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‘Recent Africana Philosophy
in Three Movements’
On Thursday and Friday, April 7 and 8, a two-day conference will feature leading scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, African-American studies, women’s studies, English and political science from across the United States and Canada.
The conference’s three “movements” are panel discussions, each of which explores the work of an important thinker in a distinctive area of Africana philosophy:
• Analytical Africana philosophy with Howard McGary of Rutgers University, who is a visiting distinguished professor at Temple this semester.
• African philosophy and gender with Nkiru Nzegwu of Binghamton University, who is past president of the International Association of African Philosophy.
• Afro-Caribbean philosophy, featuring Paget Henry of Brown University, whose book Caliban’s Reason recently received the Frantz Fanon Prize for outstanding book in Caribbean thought.
Panel discussions will include responses from each thinker’s critics.
The conference also includes:
• The inaugural Alain Locke lecture by Leonard Harris of Purdue University titled “The Aesthetic Combat of Alain Locke, a Philadelphia Negro.”
• An address on Africana Poetics by Rowan Ricardo Phillips of Stony Brook University, who has been named the first poet laureate of Temple’s Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought.
• The first Monroe Beardsley Lecture by Naomi Zack of the University of Oregon, titled “The Girl with a Pearl Earring and Janet Jackson: About Beauty, Obscenity and Power.”
For a full schedule of times and locations for the conference, as well as a complete list of participants, go to www.temple.edu/humanities/Africana%20Conference/index.asp.
Sponsored by:
The Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought
The Society of Fellows in the Humanities
The Office of the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, and
The Office of the University Provost
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