BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17601-e3d32dd59497c211557c079b41964f72@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20261005T162826Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251031T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251031T110000 SUMMARY:African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistem ologies—Hanétha Vété-Congolo DESCRIPTION:\nAbstract:\n\n“Creole\,” as per the plantation nomenclature \, is a tool to which enslavers in the French colonies resorted to perfe ct the enslavement of Africans. De facto\, that communication means bear s all the unethical inflictions of the plantation. This fact also raises critical philosophical questions directly engaging thought and practice s related to humankind and humanity. Using primarily the example of the Martinican context\, I want to show how the philosophical intervention o f enslaved Africans onto “Creole” provided the latter with the ethical h umanness allowing it to escape the fate enslavers had set for it to eter nally be a plantation language dooming its (native) speakers\, across ti me and space.\n\nBio:\n\nHanétha Vété-Congolo is Henry Wadsworth Longfel low Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures at Bowdoin College\, past chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures\, pres ident emerita of the Caribbean Philosophical Association\, founder and c oordinator of Lyannaj des chercheurs guadeloupéens\, guyanais et martini quais aux États-Unis\, and co-founder and co-director of the CPA/ASEPHI African School of Philosophy in Senegal. Vété-Congolo is affiliated to t he Africana\, the Latin American\, Caribbean and Latinx and the Gender\, Women and Sexuality Studies Programs of her institution. She is a membe r of AI4A-Artificial Intelligence for Afrika\, a Board member of Women i n French\, of the Advisory Board of The Society for Caribbean Research ( S.O.C.A.R.E)\, Membre d’Honneur of the Research Group on Black Latin Ame rica at the Université de Perpignan Via Domitia\, France (CRESEM/GRENAL\ , Languages and identities) and a member of the Committee on Gender Issu es of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. She is al so a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy and of Journal of African and African Diasporic Studies.\n\nH er scholarship focuses principally on Caribbean and (West/Central) Afric an critical thought\, philosophy\, literature\, culture\, and orality an d\, on discourses by and about women of the Caribbean and\, West and Cen tral Africa. Vété-Congolo is author of Nous sommes Martiniquaises\, Pawò l en bouches de femmes châtaignes : Une pensée existentialiste noire sur la question des femmes (2020)\,  L’interoralité caribéenne: le mot cont é de l’identité (Vers un traité d’esthétique caribéenne) (1st ed. 2011. 2nd ed. 2016)\, and editor of Pensées et philosophies d’Afrique\, Pour d emain : voir\, comprendre et penser l’Afrique d’aujourd’hui (with Hady B a and Oumar Dia. Présence africaine 201\, 2022)\, Penser le sujet femme noire francophone. Recherches féministes\, vol. 34\, N.2\, 2022 (with Ag nès Berthelot-Raffard)\, The Caribbean Oral Tradition (2016)\, Léon-Gont ran Damas : Une Négritude entière (2015) Le conte d’hier\, aujourd’hui : Oralité et modernité (2014)\, and MaComère: Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (2004).\n\nAmong other refereed journals\, her articles have appeared in the C.L.R. James Journal: A Rev iew of Caribbean Ideas\, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy\, Journal of Contemporary Thought\, Journal of World Philosophies\, Ethiop iques : Revue négro-africaine de littérature et de philosophie\, Journal of Black Studies\, Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklore\, W adabagaï: A journal of the Caribbean Diaspora\, Postcolonial Text\, Prés ence francophone\, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal\, Les Cahiers du GRELCEF\, Women in French\, Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psy choanalysis.\n\nHer poetry collections\, Avoir et Être : Ce que j’Ai\, c e que je Suis was published with Le chasseur Abstrait in 2009 and\, Mon parler de Guinée in 2015 with L’Harmattan\, coll. Poètes des cinq contin ents. Her unpublished collection of poetry Womb of a Woman was Shortlist ed for the 2015 Small Axe Literary Competition.\n\nFor more details: htt ps://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-hanetha-vete-congo lo/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Abstract:
“Creole,” as per the plantation nomenclature, is a tool to which enslave rs in the French colonies resorted to perfect the enslavement of African s. De facto, that communication means bears all the unethical infliction s of the plantation. This fact also raises critical philosophical questi ons directly engaging thought and practices related to humankind and hum anity. Using primarily the example of the Martinican context, I want to show how the philosophical intervention of enslaved Africans onto “Creol e” provided the latter with the ethical humanness allowing it to escape the fate enslavers had set for it to eternally be a plantation language dooming its (native) speakers, across time and space.

Bio:
Ha nétha Vété-Congolo is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Professor of Romance La nguages and Literatures at Bowdoin College, past chair of the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, president emerita of the Caribbea n Philosophical Association, founder and coordinator of Lyannaj des cher cheurs guadeloupéens, guyanais et martiniquais aux États-Unis, and co-fo under and co-director of the CPA/ASEPHI African School of Philosophy in Senegal. Vété-Congolo is affiliated to the Africana, the Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx and the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Progra ms of her institution. She is a member of AI4A-Artificial Intelligence f or Afrika, a Board member of Women in French, of the Advisory Board of T he Society for Caribbean Research (S.O.C.A.R.E), Membre d’Honneur of the Research Group on Black Latin America at the Université de Perpignan Vi a Domitia, France (CRESEM/GRENAL, Languages and identities) and a member of the Committee on Gender Issues of the International Federation of Ph ilosophical Societies. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy and of Journal o f African and African Diasporic Studies.

Her scholarship focu ses principally on Caribbean and (West/Central) African critical thought , philosophy, literature, culture, and orality and, on discourses by and about women of the Caribbean and, West and Central Africa. Vété-Congolo  is author of Nous sommes Martiniquaises, Pawòl en bouches de femmes châtaignes : Une pensée existentialiste noire sur la question des femmes (2020),  L’interoralité caribéenne: le mot conté de l’identité (Vers un traité d’esthétique caribéenne) (1st ed. 2011. 2nd ed. 2016), and editor of Pensées et philosophies d’Afrique, Pour dem ain : voir, comprendre et penser l’Afrique d’aujourd’hui (with Hady Ba a nd Oumar Dia. Présence africaine 201, 2022), Penser le sujet femme noire francophone. Recherches féministes, vol. 34, N.2, 2022 (with Agnès Bert helot-Raffard), The Caribbean Oral Tradition (2016), Léon-G ontran Damas : Une Négritude entière (2015) Le conte d’hier, au jourd’hui : Oralité et modernité (2014), and MaComère: Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars (2004).< /p>

Among other refereed journals, her articles have appeared in the < em>C.L.R. James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas, Journal o f French and Francophone Philosophy, Journal of Contemporary Th ought, Journal of World Philosophies, Ethiopiques : Re vue négro-africaine de littérature et de philosophie, Journal o f Black Studies, Handbook of African Oral Traditions and Folklo re, Wadabagaï: A journal of the Caribbean Diaspora, Po stcolonial Text, Présence francophone, Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Jo urnal, Les Cahiers du GRELCEF, Women in French, Blooms bury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis.

Her poetry co llections, Avoir et Être : Ce que j’Ai, ce que je Suis was publ ished with Le chasseur Abstrait in 2009 and, Mon parler de Guinée in 2015 with L’Harmattan, coll. Poètes des cinq continents. Her unpub lished collection of poetry Womb of a Woman was Shortlisted for the 2015 Small Axe Literary Competition.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-hanetha-vete- congolo/

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