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Conference by Lewis Gordon at Corpus africana 2018
Philosophy and Decolonization in Africana Philosophy
From October 27 to November 9, 2018, as part of the research seminar “Thinking Decolonization” at the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès in collaboration with the Festival Danses et Continents Noirs of the James Carlès Choreographic Center, the Erasmus Mundus EuroPhilosophie University Consortium and the Center for Philosophy of Law at the Catholic University of Louvain organized a major international meeting entitled “Corpus Africana: Contemporary Philosophies and Dances of Africa and its Diasporas.” This event aimed to bring the knowledge and study of “Africana philosophy” and contemporary African and Afro-descendant choreographic knowledge to the forefront of European university research in the field of arts and humanities.
Lewis Ricardo Gordon (born May 12, 1962) is an American philosopher at the University of Connecticut who works in the areas of Africana philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, social and political theory, postcolonial thought, theories of race and racism, philosophies of liberation, aesthetics, philosophy of education, and philosophy of religion. He has written particularly extensively on Africana and black existentialism, postcolonial phenomenology, race and racism, and on the works and thought of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon. His most recent book is titled: Fear of Black Consciousness.
