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This conference is being organized by Lea Cantor and Josh Platzky Miller in collaboration with Philiminality Oxford. There's a bit about them below.
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Lea Cantor (Oxford)Lea is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at Worcester College, University of Oxford and a British Society for the History of Philosophy Postgraduate Fellow (2022-23). Lea is also a Research Fellow-Elect at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge (2023-26). Lea's primary research interests are in classical Chinese philosophy (especially the Zhuangzi and other texts in the Daoist tradition), early Greek philosophy (particularly Parmenides), the reception of ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy in European philosophy, comparative methodology, and the global history and historiography of philosophy.
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Josh Platzky Miller (Free State)Josh is a lecturer in sociology at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Josh was formerly a NIHSS postdoctoral fellow at the Humanities Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal, and an affiliated lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. Josh's primary research interests are social movements, African and Latin American politics and political thought, social epistemology and the imagination, and the global history and historiography of philosophy.
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Assistant Organisers
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Dmitri Levitin (Oxford) is an intellectual, cultural and religious historian of early modern Europe, and of its encounter with the 'non-Western' world. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2010. He was then appointed a Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. Since October 2015, He has been a Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Dmitri works especially on English and European intellectual and religious change, c. 1550–1750; The relationship between humanism and science; and the historicisation of ideas about world religion, theology, and philosophy.
alicehank winham (Oxford) studied BA Philosophy and Theology at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, where ze is now pursuing an MPhil Buddhist Studies at Lady Margaret Hall through the Faculty of Oriental Studies soon to be renamed the ‘Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.’ Ze focuses on philosophy of logic and language and social epistemology across traditions, including classical Buddhist philosophy and its modern interpreters, feminist philosophy, and the Black Radical Tradition. alicehank is also dedicated to critical pedagogy, philosophies of transformation and liberation, and social and environmental activism, such as through mentoring programmes, publishing journals, creating educational platforms, and direct action.
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Jonathan Egid (King's College London): Jonathan is a PhD student at KCL, working on the Hatata Zera Yacob, a 17th century philosophical autobiography from Ethiopia. Jonathan explores Ethiopian literature and history writing, oriental scholarship in the shadow of empire, Ge'ez philology and varieties of philosophical rationalism and critique. One major aim of the project, besides bringing these neglected works to a wider audience, is to use the Hatata to think about different ways of writing the history of philosophy, in particular what a truly global history of philosophy would look like.
Sihao Chew (Oxford) is a DPhil student in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. His research focuses on Chinese philosophy, especially the metaphysical issue of one and many in Neo-Confucianism. He draws from tools in logic, philosophy of science, and philosophy of language to form an interpretative framework to understand these issues.
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About Philiminality Oxford
Philiminality Oxford is a student-run platform for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary philosophy. We discuss philosophical ideas, thinkers, and approaches which are frequently marginalized in both Anglo-American and “continental” academic circles. We engage with broader horizons of what it means to do philosophy by discussing intersectional perspectives on brands of thought from across the world. We also recognize the value of exploring how philosophical issues interrelate with other disciplines, such as politics, theology, sociology, classics, history, psychology and natural science. We welcome contributions from graduate students and early career academics on our panels. Our events are all open to everyone, whether you are interested in the basic day-to-day relevance of philosophical questions, through to the conditions for a more global approach to philosophy.
