2008 Colloquia

Status

DATE PLACE DAY TIME PRESENTER TOPIC
done 22 October 2008 Alice: Senate Hall Tuesday 12:45-13:30 Profs John Hendricks, Herman van Erp (Netherlands), Wilson Akpan, Mr Vusi Duma, Ms Eliza Schade (Netherlands) Philosophy and SSH Faculty Dialogue: Panel discussion on "Xenophobia"
done 17 October 2008 East London
staff lounge
Friday 12:45-13:30 Prof Herman van Erp (Tilburg, Holland) "Moral and personal identity"
done 15 Sept 2008 Alice: Arts Faculty Board Room Monday 12:45-13:30 Prof Kofi Etsiah The flight of charms at the touch of cold philosophy. On the collapse of values in contemporary society.
done 1 Sept 2008 Alice: Arts Faculty Board Room Monday 12:45-13:30 Prof Bruce Janz (Florida, USA) Practicality and creativity in African philosophy.
done 22 August 2008 East London
staff lounge
Friday 12:45-13:30 Mr Jacques Pienaar Does God make a difference to being human?
done 11 Aug 2008 Alice staff lounge Monday 12:45-13:30 Dr Samantha Vice (Rhodes Univ) What's wrong with cynicism?

Status

DATE PLACE DAY TIME PRESENTER TOPIC
done 20 May 2008 Alice staff lounge Tuesday 12:45-13:30 Prof Hugh McMillan (Oxford, England Identity, Ethnicity and Nationalism
done 12 May 2008 Alice staff lounge Monday 12:45-13:30 Prof Harry Sewlall Crossing boundaries between the human and the non-human
done 9 May 2008 East London
Boardroom
Friday 12:45-13:30 Prof Tobias Louw Race and racism: philosophical explorations of contentious questions of concept
done 22 April 2008 Alice staff lounge Monday 12:45-13:30 Dr Mathew Blatchford White skins, black masks
done 15 March 2008 East London
Thutuka 2
Friday 12:45-13:30 Dr Abraham Olivier Why back to the mother tongue?
done 3 March 2008 Alice staff lounge Monday 12:45-13:30 Dr Abraham Olivier Mother tongue and academic discourse

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