“Ubuntu is the principle that we act humanely and with respect towards others as a way of demanding the same from them.” Mogobe Ramose
On the occasion of the translation of his book on ubuntu into Dutch, South-African philosopher Professor Mogobe Ramose will be in the Netherlands. On January 19, he will give a keynote lecture, after which sociologist Rolando Vázquez will join Prof. Ramose in a conversation on dignity, resilience and justice.
According to Ramose, the ubuntu understanding of justice as balance and harmony demands the restoration of justice by reversing the dehumanizing consequences of colonial conquest and by eliminating racism.

Programme January 19, 19:00-21:00 (OBA, 5th floor)
→ Welcome Black Renaissance by Patricia Kaersenhout
→ Introduction: Renate Schepen (publisher Ten Have)
→ Keynote by Prof. Mogobe Ramose
→ Conversation Prof. Mogobe Ramose, Rolando Vázquez & Grâce Ndjako

After the event, we will have drinks and it will be possible to buy the book (in Dutch) and have it signed by Prof. Mogobe Ramose.
Before this lecture (from 14:00-17:00), we are also organising a workshop on ubuntu, with, among others, philosopher Grâce Ndjako: please find more information here: https://www.eventbrite.nl/e/tickets-workshop-ubuntu-waardigheid-veerkracht-rechtvaardigheid-41900562711.

Mogobe B. Ramose obtained his PhD from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 1983. He worked there as a research fellow, and later at the University of Zimbabwe. From 1993-1996 he was a lecturer in the Philosophy of Law, at the Katholieke Universiteit Brabant, Tilburg, in the Netherlands. Ramose is now Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria.

Rolando Vázquez is associate professor of Sociology at University College Roosevelt and affiliated researcher at the research institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Utrecht. For the 9th time this year, he is organizing the Decolonial Summer School in Middelburg together with Walter Mignolo.