Lewis Gordon is an Afro-Jewish philosopher, political thinker, educator, and musician (drums and piano), and Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies with affiliation in El Instituto and the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Gordon has written extensively on race and racism, postcolonial phenomenology, Africana and black existentialism, and on the works and thought of Frantz Fanon and W.E.B. Du Bois. He is currently Nelson Mandela Distinguished Visiting Professor (for 2014 and 2015) at the University of Rhodes.

TOPIC:  "Africana Critical Pedagogy" - The focus of this seminar will be the Africana philosophical influences on Paulo Freire's thought and also critiques raised from Africana existential phenomenological approaches and some other pedagogical considerations to consider for practices of emancipatory education.

DATE: 21 October

VENUE: Room 43, Education Building, Pietermaritzburg campus

TIME:  2.30p.m.