📢 Job opportunity: Philosophy at Georgetown University in Qatar 📅 Apply by October 15, 2026, for full consideration. 🔗 Full announcement and application details: philjobs.org/job/show/31969

A Brief History of Chinese Philosophy traces Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist traditions, Mozi’s ethics, Gongsun Long’s logic and philosophy of language, Legalist thought, and the metaphysical inquiries of the Wei–Jin period, among others. Publication details: doi.org/10.4324/9781042011049

On September 4, the UN General Assembly adopted “Correct the Map,” a resolution introduced by Togo on behalf of the African Union. Supported by 164 countries, it encourages wider use of equal-area projections, particularly Equal Earth. UN Article: press.un.org/en/2026/ga12...

African Philosophies are often approached from relational perspectives on the human and personhood. But what about the non-human in African thought? In "The Nonhuman in African Philosophy," Alena Rettová presents her research into exactly this question. Open Access: doi.org/10.4324/9781...

Last week, GloPhi welcomed scholars, practitioners and participants to Hildesheim for five intensive days devoted to “Healing as a Philosophical Practice.” Find out more: glophi.com/2026/02/23/h...

How China Shaped the Enlightenment: A Transcultural History of Modern Thought, edited by Shuchen Xiang and Martin Powers, explores how ideas from China, and European ideas about China, shaped the development of modern thought. 🔗 Learn more: www.routledge.com/How-China-Sh...

Ratnakīrti was an eleventh-century Buddhist scholar at Vikramaśīla monastery and one of the final major figures in India’s Buddhist epistemological tradition. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy published its first entry devoted to this thinker: plato.stanford.edu/entries/ratn...

LIVE TODAY | MOGOBE BERNARD RAMOSE AT UCT Taking up the changing names and meanings attached to the Cape, together with UCT’s motto Spes Bona, Ramose asks what responsibilities universities bear in sustaining dialogue, critical thought and academic freedom. uct.ac.za/rsvp-60th-tb...

“No one colonizes innocently.” Decadent, Stricken, Dying returns to one of Césaire’s central claims: that fascism was not an inexplicable rupture within European civilization, but violence returning to Europe after having been normalized through colonialism. cup.columbia.edu/book/decaden...

Now online: Prof. Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob asks why reparations must address colonial damage to knowledge, language, and intellectual self-determination—not material loss alone. Watch the lecture: glophi.com/2026/08/24/r...

New Publication: “A Relational Theory of Justice: African Economic, Political, and Legal Philosophy in and Beyond the Continent,”by Thaddeus Metz, Research Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pretoria, published by Oxford University Press. Learn more: academic.oup.com/book/63132

What role can Indigenous values play in shaping more just and sustainable futures? From 7–9 September 2026, GloPhi Director Prof. Dr. Anke Graneß will participate in the Institute of Global Value Inquiry’s second annual conference, "Indigenous Values and Social Change," in Wa, Ghana.

Indigenous Values and Social Change: Conference of the Institute of Global Value Inquiry (IGVI) – GloPhi – Philosophizing in a Globalized World

The Institute of Global Value Inquiry (IGVI), in collaboration with the Centre for Gender, Diversity and Social Inclusion at the University of Business and Integrated Development Studies (UBIDS), will...

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How can philosophy help replace violence with dialogue and open paths toward a shared future? In our newly published interview, José P. Castiano speaks with Anke Graness about philosophizing in Mozambique—from sage philosophy and African languages to democracy, reconciliation, and realizable utopias

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In this interview with Professor Anke Graness, GloPhi fellow Prof. José P. Castiano discusses the institutional presence, social function, and future of philosophy in Mozambique.He identifies three pr...

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Can an island be the addressee of a letter? Do “walls, rocks, and plants” — perhaps even robots — take part in a practice of awakening? What may sound paradoxical has long been a matter of serious reflection in the Buddhist traditions, and it might help us find new answers to the current polycrisis:

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We are delighted to announce the publication of a new reference work entry by our colleague Leon Krings, “Buddhist Images of the Human and the Anthropocene,” which has appeared in the living edition o...

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How AfroLatinx artists transform the body into an archive of resistance through a decolonial ciguapa aesthetic In Ciguapa Unbound, Omaris Z. Zamora reimagines the Dominican myth of La Cigüapa to explore the untold stories of Black Dominican women. nyupress.org/978147984539...

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How AfroLatinx artists transform the body into an archive of resistance through a decolonial ciguapa aestheticIn Ciguapa Unbound, Omaris Z. Zamora reimagines...

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That's a wrap on "Practices of Epoché", our phenomenological retreat in Hildesheim. Five days of practicing the epoché with the whole body: meditation, yoga, defocused gazes, East Asian art, landscape walks. Thank you all for a week of phenomenology as living, shared practice!

Land and Self-Determination: Philosophical Perspectives from the Cucapáh and Rabelados. Online Presentation by Fernando Márquez Duarte & Rutte Andrade. More information: glophi.com/2026/08/13/l...

In our new interview on “Curriculum Transformation, Post-Comparative Philosophy, and Philosophizing in Sesotho,” GloPhi Fellow Lerato Posholi speaks with Monika Rohmer about the interconnected strands of her current research. Watch the full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d08G...

Haunted by Language — International Workshop How does language shape philosophy — and what happens when philosophical thought moves between languages, grammars and traditions? A workshop on multilinguality, translation, and philosophizing across linguistic boundaries. glophi.com/2026/08/07/h...

New on Polyglot: Article #5 In “Abya Yala and Latin America: Naming to Philosophise from the Territory,” Fernando David Márquez Duarte, Lorena Grigoletto, and Falk Parra-Witte explore the philosophical, political, and ontological dimensions of naming in Latin America. glophi.com/2026/08/04/p...

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Falk Parra-Witte as a Long-Term Fellow. His project includes exchanges with Pajé Tchydjo, a Kariri Xoco Shaman from Brazil, and representatives of the Kogi people: glophi.com/2026/08/03/f...

New on Aeon: “The Taming of Black Thought”, by Takeshi Morisato Drawing on Tommy Curry’s concept of “epistemic convergence,” Morisato examines how non-Western thinkers are often interpreted through the assumptions of Western philosophy. Read the article: aeon.co/essays/epist...

We are delighted to announce that GloPhi Fellows Namita Herzl, Abosede Ipadeola, and Rutte Andrade will contribute to the session “Women Philosophers and Global Culture” at the Libori Summer School 2026. glophi.com/2026/07/27/f...

Discover our Igbo Language Focus, bringing together research, interviews, and the Igbo Philosophy Colloquium to explore how philosophical thought takes shape through Igbo language. The new focus page now offers an overview of the project and its activities: www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2026/...

Domingos da Cruz Joins GloPhi to Explore Liberation Philosophy and Human Rights in Africa: www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2026/...

The recording of our colloquium "Reclaiming Indigenous Wisdom: Sources, Expressions and Problematics of Philosophizing in the Igbo Language" is now available online: www.youtube.com/watch?v=thRS...

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New lecture recording: Adilbênia Machado on Afro-Brazilian philosophies as movements of resistance, re-existence & enchantment – ancestry, the crossroads, the body as territory. From our workshop “African Philosophy, Reparations & Epistemic Justice”. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Fc6...

📗 Out now: polylog 55 – Philosophizing in African Languages, ed. Anke Graneß & Monika Christine Rohmer. On Geʿez, Amharic, Wolof, Kinyarwanda, Swahili & Digo: language politics, translation, poetry & epistemic sovereignty. polylog.net

Elmar Holenstein‘s Philosophy Atlas: Translating and Expanding a Global Cartography of Philosophy @glophi.bsky.social Philosophizing in a Globalized World www.uni-hildesheim.de/glophi/2026/...

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This Research Focus is dedicated to the translation, revision, and expansion of Elmar Holenstein’s Philosophie-Atlas: Orte und Wege des Denkens. Holenstein’s Philosophy Atlasremains one of the most am...

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Reminder: Registration closes today for Zoom participation in the Igbo Philosophy Colloquium! Register today to receive the Zoom access details: glophi.com/2026/07/06/i...