48 FACULTY OF HUMANITIES ANNUAL REPORT 2021 • Lötter, Hennie (2021). Empowerment for Teaching Excellence Through Virtuous Agency. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Our research in 2021 took on a completely new direction, with Professor Catherine Botha’s production of these creative outputs, a first for our department: • “Senseless Kindness” - filmed in October 2021 (short length contemporary ballet trio performed on the UJ Con Cowan stage and professionally filmed. • “Weatherglass” - postponed to 2022 due to Covid-19 (this is a full contemporary ballet and will be taught, rehearsed and performed once Covid-19 restrictions are lifted) Professorial inaguration We are also proud of the continuing evolution of our staff profile and how members of our department continue to climb the academic ranks. In 2021, two UJ philosophers joined the professoriate, with Prof Rafael Winkler and Prof Catherine Botha delivering their professorial inaugural addresses earlier this year. The bedrock of our engagement as a community is our colloquium series, planned and organized by Dr Asheel Singh in 2021. We use the series as a way of keeping in touch with global trends and cutting-edge research in our research fields. This year, the bulk of the colloquium series occurred online, although we managed to have one in-person talk on campus towards the end of the year. The list of colloquium talks for 2021 was as follows: • 10 March, Prof Peter Boghossian (Portland State), ‘ American education’s censorship and illiberalism: coming to a South African campus near you’ • 24 March, Prof David Spurrett (UKZN), ‘On the evolution of preferences’ • 21 April, Prof Dylan Futter (Wits), ‘Socrates on learning to be good’ • 5 May, Prof Itay Shani (Sun Yat-Sen), ‘Cosmopsychism, combination, and coherence’ • 19 May, Dr Anna Pakes (Roehampton), ‘Knowing the dance from the dancer: performability and dancer identity’ • 21 July, Prof Johann Roussow (UFS), ‘The ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’: a case of South African techno-messianism?’ • 18 August, Prof Uchenna Okeja (Rhodes), ‘Global Injustice, Agency and Responsibility’ • 22 September, Prof C. Thi Nguyen (Utah), ‘Transparency is Surveillance’ • 13 October, Prof Smita Sirker (Jawaharlal Nerhu), ‘The Function of Hetu (Probans) and Udāharaṇa (Example) in the Inferential Structure of Indian Logic’ • 15 November, Dr Motsamai Molefe (University of Fort Hare), ‘Partiality and Impartiality in African Philosophy Philosophy’s staff and students were active in arranging and participating in some groundbreaking online conferences and workshops in 2021. These included: • Two ACEPS conferences on Epistemic Injustice and Epistemology of the Internet. • Prof Catherine Botha was Lead Humanities Organiser (with Prof Shireen Motala and Prof Kirti Menon) of the “Teaching and Learning during the time of Covid-19” conference 2021. • Professor Rafael Winkler was an organiser of the 7th Annual International Conference of the Centre for Phenomenology in South Africa, Philosophy and Eschatology • Prof Catherine Botha organised a workshop on Professor David Benatar’s (UCT) book The Second Sexism, Dr Asheel Singh was co-organiser and respondent • Zinhle Mncube was one of the organisers of the ‘What is Epitemic Decolonisation?’ talk series, which included Prof Veli Mitova, Zinhle Mncube and Dr Chad Harris as speakers.
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