The College of Fellows Lecture Series invites international fellows and Tübingen academics to present their research and network. Every month, fellows and international guest researchers from the University of Tübingen present their research findings. If you are interested, please contact infospam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de 

The CoF Lunch Talk Series invites international fellows and Tübingen researchers to exchange ideas in a relaxed atmosphere during the lunch break. Each month, a fellow presents his or her research. The CoF Lunch Talks take place in the Villa Köstlin. 

The online lecture series is organised in cooperation with the IAS Durham. The lecture series is dedicated to the topic of Belonging as part of the ‘Joint Belonging’ project of the CoF and IAS Durham.

Online lecture series in cooperation with the Gesellschaft für Interkulturelle Philosophie (GIP). The GIP strives to make intercultural philosophy known as a methodological point of view. This way, they want to facilitate the rapprochement of all world philosophies, in lectures, in research and teaching and in discussion rounds.

15-16 May     Villa Köstlin | Rümelinstraße 27 

The history of the world is deeply rooted in narratives of difference and violence. By this, we mean that nations have either been perpetrators or victims of various kinds of violence through negative constructions of difference. Increasingly, in the ‘global south’, there is a strong commitment to critiquing debris of neo-colonial and systemic structures of violence in post-colonial African societies. It is important to note that colonialism constitutes physical violence, social, and epistemological oppression of Africans in particular and the global south in general. There is a strong push back against the various ways colonialism, structural, and epistemic oppression are sustained in postcolonial Africa. In view of this ideological disposition that is aimed at undoing structures of colonial imperialism, there have been numerous scholarly accounts addressing various themes on the topic, and the main approaches have been informed by theories of decolonisation. Contemporary forms of resistance and push backs are not only directed toward historical injustice, marginalisation, oppression and exclusion, but also to blatant hostile conditions of systemic violence and epistemic marginalisation in the various forms they remain endemic and are valorised across the world. However, there has been no sufficient commitment to ‘internal violence’ as a plausible decolonial response. Please find more information on the workshop in its program.