Zeyad El Nabolsy
Assistant Professor
Office: Ross Building, S418
Email: znabolsy@yorku.ca
Media Requests Welcome
I specialize in the history of Africana philosophy with a focus on modern African philosophy. I have previously published on Amílcar Cabral’s philosophy of culture, methodological debates about racism and ideology in the historiography of philosophy, classical German philosophy (especially Kant and Hegel), Paulin Hountondji’s philosophy of science, modern African political and social philosophy (with a focus on African Marxism), and ancient Egyptian philosophy.
I am currently working on a comparative intellectual history of nineteenth African philosophy with a focus on James Africanus Beale Horton (in West Africa) and Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (in Egypt), in addition to a manuscript on Paulin Hountondji.
Degrees
PhD , Cornell UniversityM.A. , Cornell University
M.A. , McMaster University
B.Eng , McMaster University
Research Interests
“Questions from the Dar es Salaam Debates.” In Revolutionary Movements in Africa: An Untold Story, edited by Pascal Bianchini, Leo Zeilig, and Ndongo Sylla, 2023. London: Pluto, 244 - 261.
"Lenin in East Africa: Abdul Rahman Mohammed Babu and Dani Wadada Nabudere." In The Future of Lenin: Power, Politics, and Revolution in the 21st Century, edited by Alla Ivanchikova and Robert Maclean, 2022. Albany, NY: SUNY Press
“Paulin J. Hountondji on Philosophy, Science, and Technology: From Husserl and Althusser to a Synthesis of the Hessen- Grossmann Thesis and Dependency Theory.” In Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures, edited by Grant Farred, 2022. Philadelphia: Temple University Press
“African Socialism in Retrospect: Karim Hirji's The Travails of a Tanzanian Teacher.” In Liberated Texts, Collected Reviews: Volume One, edited by Louis Allday and Mahmoud Najib, 2022. Oxford: Ebb Books
“Al-Tatwarat al-Nazariya lel-Marxiya fe Sharq-Ifriqiya Khelal al-Sab'ainat.” In Al-Pan-Africanism: Bayn al-Sera' al-Tabaqi we al-Indwa' al-'arqi (Nash'at we Tatawour al-afkar al-Ijtima'yia we al-Thaqafiya lada al-Afriquah qabl we 'athna' al-istiqlal) [Pan-Africanism: Between Class Struggle and Racialism (The Origins and Evolution of African Social and Cultural Thought before and during the Struggle for Independence)], edited by Kribso Diallo, 255-281. 2021 Cairo: Mo'asasat 'Arwqa lel-Derasat we al-Targama we al-Neshr. [In Arabic].
(Co-Authored with Afifa Ltifi). “Tarikh Ifriqiya we Ta'weil Amílcar Cabral lel Nazariya al Madiyah al-Tarikhyiah.” In Al-Pan-Africanism: Bayn al-Sera' al-Tabaqi we al-Indwa' al-'arqi (Nash'at we Tatawour al-afkar al-Ijtima'yia we al-Thaqafiya lada al-Afriquah qabl we 'athna' al-istiqlal) [Pan-Africanism: Between Class Struggle and Racialism (The Origins and Evolution of African Social and Cultural Thought before and during the Struggle for Independence)], edited by Kribso Diallo, 283-304. 2021. Cairo: Mo'asasat 'Arwqa lel-Derasat we al-Targama we al-Neshr
“The Life and Thought of H. Odera Oruka: Pursuing Justice in Africa by Gail M. Presby.” Philosophy in Review 44, no.1 (February 2024): 38 – 41.
“Fundamentalism and Secularization by Mourad Wahba. Translated by Robert Beshara.” Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, July 16, 2022
“African Socialism in Retrospect: Karim Hirji's The Travails of a Tanzanian Teacher.” Liberated Texts, March 23 2021.
[Republished in Review of African Political Economy October 19th, 2021]
“‘Expertise’ as Systematized Historical Amnesia: Springborg's Egypt as a Case Study.” Houston Review of Books, August 31, 2021
(Co-authored with Emir Yigit). “Reconciling Hegel with the Dialectic: On Islam and the Fate of Muslims in Hegel’s Philosophy of History.” Hegel Bulletin 45.1 (2024): 93 – 119.
“Standpoint Epistemology, Internal Critique, and the Characterization of Equiano as an Enlightenment Thinker.” Atlantic Studies
“Edward Said and Philosophy.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (2023) (Forum on Timothy Brennan’s Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said) 11(1): 103 – 109.
“No Decolonization without Women's Liberation: Women's Liberation in the PAIGC’s Theoretical Discourse.” Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research 9, no.1(2023): 141 – 155.
“The African Novel and the Question of Communalism in African Philosophy.” Safundi (2023) (Roundtable on Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing)
“On the Differences between the Classical and the ‘Western’ Marxist Conceptions of Science.” Marxism & Sciences 1(1), Winter 2022, 193-217
“Lotus and the Self-Representation of Afro-Asian Writers as the Vanguard of Modernity.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 2021, Vol. 23, No. 4, 596-620
“Nasserism and the Impossibility of Innocence.” International Politics Reviews (Symposium on Sara Salem's Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony), 2021, Vol. 9, 61-69
“Amílcar Cabral’s Modernist Philosophy of Culture and Cultural Liberation.” Journal of African Cultural Studies 2020, Vol. 32, No.2, 231-250
“Freedom Giving Birth to Order: Philosophical Reflections on Peirce's Evolutionary Cosmology and its Contemporary Resurrections.” Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2020, Vol.16, No.1, 1-23
"Using the Concepts of Hermeneutical Injustice and Ideology to Explain the Stability of Ancient Egypt during the Middle Kingdom.” Journal of Historical Sociology 2020, Vol. 33, No. 3, 345-370.
“Hegel's Proto-Modernist Conception of Philosophy as Science.” Problemata: Revista Internacional de Filosofia 2020, Vol.11, No.4: 81-107
“Aristotle on Natural Slavery: An Analysis Using the Marxist Concept of Ideology.” Science & Society April 2019, Vol. 83, No. 2: 244–267
“Baconianism as an Anti-Racist Philosophy of Science in the Mid-Nineteenth Century”. 17th International Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology. (July 24th - 29th, 2023), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“From Historical Materialism to a (New) Clash of Civilizations: A Critique of Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism.” Seminar on “Reading Marx Globally”, organized by Alwin Franke, American Comparative Literature Association (March 16th – 19th, 2023), Chicago.
“Rethinking Modern African Intellectual History in Nasserist Egypt.” Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) (May 29th – June 1st, 2023). York University.
“What is to be Done About the ‘Decline Narrative’ in the Historiography of
Science in the Islamic World?” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) (May 27th – 29th, 2023), York University.
(With Emir Yigit), “Reconciling Hegel with the Dialectic: On Islam and the Fate of Muslims in Hegel’s Philosophy of History.” presentation for Workshop for a Special Issue of the Hegel Bulletin, entitled “Racism and Colonialism in Hegel’s Philosophy”, edited by Daniel James and Franz Knappik (April 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 9th 2022) [held online].
(with Emir Yigit) “Reconciling Hegel with the Dialectic: On Islam and the Fate of Muslims in Hegel’s Philosophy of History.” Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University (February 25th,, 2022).
Roundtable Discussion (with Lisa Tilley, Bikrum Gill, Naeem Inayatullah, and Quỳnh N. Phạm), “Structural Political Economy: The Weight of Structures in the Enduringly Colonial Present” (Part II), International Studies Association, Nashville (March 28th, 2022). [Held Online].
“The Role of History and Philosophy of Science in Anglophone African Philosophy of Culture”. For the ERC funded project “Philosophy and Genre: Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy”, led by Alena Rettová, Universität Bayreuth (February 3rd, 2022) [Held Online due to COVID-19]
“Human Nature and Comparative Anatomy in James Africanus Beale Horton.” Vanderbilt Modern Philosophy Seminar Series (May 4th, 2022), Philosophy Department, Vanderbilt University [held online].
“Modern Science or Colonial Science in 19th Century West Africa? Africanus Horton as a Case Study.” International History Research Seminar (October 12th, 2022), History Department, London School of Economics [held online].
“No Decolonization Without Women’s Liberation: Women’s Liberation in the PAIGC’s Theoretical Discourse.” Kohl Anticolonial Feminisms Virtual Workshop (organized by Alina Sajed and Sara Salem) (February 4th, 2022).
“Rifa'a al-Tahtawi beyond 'Area Studies': Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Africanus Horton, and Conceptions of Science in Contemporary African Philosophy.” Forum Insaniyyat Tunis 2022 (September 20th – 24th, 2022), Manouba University, Tunis.
“Science in African Philosophy of Culture.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) (May 16-19th, 2022), University of Alberta [held online].
“The Role of History and Philosophy of Science in Modern African Philosophy of Culture.” The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Biennial Meeting (June 20th -23rd, 2022), UC Irvine
“Helmi Sharawy's Critique of Racial and Colonial Paradigms in Egyptian African Studies.” Racial Formations in the Middle East and Africa, Workshop Organized by The Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and The Project on African Social Research (PASR), George Washington University, (February 25th -February 26th, 2021) [Held Online due to COVID-19]
“Olaudah Equiano's Narrative and the Power of Internal Critique in the Context of Enlightenment Philosophical Discourse(s).” The Travelling Early Modern Philosophy Organization (TEMPO), (June 18th – June 19th, 2021). [Held Online due to COVID-19]
“Palestine and Modern African Political Philosophy.” Society for Anti-Colonial Middle Eastern and North African Thought, 59th Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (September 23rd – September 26th, 2021). [Held online due to COVID-19]
“Paulin J. Hountondji on Science, Capitalism, and Imperialism: An African Philosopher's Quest for a Sociology of Scientific Knowledge in the Peripheries.” Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) (May 29th –June 2nd, 2021) [Held Online due to COVID-19].
“The Limits of the Concept of 'the Master's Tools': Olaudah Equiano's Narrative as a Case Study.” Beyond Eurocentrism in Intellectual History, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London (September 2nd – September 4th, 2021). [Held online due to COVID-19].
“Paulin J. Hountondji and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge in the Peripheries.” Science Studies Reading Group, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca (December 14th, 2020) [Held Online due to COVID-19].
“An Intellectual History of the Philosophical Foundations of Women’s Liberation in the PAIGC’s Discourse.” 14th Greater New York Area African History Workshop, Cornell University, Ithaca (Oct 23rd, 2020). [Held Online due to COVID-19]
“The Philosopher of Emptiness and the God-Intoxicated Man: Nāgārjuna in Dialogue with Spinoza.” 2020 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Philadelphia (Jan 8th - Jan 11th, 2020).
“Analyzing Participatory Action Research as a Quest for Hermeneutic Justice.” 2019 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), New York (Jan 7th-10th,2019).
“Helmi Sharawy: An Egyptian Perspective on Modern African Intellectual History.” Africa in the Middle East/The Middle East in Africa Workshop, New York (November 18th - November 19th, 2019).
“Lenin and East-African Marxism.” CSAAD-ASWAD Medial Meeting, “Black Internationalism and New York City”, New York (May 2nd – 3rd,2019)
“Theoretical Advances in East-African Marxism in the 1970s.” Revolutionary Lefts in Sub-Saharan Africa (1960s and 1970s): A Political and Social History to be Written, Dakar, Senegal (October 30th - November 1st, 2019).
“Hegel and the Historiographic Consequences of Thinking that Systematicity is a Necessary Condition for a Body of Thought to be Considered Philosophy.” 32nd International Hegel Congress, Tampere, Finland (June 5-8th,2018).
“Amílcar Cabral’s Interpretation of Historical Materialism.” Fifteenth Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, London (November 8-11th,2018)
“Hegel’s Proto-Modernist Conception of Philosophy as a Science: A Critique of Alan Richardson’s Account of the Rise of Scientific Philosophy.” The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science Biennial Meeting (HOPOS), Groningen, the Netherlands (July 9-12th,2018)
Interviewed by Lev Moscow on my work on Paulin Hountondji for his podcast “A Correction”, January 8th 2023
Interviewed alongside Pierre Philippe Fraiture and Grant Farred by John Drabinski on the edited volume Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures for the podcast Conversations in Atlantic Theory (February 6th, 2022)
Interviewed by Mostafa Minawi on my work on African Intellectual History, part of a series of interviews done by The Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies Initiative, Cornell University (February 23rd, 2022):
“Wahba on Secularization and Relativism” Book Panel on Robert Beshara’s translation of Mourad Wahba’s Fundamentalism and Secularization, Santa Fe Public Library, February 11th, 2022 [Online]
Interviewed on the question, "Do Africans need Karl Marx?" by William Shoki and Sean Jacobs on the platform, "Africa is a Country" (May 4th, 2021)
Republished on the Monthly Review’s website: https://mronline.org/2021/06/05/did-marx-ignore-race-in-his-critique-of-political-economy/
“One Africa, Many Pan-Africanisms: An Interview with Doctor Zeyad El Nabolsy.” 1919 Magazine, July 9th 2024
“Paulin J. Hountondji and the Defense of the Universal: An Interview with Carmen De Schryver (Part II).” Borderlines, April 2nd 2024
“Amilcar Cabral: Falastin fe al-falsafa al-siyasiah al-ifriquiah.”, Al-Akhbar, March 11th, 2023 (Translated by Moussa al-Sadah)
“James Africanus Beale Horton: Racism and the Fate of Naturalism in Victorian Philosophical Anthropology.” Black Issues in Philosophy (Blog of the APA), October 10th, 2023
“On Paulin J. Hountondji and The Notion of “Influence” in Modern African Intellectual History: An Interview with Carmen De Schryver (Part I).” Borderlines, January 9th, 2023
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | AP/PHIL4280 3.0 | A | Science, Nature and God | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/MODR1730 6.0 | C | Reasoning About Social Issues | LECT |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2025 | AP/PHIL3180 3.0 | M | Conversations with African Philosophy | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/MODR1730 6.0 | C | Reasoning About Social Issues | LECT |
I specialize in the history of Africana philosophy with a focus on modern African philosophy. I have previously published on Amílcar Cabral’s philosophy of culture, methodological debates about racism and ideology in the historiography of philosophy, classical German philosophy (especially Kant and Hegel), Paulin Hountondji’s philosophy of science, modern African political and social philosophy (with a focus on African Marxism), and ancient Egyptian philosophy.
I am currently working on a comparative intellectual history of nineteenth African philosophy with a focus on James Africanus Beale Horton (in West Africa) and Rifa'a al-Tahtawi (in Egypt), in addition to a manuscript on Paulin Hountondji.
Degrees
PhD , Cornell UniversityM.A. , Cornell University
M.A. , McMaster University
B.Eng , McMaster University
Research Interests
All Publications
“Questions from the Dar es Salaam Debates.” In Revolutionary Movements in Africa: An Untold Story, edited by Pascal Bianchini, Leo Zeilig, and Ndongo Sylla, 2023. London: Pluto, 244 - 261.
"Lenin in East Africa: Abdul Rahman Mohammed Babu and Dani Wadada Nabudere." In The Future of Lenin: Power, Politics, and Revolution in the 21st Century, edited by Alla Ivanchikova and Robert Maclean, 2022. Albany, NY: SUNY Press
“Paulin J. Hountondji on Philosophy, Science, and Technology: From Husserl and Althusser to a Synthesis of the Hessen- Grossmann Thesis and Dependency Theory.” In Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures, edited by Grant Farred, 2022. Philadelphia: Temple University Press
“African Socialism in Retrospect: Karim Hirji's The Travails of a Tanzanian Teacher.” In Liberated Texts, Collected Reviews: Volume One, edited by Louis Allday and Mahmoud Najib, 2022. Oxford: Ebb Books
“Al-Tatwarat al-Nazariya lel-Marxiya fe Sharq-Ifriqiya Khelal al-Sab'ainat.” In Al-Pan-Africanism: Bayn al-Sera' al-Tabaqi we al-Indwa' al-'arqi (Nash'at we Tatawour al-afkar al-Ijtima'yia we al-Thaqafiya lada al-Afriquah qabl we 'athna' al-istiqlal) [Pan-Africanism: Between Class Struggle and Racialism (The Origins and Evolution of African Social and Cultural Thought before and during the Struggle for Independence)], edited by Kribso Diallo, 255-281. 2021 Cairo: Mo'asasat 'Arwqa lel-Derasat we al-Targama we al-Neshr. [In Arabic].
(Co-Authored with Afifa Ltifi). “Tarikh Ifriqiya we Ta'weil Amílcar Cabral lel Nazariya al Madiyah al-Tarikhyiah.” In Al-Pan-Africanism: Bayn al-Sera' al-Tabaqi we al-Indwa' al-'arqi (Nash'at we Tatawour al-afkar al-Ijtima'yia we al-Thaqafiya lada al-Afriquah qabl we 'athna' al-istiqlal) [Pan-Africanism: Between Class Struggle and Racialism (The Origins and Evolution of African Social and Cultural Thought before and during the Struggle for Independence)], edited by Kribso Diallo, 283-304. 2021. Cairo: Mo'asasat 'Arwqa lel-Derasat we al-Targama we al-Neshr
“The Life and Thought of H. Odera Oruka: Pursuing Justice in Africa by Gail M. Presby.” Philosophy in Review 44, no.1 (February 2024): 38 – 41.
“Fundamentalism and Secularization by Mourad Wahba. Translated by Robert Beshara.” Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, July 16, 2022
“African Socialism in Retrospect: Karim Hirji's The Travails of a Tanzanian Teacher.” Liberated Texts, March 23 2021.
[Republished in Review of African Political Economy October 19th, 2021]
“‘Expertise’ as Systematized Historical Amnesia: Springborg's Egypt as a Case Study.” Houston Review of Books, August 31, 2021
(Co-authored with Emir Yigit). “Reconciling Hegel with the Dialectic: On Islam and the Fate of Muslims in Hegel’s Philosophy of History.” Hegel Bulletin 45.1 (2024): 93 – 119.
“Standpoint Epistemology, Internal Critique, and the Characterization of Equiano as an Enlightenment Thinker.” Atlantic Studies
“Edward Said and Philosophy.” Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (2023) (Forum on Timothy Brennan’s Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said) 11(1): 103 – 109.
“No Decolonization without Women's Liberation: Women's Liberation in the PAIGC’s Theoretical Discourse.” Kohl: A Journal for Body and Gender Research 9, no.1(2023): 141 – 155.
“The African Novel and the Question of Communalism in African Philosophy.” Safundi (2023) (Roundtable on Jeanne-Marie Jackson’s The African Novel of Ideas: Philosophy and Individualism in the Age of Global Writing)
“On the Differences between the Classical and the ‘Western’ Marxist Conceptions of Science.” Marxism & Sciences 1(1), Winter 2022, 193-217
“Lotus and the Self-Representation of Afro-Asian Writers as the Vanguard of Modernity.” Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 2021, Vol. 23, No. 4, 596-620
“Nasserism and the Impossibility of Innocence.” International Politics Reviews (Symposium on Sara Salem's Anticolonial Afterlives in Egypt: The Politics of Hegemony), 2021, Vol. 9, 61-69
“Amílcar Cabral’s Modernist Philosophy of Culture and Cultural Liberation.” Journal of African Cultural Studies 2020, Vol. 32, No.2, 231-250
“Freedom Giving Birth to Order: Philosophical Reflections on Peirce's Evolutionary Cosmology and its Contemporary Resurrections.” Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2020, Vol.16, No.1, 1-23
"Using the Concepts of Hermeneutical Injustice and Ideology to Explain the Stability of Ancient Egypt during the Middle Kingdom.” Journal of Historical Sociology 2020, Vol. 33, No. 3, 345-370.
“Hegel's Proto-Modernist Conception of Philosophy as Science.” Problemata: Revista Internacional de Filosofia 2020, Vol.11, No.4: 81-107
“Aristotle on Natural Slavery: An Analysis Using the Marxist Concept of Ideology.” Science & Society April 2019, Vol. 83, No. 2: 244–267
“Baconianism as an Anti-Racist Philosophy of Science in the Mid-Nineteenth Century”. 17th International Congress on Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science and Technology. (July 24th - 29th, 2023), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“From Historical Materialism to a (New) Clash of Civilizations: A Critique of Cedric Robinson’s Black Marxism.” Seminar on “Reading Marx Globally”, organized by Alwin Franke, American Comparative Literature Association (March 16th – 19th, 2023), Chicago.
“Rethinking Modern African Intellectual History in Nasserist Egypt.” Canadian Association of African Studies (CAAS) (May 29th – June 1st, 2023). York University.
“What is to be Done About the ‘Decline Narrative’ in the Historiography of
Science in the Islamic World?” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) (May 27th – 29th, 2023), York University.
(With Emir Yigit), “Reconciling Hegel with the Dialectic: On Islam and the Fate of Muslims in Hegel’s Philosophy of History.” presentation for Workshop for a Special Issue of the Hegel Bulletin, entitled “Racism and Colonialism in Hegel’s Philosophy”, edited by Daniel James and Franz Knappik (April 1st, 2nd, 5th, and 9th 2022) [held online].
(with Emir Yigit) “Reconciling Hegel with the Dialectic: On Islam and the Fate of Muslims in Hegel’s Philosophy of History.” Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University (February 25th,, 2022).
Roundtable Discussion (with Lisa Tilley, Bikrum Gill, Naeem Inayatullah, and Quỳnh N. Phạm), “Structural Political Economy: The Weight of Structures in the Enduringly Colonial Present” (Part II), International Studies Association, Nashville (March 28th, 2022). [Held Online].
“The Role of History and Philosophy of Science in Anglophone African Philosophy of Culture”. For the ERC funded project “Philosophy and Genre: Creating a Textual Basis for African Philosophy”, led by Alena Rettová, Universität Bayreuth (February 3rd, 2022) [Held Online due to COVID-19]
“Human Nature and Comparative Anatomy in James Africanus Beale Horton.” Vanderbilt Modern Philosophy Seminar Series (May 4th, 2022), Philosophy Department, Vanderbilt University [held online].
“Modern Science or Colonial Science in 19th Century West Africa? Africanus Horton as a Case Study.” International History Research Seminar (October 12th, 2022), History Department, London School of Economics [held online].
“No Decolonization Without Women’s Liberation: Women’s Liberation in the PAIGC’s Theoretical Discourse.” Kohl Anticolonial Feminisms Virtual Workshop (organized by Alina Sajed and Sara Salem) (February 4th, 2022).
“Rifa'a al-Tahtawi beyond 'Area Studies': Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, Africanus Horton, and Conceptions of Science in Contemporary African Philosophy.” Forum Insaniyyat Tunis 2022 (September 20th – 24th, 2022), Manouba University, Tunis.
“Science in African Philosophy of Culture.” Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) (May 16-19th, 2022), University of Alberta [held online].
“The Role of History and Philosophy of Science in Modern African Philosophy of Culture.” The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) Biennial Meeting (June 20th -23rd, 2022), UC Irvine
“Helmi Sharawy's Critique of Racial and Colonial Paradigms in Egyptian African Studies.” Racial Formations in the Middle East and Africa, Workshop Organized by The Project on Middle East Political Science (POMEPS) and The Project on African Social Research (PASR), George Washington University, (February 25th -February 26th, 2021) [Held Online due to COVID-19]
“Olaudah Equiano's Narrative and the Power of Internal Critique in the Context of Enlightenment Philosophical Discourse(s).” The Travelling Early Modern Philosophy Organization (TEMPO), (June 18th – June 19th, 2021). [Held Online due to COVID-19]
“Palestine and Modern African Political Philosophy.” Society for Anti-Colonial Middle Eastern and North African Thought, 59th Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (September 23rd – September 26th, 2021). [Held online due to COVID-19]
“Paulin J. Hountondji on Science, Capitalism, and Imperialism: An African Philosopher's Quest for a Sociology of Scientific Knowledge in the Peripheries.” Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) (May 29th –June 2nd, 2021) [Held Online due to COVID-19].
“The Limits of the Concept of 'the Master's Tools': Olaudah Equiano's Narrative as a Case Study.” Beyond Eurocentrism in Intellectual History, UCL Institute of Advanced Studies, London (September 2nd – September 4th, 2021). [Held online due to COVID-19].
“Paulin J. Hountondji and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge in the Peripheries.” Science Studies Reading Group, Department of Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca (December 14th, 2020) [Held Online due to COVID-19].
“An Intellectual History of the Philosophical Foundations of Women’s Liberation in the PAIGC’s Discourse.” 14th Greater New York Area African History Workshop, Cornell University, Ithaca (Oct 23rd, 2020). [Held Online due to COVID-19]
“The Philosopher of Emptiness and the God-Intoxicated Man: Nāgārjuna in Dialogue with Spinoza.” 2020 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Philadelphia (Jan 8th - Jan 11th, 2020).
“Analyzing Participatory Action Research as a Quest for Hermeneutic Justice.” 2019 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association (APA), New York (Jan 7th-10th,2019).
“Helmi Sharawy: An Egyptian Perspective on Modern African Intellectual History.” Africa in the Middle East/The Middle East in Africa Workshop, New York (November 18th - November 19th, 2019).
“Lenin and East-African Marxism.” CSAAD-ASWAD Medial Meeting, “Black Internationalism and New York City”, New York (May 2nd – 3rd,2019)
“Theoretical Advances in East-African Marxism in the 1970s.” Revolutionary Lefts in Sub-Saharan Africa (1960s and 1970s): A Political and Social History to be Written, Dakar, Senegal (October 30th - November 1st, 2019).
“Hegel and the Historiographic Consequences of Thinking that Systematicity is a Necessary Condition for a Body of Thought to be Considered Philosophy.” 32nd International Hegel Congress, Tampere, Finland (June 5-8th,2018).
“Amílcar Cabral’s Interpretation of Historical Materialism.” Fifteenth Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS, London (November 8-11th,2018)
“Hegel’s Proto-Modernist Conception of Philosophy as a Science: A Critique of Alan Richardson’s Account of the Rise of Scientific Philosophy.” The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science Biennial Meeting (HOPOS), Groningen, the Netherlands (July 9-12th,2018)
Interviewed by Lev Moscow on my work on Paulin Hountondji for his podcast “A Correction”, January 8th 2023
Interviewed alongside Pierre Philippe Fraiture and Grant Farred by John Drabinski on the edited volume Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures for the podcast Conversations in Atlantic Theory (February 6th, 2022)
Interviewed by Mostafa Minawi on my work on African Intellectual History, part of a series of interviews done by The Critical Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Studies Initiative, Cornell University (February 23rd, 2022):
“Wahba on Secularization and Relativism” Book Panel on Robert Beshara’s translation of Mourad Wahba’s Fundamentalism and Secularization, Santa Fe Public Library, February 11th, 2022 [Online]
Interviewed on the question, "Do Africans need Karl Marx?" by William Shoki and Sean Jacobs on the platform, "Africa is a Country" (May 4th, 2021)
Republished on the Monthly Review’s website: https://mronline.org/2021/06/05/did-marx-ignore-race-in-his-critique-of-political-economy/
“One Africa, Many Pan-Africanisms: An Interview with Doctor Zeyad El Nabolsy.” 1919 Magazine, July 9th 2024
“Paulin J. Hountondji and the Defense of the Universal: An Interview with Carmen De Schryver (Part II).” Borderlines, April 2nd 2024
“Amilcar Cabral: Falastin fe al-falsafa al-siyasiah al-ifriquiah.”, Al-Akhbar, March 11th, 2023 (Translated by Moussa al-Sadah)
“James Africanus Beale Horton: Racism and the Fate of Naturalism in Victorian Philosophical Anthropology.” Black Issues in Philosophy (Blog of the APA), October 10th, 2023
“On Paulin J. Hountondji and The Notion of “Influence” in Modern African Intellectual History: An Interview with Carmen De Schryver (Part I).” Borderlines, January 9th, 2023
Current Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2024 | AP/PHIL4280 3.0 | A | Science, Nature and God | SEMR |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/MODR1730 6.0 | C | Reasoning About Social Issues | LECT |
Upcoming Courses
| Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winter 2025 | AP/PHIL3180 3.0 | M | Conversations with African Philosophy | LECT |
| Fall/Winter 2024 | AP/MODR1730 6.0 | C | Reasoning About Social Issues | LECT |
