made by Abiral Chitrakar Phuyal, New York University/Shanghai. LINK. The 5 texts of Herbjørnsrud: General/comparative: ‘First women of philosophy’, Aeon, 23 November, 2018. Africa: ‘The African Enlightenment’, Aeon, 13 December, 2017 Africa: ‘The […]
On the 25th of February 2020, Yale NUS professor Bryan W Van Norden held the lecture «Learning from Chinese Philosophy» at the Intercultural Museum of Oslo (IKM), Norway. Media coverage of the event: Molo (29.02.20), the student journal of history of ideas at the University of Oslo (UiO): «Er mainstream akademisk filosofi rasistisk?» (Is mainstream academic philosophy racist?) Utrop (27.02.20), the multicultural paper of Norway: «– Norge kan lære av […]
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 […]
In December 2019, the leading French magazine Sciences Humaines (edition Historie) has published the article «L’histoire oubliée des pensées africaines» (The forgotten history of African ideas) by the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud (founder of SGOKI). This text is part of a larger special issue on Africa – see list of content (sommaire). The article covers texts from Egypt (Kemet) – like the 3,700-year-old lamenation by Ankhu (ca 1700 […]
On May 10 2019, the Routledge and Francis & Taylor journal Global Intellectual History published the latest article by the historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud: «Beyond decolonizing: global intellectual history and reconstruction of a comparative method.» In the article, Herbjørnsrud proposes a comparative method to go beyond methodological nationalism and to answer the calls to decolonize the academy. The text covers examples ranging from social anthropology, Mo Zi, and Herodotus […]
The program for MaerzMusik 2019 (March 22-31), Festival for Time issues, as part of the Berliner Festspiele (Berlin Festival), is now official: The author and historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud, founder of SGOKI, will hold one speech (March 23, 2019) and one 4-hour workshop (March 25). Speech: March 23 (Saturday), 15:00-16:00 Title: «Fake history, distorted world-views: How ideology shapes what we (think we) know» Venue: Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Berlin […]
News – spring semester of 2019: I. January 2019: The Aeon essay «Before the canon: The non-European women who founded Philosophy», written by Dag Herbjornsrud, has been put on the reading schedule of «Introduction to Philosophy: Who is a philosopher?» at Georgetown University, Washington DC, spring 2019. The course is held by professor Bryce Huebner. Description of the course «Introduction to Philosophy»: «You probably have some idea of what philosophy is, […]
«New research indicates that Plato and Aristotle were right: Philosophy and the term “love of wisdom” hail from Egypt.» A new text by the historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud at the Blog of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Dec 17th 2018: «The Radical Philosophy of Egypt: Forget God and Family, Write!» Excerpts: «A remarkable example of classical Egyptian philosophy is found in a 3,200-year-old text named “The Immortality of Writers.” […]