Announcements

PBOS 2012: Race, Class, Gender and State Violence

Nineteenth Annual Conference

October 26 & 27, 2012
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

Call for Papers and Panels

The 19th Annual Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference with the theme, Race ,Class, Gender and State Violence will convene at Texas A&M on October 26&27 2012.

PBOS XVIII: Economic Crisis, Education, and Philosophy

Theme: Economic Crisis, Education and the Role of Philosophy for the African American Public.

Michigan State University (East Lansing, MI)
Oct. 28-29, 2011

NEW: PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Malik Samba
Professor & Coordinator of Africana Studies at California State University-Fresno

UNESCO 2011 Conference Report on Africana Philosophy

2011 International Year for people of African Descent Official UNESCO Conference Website Excerpt from the Final Conference Report by Prof. Leonard Harris The conference brought together philosophers from throughout Africa, its diasporas, and the Americas to address contemporary challenges. It was organized in the framework of the celebration of the International Year for People of
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Calls

PBOS 2012: Race, Class, Gender and State Violence

Nineteenth Annual Conference

October 26 & 27, 2012
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

Call for Papers and Panels

The 19th Annual Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference with the theme, Race ,Class, Gender and State Violence will convene at Texas A&M on October 26&27 2012.

Conferences

PBOS 2012: Race, Class, Gender and State Violence

Nineteenth Annual Conference

October 26 & 27, 2012
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX

Call for Papers and Panels

The 19th Annual Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference with the theme, Race ,Class, Gender and State Violence will convene at Texas A&M on October 26&27 2012.

Papers

The Family and the Intellectual Life by Everet Green

Welcome to one of many events that have been taking place all over the Americas in the realization of what I have been calling the emerging black Enlightenment. In terms of the very modest contribution of the philosophy Born of Struggle Association to this enterprise we have been trying to develop themes over the past
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Resources

Open Letter of Support for Philosophy at Howard University

PURDUE U N I V E R S I T Y DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY Leonard Harris, PH.D. PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, PH.D. PROGRAM November 1, 2010 To: Sidney Ribeau, President, Howard University and Presidential Commission on Academic Renewal, Howard University, 2400 Sixth Street, Washington DC 20059 From: Leonard Harris, Professor of Philosophy; Board, Alain Locke Society;
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