Discourses on Colonialism Revisited: The Philosophy and Religion in Africana Traditions 2025 Conference
Sat, Oct 18, 2025
11:00 AM–6:00 PM (EST)
This is an online conference held virtually via Zoom. Please register below for the Zoom link to join.
Join us for The Philosophy and Religion in Africana Traditions 12th annual Conference which will revisit thinking on colonialism. We hope to explore how thinkers such as Amilcar Cabral, Aimee Cesaire, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Vine Deloria, Frantz Fanon, Walter Rodney and Malcolm X approach the colonial with special attention to the questions settler colonialism and the logic of elimination, and their links to white supremacy, imperialism and capitalism on the domestic and international levels. This is an online conference held virtually via Zoom. Register here for the Zoom link to join.
Program:
11:00: Opening greetings
11:10-11:50: (EST): Africa Unbound: Revolt, Reclaim, Reimagine — Rodney and Fanon on Africa’s Liberation and Future
Stephen Onyango Ouma, Consolata Institute of Philosophy (CIP), Tangaza University, Maasai Mara University, and Marist International University College
11:50-12:40: Revolution in These Times: Antifascism, Black Liberation, and a Culture of Resistance
Dhoruba bin Wahad and
The Socialist Movement of Ghana
Kwesi Pratt, Secretary General of the Socialist Movement of Ghana
12:40-1:25: Solidarity session
Maurice Carney, Executive Director, Friends of the Congo
1:30-2:20: Processes of Recolonization: Debt, Witchhunting, and the Politics of Permanent Warfare
Silvia Federici, Professor Emeritus, Hofstra University
2:30-4:00: KEYNOTE: The Class of Nineteen Twenty-Five Speaks to the Crisis of the Twenty-First Century
William Sales, Professor Emeritus, Seton Hall University
4:00-4:50: A Survey of Native American Perspectives on Decolonization
Gail Presbey, Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive, Department Chair of Philosophy, University of Detroit, Mercy
4:50-5:40: Dialogue: Learning from Walter Rodney
Rakhee Kewada, Graduate Center, CUNY and Agrarian South Network
Nara Roberta Silva, Core Faculty & Praxis Program Head, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
5:40-6:00: Closing remarks and greetings
The 12th annual PRAT conference is co-sponsored by Humanitas, the African Ethical Society and the Center for the Humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Please direct questions or propose a presentation to Dr. J Everet Green: [email protected]
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