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Day 1 (Fri 28 April)

*NOTE: all times are UK/BST*

14h00: Registration
14h30: Welcome

Panel 1: Contexts and Critiques
15h00: Lucy Allais (Revisiting problematising western philosophy)
16h00: Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach​ (Appropriating, Borrowing and Retelling the Philosophical Story: Countering Conceptual Hegemony)
17h00: Christoph Schuringa (Canonization and Its Discontents)

​18h00-19h00: Reception
19h00: Day End

Day 2 (Sat 29 April)

08h30: [Tea/Coffee available]

Panel 2: Historiography A
09h00: ​​Robert Bernasconi (The Role of Races and Religions in the Rewriting of the History of Philosophy​)
10h00: Lea Cantor​ (The Origin Story of ‘Western Philosophy’)
10h30: [Tea Break]

11h00: ​Catherine König-Pralong (Mapping (the History of) the Mind. Europe’s Self-Colonization​)
12h00: Jonathan Egid (The category of 'Western Philosophy': reflections from connected history)

12h30: [Lunch Break]

Panel 3: Individual Figures
13h30: Lin Ma (Heidegger on the Abendland and the abendländische Philosophie)
14h30: Saloni de Souza​ (On Top of the World: Garcia de Orta on the Problems With “Western Philosophy”)
15h00: Lilith W. Lee (Philosophising under King and Qing: Two Straits Chinese Critiques of ‘Western’ Philosophy)

15h30: [Tea Break]
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Panel 4: Historiography B (ONLINE)
16h00: Peter Adamson (Is Philosophy in the Islamic World “Western”?)
17h00: Souleymane Bachir Diagne​ (Translation and African philosophy)
18h00: Dmitri Levitin (The Strange Scholarly Origins of ‘Western Philosophy’, and an Uncomfortable Question)

​18h30: Day End

Day 3 (Sun 30 April)

08h30: [Tea/Coffee available]

Panel 5: Inclusions & Exclusions
09h00: Yoko Arisaka (Hermeneutics of Exclusion: Historiographies of the Histories of Philosophies​)
10h00: Daniel J. Smith​ (A Kantian Conspiracy in the Historiography of Philosophy)
10h30: [Tea Break]
11h00:
Sarah Bernard-Granger (Western philosophy, or the national construction of a universal philosophy)
11h30: Lerato Posholi (Demarcating ‘Western philosophy’: beyond origins?)

12h00: [Lunch Break]
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Panel 6: Traditions & Canons
13h00: Lewis Gordon (Before ‘the West’ and Beyond: Ancient African and Contemporary Africana Philosophy)
14h00: Kadir Filiz​ (Must Phenomenology Remain European?)
14h30: Kimberly Ann Harris (The Relationship between African-American Philosophy and 'Western Philosophy')

15h30: [Tea Break]

Panel 7: Epistemology​
16h00: Josh Platzky Miller (Shirking Knowledge: Forms of Ignorance and the idea of ‘Western Philosophy’)
16h30: Allan M. Hillani​ (Savage Hobbes: Anthropological Philosophy Against Philosophical Anthropology)
17h00: Linda Martín Alcoff (What comes after Eurocentrism?)

18h00: Closing
18h30: Conference End

​19h00: Informal Reception
Prior to the conference, we recommend reading:
  • Ben Kies (1953) The Contribution of the Non-European Peoples to World Civilisation (Open Access)
  • Lucy Allais (2016) Problematising Western philosophy as one part of Africanising the curriculum
  • Christoph Schuringa (2020) On the very idea of ‘Western’ philosophy (Open Access)
  • Lea Cantor (2022) Thales – the ‘first philosopher’? A troubled chapter in the historiography of philosophy (Open Access)
  • Josh Platzky Miller (2023) From the ‘History of Western Philosophy’ to Entangled Histories of Philosophy: The Contribution of Ben Kies (Open Access)
  • Josh Platzky Miller and Lea Cantor (2023) The Future of the History of Philosophy (Open Access)
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