World Philosophies and Traditions of Knowledge-Making: Why Now? Why Here? 
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
19^th-21^st September 2022
(hybrid workshop)

Traditionally, scholarship on world philosophies has been predominantly tacked onto the nation-states that populate the world discourse today. Although such a framing might suit the needs of the current academic setup in philosophy in North America and Europe, it is in need of an urgent overhaul. For one, the migration of ideas that have impacted world-philosophical traditions cannot be studied adequately when they are read as if they were derivative of the national context in which they are located today. For another, positions associated with these traditions are not mere historical relics. Critical interventions that took place within them continue to inform the present in many ways.

World Philosophies and Traditions of Knowledge-Making will bring together scholars who challenge contemporary ways of studying world-philosophical traditions that juxtapose them against each other and/or depict them as bygone relics of a hoary past. It endeavors to foreground deviant ways of doing this work, both in research and teaching and provide a forum to exchange thoughts about how to carry forward this work into the future.

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Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach
(organizer)

Program (in CET)
19^th September, 2022  
(Room: Forum 2) 
10:00-11:00 Helen Verran, Charles Darwin University (zoom)
Conceptualizing Concepts as Praxial in Institutionally Working Disparate Epistemic Traditions

11:00-12:00 Lilith W. Lee, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Merdeka in Ideas: (Re)constructing a Straits Chinese Philosophy

12:00-13:00 Mariëtte Willemsen, Amsterdam University College
Teaching ‘Comparative Philosophy’: Pitfalls and Antidotes

13:00-14:30 Lunch break 

14:30-16:30 Carlo Ierna, Guno Jones, Norah Karrouche, Marije Martijn (all Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Panel: Teaching the Canon

16:30: 17:00 Coffee Break 

17:00-19:00 Amy Donahue, Kennesaw State University
Workshop: Using Sanskrit Logic to Invigorate Democracy and Resist Epistemic Chaos

20^th September, 2022  
(Room: Agora 4) 
9:00-10:00 Emma Irwin, University of Hawai’i, Manoa
Tba

10:00-11:00 Jayan Nayar, University of Warwick (zoom)
On ‘Europe’ and the ‘Postcolony’: An Anti-Colonial Repudiation

11:00-12:00 Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Knowledge Making Through Art under Conditions of Coloniality: The Tagorean Vision

12:00-13:00 Richard King, SOAS, University of London
“Religion” and Cognitive Imperialism: India and the Parochialization of “Non-Western Philosophy”

13:00-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-15:30 Stephen Harris, University Leiden
Can We Understand Bodhisattva Ethics as Eudaimonistic?

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Mickaella Perina, University of Massachusetts
Keynote: Authority, Expertise and Coloniality: Reflections on World Philosophy

21^th September, 2022  
(Room: Agora 4) 
10:00-12:30 Panel: Working with World Philosophies for Doctoral Dissertations

Martine Berenpas, Leiden University
Finding The Pivot of Dào as a Method for Global Philosophy

Saheed Bello, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam/SOAS, University of London
Òrúnmìlà, Orality and Philosophy

Staci-Marie Dehaney, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Military Objects and Colonial Thinking

Li-Fan Lee, Leiden University
What Are We Doing Exactly? Self-Conceptions of Intercultural Philosophy and a “Hermeneutic” Model

Arnold Yasin Mol, University Leiden
The Kalāmic Anthropology of Al-Māturīdī (d. 944 CE)

12:30-12:45 Coffee break 

12:45-13:30 Chiara Robbiano, University College Utrecht

World Philosophies from Concepts to Practice—the Researcher as Educator and Citizen (includes concluding discussion)