Seminar Discussed Philosophical Views on Place and Memory in Africa

On the 29th of January, the Center for African Studies held the third session of The World Seen from Africa seminar series, titled “Crossings and the Production of Places: Challenges by/with Utopias and Dystopias in Africa,” led by Professor Jean Godefroy Bidima, philosopher and Yvonne Arnoult Chairholder in French and Francophone Studies at Tulane University.

Drawing on continental philosophy, African philosophies, Francophone literatures and arts, juridical anthropology, and medical ethics, Professor Bidima examined interpretations of utopia and dystopia in Africa. The session addressed themes related to place and non-place, memory in the digital age, heritage, and contemporary understandings of dwelling.