Symposium in Africana Cultural Philosophy

Recent Work of Africana Scholars in Florida and Beyond

University of Central Florida, Orlando Florida
Saturday February 26, 9-5:30, Visual Arts Building Gallery

This symposium will convene scholars in Central Florida who work on Africana philosophical and cultural themes. It will be a chance for people to discuss their recent work. There is no specific theme for the meeting.

Featured Speakers

Emmanuel Eze	Department of Philosophy, DePaul University. Author and editor of Race and the Enlightenment, Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Reader, African Philosophy: An Anthology and Achieving Our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future. Founding editor of the journal Philosophia Africana. more information		Symposium Paper: Culture, History and Ethics of the Negative.
Nkiru Nzegwu	Chair of the Africana Studies Department at SUNY Binghamton. Founding chair of the International Society for African Philosophy and Studies (ISAPS) Founder and managing editor of the journals African Philosophy, Ijele: Art Journal, and Jenda: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies. Active curator and scholar of Africana feminism and aesthetics. Editor of Issues in Contemporary African Art and Contemporary Textures: Multidimensionality in Nigerian Art. more information		Symposium Paper: Defying the Odds: Nollywood Videos and Cultural Globalization.
Robin Poynor	School of Art and Art History, University of Florida, Gainesville. Co-author of A History of Art in Africa, author of African Art at the Harn Museum: Spirit Eyes Human Hands. Curated exhibitions of African art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian, the Birmingham Museum of Art, and the Harn Museum at the University of Florida. Writes for African Arts more information		Symposium Paper: The Many Faces of Ogun: Ogun shrines in the Oyotunji tradition in Florida.
Kwasi Wiredu	Dept. of Philosophy and Distinguished University Professor, University of South Florida, Tampa. Author of Philosophy and an African Culture, Cultural Universals and Particulars: An African Perspective, and the Blackwell Companion to African Philosophy. more information		Symposium Paper: Empiricalism: The Empirical Character of an African Philosophy

UCF Participants

• Jody Cutler (Art History): "Photographic Works by Pat Ward Williams at UCF Gallery"
• Fon Gordon (History): "Reading Representations: The Book in American Art."
• Bruce Janz (Philosophy): "Hermeneutics in Africana Philosophy: Is it Worth the Trouble?"
• Jay van Hook (Philosophy): "A Quest Undaunted: Excursion Into African Philosophy"
• Jennifer Lisa Vest (Philosophy): "Learning from Big Sister: What Native American Philosophy Can and Cannot Learn from African Philosophy."
• Kurt Young (African American Studies): "The Epistemic Vocation of the Africana Scholar."

Sponsored by:

• UCF Department of Philosophy
• UCF African-American Studies Program
• UCF Office of Diversity Initiatives
• UCF Department of Art
• UCF Provost's Office

Costs:

There is no fee for the symposium itself. There will be a dinner on Saturday evening, and there will be a fee for that.

For more information, contact:

Bruce B. Janz
Department of Philosophy
University of Central Florida
4000 Central Florida Blvd.
Orlando, FL 32816-1352
TEL: 407-823-5408
DEPT: 407-823-2273
FAX: 407-823-6658
email: janzb@mail.ucf.edu
WWW: http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb