Centennial Commemoration Moves to SAAP Portland
100 Year Anniversary commemoration moves to Portland for the 2016 meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP.) This Alain Locke Society panel at SAAP will be held in honor of the 100 year anniversary of the lecture series delivered by Alain Locke in 1916 entitled “Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race” which he also delivered in the Spring of the previous year. The lecture was given under the joint auspices of the … [Read More...]
Philosophy Born of Struggle 2015 – UCONN Storrs
Embodied Philosophy & Epistemologies of Liberation November 6-7, 2015 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, UCONN and the Caribbean Philosophical Association "All philosophies, it seems to me, are in ultimate derivation philosophies of life and not abstract, disembodied 'objective' reality; products of time, place and situation and thus systems of timed history rather than timeless eternity." (Alain Locke, 1935) The 2014 Philosophy … [Read More...]
APA-Eastern Symposium to Commemorate Centennial of Locke Lecture Series
"100 Years of Race Contacts and Inter-Racial Relations a Symposium in Honor of Alain L. Locke" This symposium will be held in honor of the 100 year anniversary of the lecture series delivered by Alain Locke in 1916 entitled “Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race” which he also delivered in the Spring of the previous year. The lecture was given under the joint auspices of the Howard Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of … [Read More...]
The African American Philosophy and the Diaspora Book Series
African American intellectual history is replete with profound reflections and criticisms of a philosophical nature on the historical experiences of African descendant peoples in the Americas. The philosophic thought of African American men and women on prevailing American conceptions of freedom, liberation, race, equality, democracy, and personhood, have been among the most philosophically fecund in all of the Americas. Even where this work was not carried out by men and women with formal … [Read More...]
Locke’s Philosophy: Philosophic Values and World Citizenship
"Philosophic Values and World Citizenship is a Sankofan knockout to the all too common conversations in American philosophy that continue to overlook the significance of Alain Locke in pragmatism, preferring instead the stolid rhetoric of canonical figures—like John Dewey or Josiah Royce—who held incomplete (racially excluding) democratic visions. Carter and Harris have compiled an array of primary texts and secondary reflections that demonstrate the innovative foresight and conceptual resources … [Read More...]
Alain Locke’s Haiti Lectures in French
LE ROLE DU NEGRE DANS LA CULTURE DES AMÉRIQUES Alain LEROY LOCKE Présentation d’Anthony MANGEON Mangeon provides for the first time Locke's six lectures on Haiti, translated and published in French. In addition, he translated into French Locke's: “American literary tradition and the Negro” (1926), “The Negro in American Culture” (1939) and “Color : Unfinished business of Democracy” (1942). It also comes with biographical and bibliographical notes on (almost) everyone quoted in the … [Read More...]
