ACEPS Talks, Visits, Fellowships & Publications

Talks, Visits and Fellowships in 2024

• Jan 2024: Tobi, A. (PostDoc Fellowship) ACEPS PhD graduate awarded a 2 year postdoctoral fellowship for his project “Marginal Epistemic Injustice” at Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency (C1RC-IAE) and the Centre for Research in Ethics (CRE) @ Uni Quebec-Montreal.
• Jan 2024: ACEPS Postgrads Term 1 research and reading group schedule @ ACEPS-UJ
• 2 Jan 2024: ACEPS welcomes 4 new Postdoctoral Research Fellows – Drs: Paige Benton, Garikai Madavo, Paul Michael, Uchenna Ogbonnaya
• 17-19 Jan 2024: (Talks) Philosophical Society of Southern Africa Conference (PSSA) by ACEPS members: Paige Benton, Shené de Rijk, Nomaswazi Kubeka, Gontse Lebakeng, Dimpho Moletsane, Dimpho Maponya, Abe Tobi  and Veli Mitova and ACEPS RA visitors: Amandine Catala, Gaile Pohlhaus (keynote) and Sarah Wright @ Uni Stellenbosch.
• 5 Feb 2024: Congrats to Dr Paige Benton, ACEPS PDRF,  recipient of the 2024 GES 4.0 Fellowship!
• 9 Feb 2024: Mitova, V. (Visiting Fellowship) 6 week RSSS Fellowship @ ANU
• 13-14 Feb 2024: Mitova, V. (Invite) “Decolonial Epistemic-Authority Reparations” as part of Thinking from Everywhen: Philosophy, Indigenous Knowledge and Perspectives workshop funded by RSSS Research @ ANU
• 23-25 Feb 2024: Kapatika H. (Visit) NIHSS funded IKS Research trip to Ncwala Ceremony @ Eastern Province of Zambia in Chipata
• 29 Feb 2024: Mitova, V. (Invite)  “Social group moral encroachment” talk as part of ANU Philosophy’s Thursday Seminar Series followed by post-talk Q&A with graduate students @ ANU
• 2 Mar 2024: Ogbonnaya, U. (Invite) “Her-Storicity and Conceptual Mandelisation”: A Roundtable in Honour of Prof. Mesembe I. Edet @ online Uni Calabar.
• 5 Mar 2024: Rybko, C. (Temporary Lecturer) ACEPS currently completing PhD candidate appointed at Philosophy Department @ Uni Witwatersrand.
• 11-18 Mar 2024: Kapatika H. (Visit) NIHSS funded IKS Research Trip to Tanzania, Dar es Salaam @ UDSM
• 14 Mar 2024: Postgraduate seminar on V. Mitova’s forthcoming paper: “Decolonising Experts” as part of Postgraduate Philosophy’s Seminar Series @ Uni Melbourne.
• Apr 2024: ACEPS Postgrads Term 2 research and reading group schedule @ ACEPS-UJ
• 3 Apr 2024: UJ Graduation for ACEPS 3 newest PhDs (l-r): Dr Abraham Tejiri Tobi, their supervisor Prof Veli Mitova, Dr  Dimpho Takane Maponya and Dr Akanimo Andrew Akpan
• 5 Apr 2024: ACEPS PGs and PDRFs WIP Workshop @ ACEPS-UJ
• 15 Apr 2024: Postgraduate seminar on V. Mitova’s: “Decolonial Epistemic Authority Reparations” with the African Philosophy Reading Group @ online ACEPS-Zurich Uni.
• 05 May 2024: Congrats to ACEPS postdoc Dr Paige Benton, awarded R150,000 as part of  GES Workshop Series Seminars: “The Political Epistemology of 4IR Data, Democracy and Discourse: Unpacking 4IR’s Political and Epistemic Impact”
• 15 May 2024: Seminar on V. Mitova’s: “Social Group Moral Encroachment” with the Social Epistemology Group in Seville (GRESS) @ online Seville Uni.
• 14 Jun 2024: ACEPS PGs and PDRFs WIP Workshop @ ACEPS-UJ
• 26-27 Jun 2024: Benton, P. (Talk) “AI and Democracy: Justification of a Broad View of Public Reason” , 2024 Africa Just AI Conference themed “Building a Just AI Ecosystem in Africa” @ Research ICT Africa, Cape Town
• 5 July 2024: Mitova, V. (Talk) “Why epistemic decolonisation in Africa?” as part of Philosophy Lecture Series National Open University of Nigeria hybrid @ NOUN
• 8-10 July 2024: Benton, P. (Talk) “AI Knowledge-making Powers: A Threat to Rawlsian Justice” at TILTing Perspectives Conference 2024 “Looking back, moving forward: Re-assessing technology regulation in digitalized worlds” @ Tilburg Uni.

Publications in 2024

• De Rijk, S. (2024) Euthanasia in Human Beings vs. Companion Animals. South African Journal of Philosophy, 43:1, 57-69.
• Mitova, V. (2024) Social Group Moral Encroachment. Episteme, 20(4): 894-911.
• Mitova, V. (2024) Decolonising Experts. In Farina, M., Lavazza, A. and Pritchard, D. (Eds.) Expertise: Philosophical Perspectives (pp. 253–273). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) Can theorising epistemic injustice help us decolonise? Inquiry.
• Machery, E. et al., Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) A Puzzle About Knowledge Ascriptions. Noûs.
• Grossman, I. et al., Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) Dimensions of Wisdom Perception Across Five Continents. Nature Communications.
• Schneider et al., Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) Science-Policy Research Collaborations Need Philosophers. Nature Human Behaviour. DOI: 10.1038/s41562-024-01892-x.

Talks, Visits and Fellowships in 2023

• 16-18 Jan 2023: (Talks) Philosophical Society of Southern Africa Conference (PSSA) by ACEPS members: Andrew Akpan, Shené de Rijk, Chad Harris, Gontse Lebakeng, Dimpho Maponya, Veli Mitova, Ben Smart and Abe Tobi @ Uni Johannesburg.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 25 Jan 2023: Decolonizing Epistemic Injustice and Implicit Bias Conference “Can Theorising Epistemic Injustice Help Us Decolonise” @ Arctic Uni, Norway.
• Mitova, V. (Visit) 20-24 Feb 2023: Collaboration with Constructing Social Hierarchy project @ Melbourne Uni.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 20 Feb 2023: “Decolonising Experts” for Constructing Social Hiearchy  Workshop @ Melbourne Uni.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 21 Feb 2023: Forum on “Decolonizing the philosophy curriculum — experiences from South Africa” @ Melbourne Uni.
• Mitova, V. (Written response) 23 Feb 2023: Cluster-Initiative “Ethics for Sciences”: Advisory Board Workshop @ Uni Göttingen.
• Maponya, D. (Interview) 26 Feb 2023: On PowerFM Interest: Analysis on Prof Phakeng’s sudden early retirement.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 3 Mar 2023: “Decolonising Experts” for online talk series on underrepresented groups in philosophy and academia run by Canada Research Chair on Epistemic Injustice and Agency @ Uni of Quebec at Montreal.
• 9 Mar 2023: (Talks) Epistemic Injustice and Epistemic Decolonisation Workshop co-organised with “Reversing the Gaze” project PIs from Uni Basel by ACEPS members: Andrew Akpan, Dimpho Maponya, Veli Mitova, and Abe Tobi @ Uni Johannesburg.
• Tobi, A. (Invite) 15 Mar 2023: “Epistemic Responsibility in Epistemically Toxic Environments” @ Uni Cape Town.
• 26-30 Mar 2023: Notions of Epistemic Justice and Injustice: exploration and application in AI & Data Justice governance – collaboration visit by Epistemology of the 4th Industrial Revolution ACEPS Project to The Global Data Justice TILT Project  (live Uni Tilburg)
• 30 Mar 2023: (Talks) TILT Seminar Epistemic Injustice and Datatech: insights from the Epistemology of the 4th Industrial Revolution Project — ACEPS 4IR team of Veli Mitova, Akanimo Akpan, Caitlin Rybko and Abraham Tobi @ Uni Tilburg.
• Mitova, V. (Master Class) 30 Mar 2023: Decolonising Experts @ Uni Tilburg.
• Rybko, C. (Invite) 5 Apr 2023: Respondent to “A Frame for Structural Epistemology” by Ezgi Sertler at the Pacific APA  in San Francisco.
• Mitova, V. (Visiting Fellowship) 1 May 2023: A 2 month Fellowship with the 2023 ZiF Project “The epistemology of evidence-based policy: How philosophy can facilitate the science-policy interface” @ Uni Bielefeld.
• Maponya, D. (Invite) 5 May 2023: “African Feminism” UJ-Redlands Symposium @ UJ.
• Mitova, V. (Participant) 11-12 May 2023: “ZiF Research Group Workshop II Biases in acquisition and consideration of evidence, including questions of the incentives for and rationality of biases“ @ Uni Bielefeld.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 23 May 2023: “ZiF Research Group All Fellows Meeting: Epistemic Injustice and Evidence Based Policy” @ Uni Bielefeld.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 31 May 2023: “Group Moral Encroachment” Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition @ Uni Cologne.
• Tobi, A. (Invite) 1-2 Jun 2023: “The Social Epistemology of Social Media” workshop @ TU Berlin.
• Meylan, A., Mitova, V., Schmidt, S. (Talk) 3 Jun 2023: “Conspiracy Theories and Marginalization_ A New Argument for Particularism”  2nd International Conference on the Philosophy of Conspiracy Theory @ VU Amsterdam.
• Mitova, V., Schwenkenbecher, A. (Invite) 15 Jun 2023 “Ethics in Evidence Based Policy” Practical Philosophy Seminar @ Uni Bielefeld
• Mitova, V., Schwenkenbecher, A. (Invite) 29 Jun 2023 “How Evidence-Based Policy has to mean Ethics-Based Policy” ZIF Workshop III @ Uni Bielefeld
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 11-12 Jul 2023: “Social Group Moral Encroachment” Episteme Annual Conference Zanzibar.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 14-15 Jul 2023: “Epistemic Authority Reparations” Episteme Writing Workshop Zanzibar.
• Maponya, D. (Doctorate & Tenure) 14 Sep 2023: Congrats to ACEPS doctoral candidate, Dimpho Takane Maponya.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 15-16 Sep 2023: Epistemic Blame and Epistemic Reparations Workshop  part of Epistemic Reparations Project funded by Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs @ Quamajuc Museum, Winnipeg @ Uni Brandon
• Kapatika, H. (Talk) 27 Oct 2023: “Epistemicide and the Paradox of Restituting African Tangible and Intangible Heritages” at the 5th Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA), Lubumbashi.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 6 Nov 2023: “Social Group Moral Encroachment“ at Collective Ethics seminar @ Vienna Uni.
• Mitova, V. (Visit) Nov 2023: 2 week visit as part of Philosophy through Indigenous Knowledge in the Global South project funded by National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS) TBA @ Goa Uni & Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 21 Nov 2023: Reparations-Decolonisations-Just Transitions @ IIT Delhi.
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 23 Nov 2023: Decolonial Epistemic Authority – Reparations @ Goa Uni.
• Mitova, V. (Award) 30 Nov 2023: Dean’s Award for Outstanding Academic Citizenship
• Mitova, V. (Invite) 14-16 Dec 2023: Forum on outcome of the 2023 ZiF Project “The epistemology of evidence-based policy: How philosophy can facilitate the science-policy interface” @ Uni Bielefeld.

Publications in 2023

• Mitova, V. (2023) A New Argument for the Non-Instrumental Value of Truth. Erkenntnis, 88(5): 1911-1933.
• Mitova, V. (2023) Why Epistemic Decolonisation in Africa? Social Epistemology, 37(6): 739-752.
• Mitova, V. (2023) Socialising epistemic risk: on the risks of epistemic injustice. Metaphilosophy, 54(4): 539–552.
• Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) Motivated Irrationality, Epistemic Innocence, White Ignorance. Philosophical Topics.
• Mitova, V. (Forthcoming) Wilful Hermeneutical Injustice to the (Qualified) Rescue of Knowledge-first. In Logins, A. and Vollet, J. (Eds.) Putting Knowledge to Work. New York: Oxford University Press.
• Serote, M. (2023) Mme Ruth Mompati: A Life of Courage and Service. Johannesburg: Seriti sa Sechaba Publishers.
• Tobi, A. (2023) Intra-Group Epistemic Injustice. Social Epistemology, 37(6): 798-809.
• Tobi, A. (2023) Epistemic injustice and colonisation. South African Journal of Philosophy, 41(4): 337-346.