Traditionally, scholarship on world philosophies has been predominantly tacked onto the nation-states that populate the world discourse today. Although such a framing might suit the needs of the current academic setup in philosophy in North America and Europe, it is in need of an urgent overhaul. For one, the migration of ideas that have impacted world-philosophical traditions cannot be studied adequately when they are read as if they were derivative of the national context in which they are located today. For another, positions associated with these traditions are not mere historical relics. Critical interventions that took place within them continue to inform the present in many ways.

World Philosophies and Traditions of Knowledge-Making will bring together scholars who challenge contemporary ways of studying world-philosophical traditions that juxtapose them against each other and/or depict them as bygone relics of a hoary past. It endeavors to foreground deviant ways of doing this work, both in research and teaching and provide a forum to exchange thoughts about how to carry forward this work into the future.

The workshop will take place hybrid

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Programme (in CET)

19^th September, 2022

(Room: Forum 2)

• 10:00-11:00 Helen Verran, Charles Darwin University (zoom)
  Conceptualizing Concepts as Praxial in Institutionally Working Disparate Epistemic Traditions
• 11:00-12:00 Lilith W. Lee, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Merdeka in Ideas: (Re)constructing a Straits Chinese Philosophy
• 12:00-13:00 Mariëtte Willemsen, Amsterdam University College
  Teaching ‘Comparative Philosophy’: Pitfalls and Antidotes
• 13:00-14:30 Lunch break
• 14:30-16:30 Carlo Ierna, Guno Jones, Norah Karrouche, Marije Martijn (all Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  Panel: Teaching the Canon
• 16:30: 17:00 Coffee Break
• 17:00-19:00 Amy Donahue, Kennesaw State University
  Workshop: Using Sanskrit Logic to Invigorate Democracy and Resist Epistemic Chaos  

20^th September, 2022

(Room: Agora 4)

• 9:00-10:00 Emma Irwin, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
  Tba
• 10:00-11:00 Jayan Nayar, University of Warwick (zoom)
  On ‘Europe’ and the ‘Postcolony’: An Anti-Colonial Repudiation
• 11:00-12:00 Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Knowledge Making Through Art under Conditions of Coloniality: The Tagorean Vision
• 12:00-13:00 Richard King, SOAS, University of London
  “Religion” and Cognitive Imperialism: India and the Parochialization of “Non-Western Philosophy” 
• 13:00-14:30 Lunch break
• 14:30-15:30 Stephen Harris, University Leiden
  Can We Understand Bodhisattva Ethics as Eudaimonistic?
• 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
• 16:00-17:30 Mickaella Perina, University of Massachusetts
  Keynote: Authority, Expertise and Coloniality: Reflections on World Philosophy

21^th September, 2022

(Room: Agora 4)

• 10:00-12:30 Panel: Working with World Philosophies for Doctoral Dissertations
  Martine Berenpas, Leiden University
  Finding The Pivot of Dào as a Method for Global Philosophy
  Saheed Bello, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/SOAS, University of London
  Òrúnmìlà, Orality and Philosophy
  Staci-Marie Dehaney, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Military Objects and Colonial Thinking
  Li-Fan Lee, Leiden University
  What Are We Doing Exactly? Self-Conceptions of Intercultural Philosophy and a “Hermeneutic” Model
  Arnold Yasin Mol, University Leiden
  The Kalāmic Anthropology of Al-Māturīdī (d. 944 CE)
• 12:30-12:45 Coffee break
• 12:45-13:30 Chiara Robbiano, University College Utrecht
  World Philosophies from Concepts to Practice—the Researcher as Educator and Citizen (includes concluding discussion)