Interdisciplinary Centre for Global South Studies

Postcolonial Subjectivities in the Global South - Identity, Violence and Wellbeing

Monday 27 July / 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm (CEST)

Conference Panel with:

Federica M. Gonzales Luna Ortiz (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen): Wild Alterity. Violence in Mexico

Dr. Priscillia M. Manjoh (Humboldt Universität Berlin): Bushfalling: Wellbeing of Anglophone Cameroonians

Fernando Wirtz (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen): Beyond sensuality: a postcolonial approach to subjectivity within Hong Kong films

Moderation by Nadja Lobensteiner (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)

Biographies of Speakers

Federica M. González Luna Ortiz

Federica M. González Luna Ortiz is currently in the last section of her PhD project in Philosophy at the University of Tübingen. Her dissertation is about the moral concept of evil in ancient philosophy, especially in Plato and Aristotle. Her Master and Bachelor were also in Philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Her lines of investigation are practical philosophy, metaphysics, postmodern theories of subjectivity, phenomenology and its relation to psychiatry. She has publications in moral philosophy as well as in phenomenology.

Dr. Priscillia M. Manjoh

Dr. Priscillia M. Manjoh was born and raised in Cameroon and presently lives in Berlin. Her area of research includes postcolonial literatures, cultures, nationalism, ethnicity, marginalisation and migration. She is an author of the award-winning novel Snare (2013) and maker of the film Sucki (2017). She obtained her PhD in Philosophy with Professor Susanne Gehrmann from the African Studies Department of the Humboldt University Berlin in 2016. Her most recent publication: Representations and Renegotiations of the Nation in Anglophone Cameroonian Literature (2018) is partly based on her PhD research. She is presently working on her new novel titled Angri. She has taught as guest lecturer at the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies of the Humboldt University Berlin. She is also a literary and human rights activist. She has worked for many organisations for Africa such as the NARUD e.V. Berlin, supported the government of Cameroon with ideas on the reinstallation of peace in the nation and is founder of the association - Initiative Priscillia Manjoh e.V. Berlin.

Dr. Fernando Wirtz

Dr. Fernando Wirtz holds a MA in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires and a PhD in Philosophy from the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He was also a visiting researcher at the Ritsumeikan University and the University of Kyoto in Japan. His interests are Intercultural Philosophy, German Idealism, Japanese Philosophy, Chinese Philosophy and Philosophy in the Global South. He works as a Research Assistant at the Forum Scientiarum (University of Tübingen).