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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In March 2024, De Gruyter announced that The Hatata Inquries (a translation of two philosophical texts by the Ethiopian Zara Yaqob (1600-1693) and his student Walda Heywat) were among the publisher’s Top 6 Recent Bestsellers. The Hatata Inquries were translated from Ge’ez by Wendy L. Belcher, Ralph Lee, Mehari Worku and Jeremy R. Brown. Preface by Dag Herbjørnsrud. Published in late November 2023. De Guyter page: www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110781922/html?lang=en A Global Book […]
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 […]
On May 24 2023, the global historian of ideas Dag Herbjørnsrud delivered a video lecture on the history of African thinking (from ca. 2000 BCE to 1800 CE) for the Latin American Institute for Advanced Studies (Instituto Latino-Americano de Estudos Avançados, ILEA) at the UFRGS University in Brazil (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul). The Herbjørnsrud lecture – African Libertarian Thinking: Revolutionary and Heterodoxal – introduced a series of […]