EBOUSSI LECTURES
The ’Eboussi Lectures’ are a one-week series lectures and/or activities by an outstanding African-based scholar or public figure on issues at the crossroads of ethics/political theory, Africa and his own work or public responsibilities. These Lectures are way for EthicsLab to pay tribute to the late Cameroonian philosopher FABIEN EBOUSSI BOULAGA who was highly instrumental in shepherding us to the creation of EthicsLab.
POSTPONED DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
EBOUSSI LECTURES 2020
BY
PAULIN HOUNTONDJI
PHILOSOPHER DANS L’AFRIQUE D’AUJOURD’HUI
We are prood and delighted to welcome the beninese philosopher Paulin Hountoundji as our first Guest for the Eboussi Lectures.
Paulin Hountondji
Hountondji is a philosopher, Politician and academic. Since the 1970s he has taught at the Université Nationale du Benin in Cotonou, where he is Professor of Philosophy. In the early 1990s he briefly served as Minister of Education and Minister for Culture and Communications in the Government of Benin. He is currently Director of the African Centre for Advanced Studies in Porto-Novo, Benin, and served as the Bingham Professor of Humanities from 1 August 2008 to 31 December 2008 at the University of Louisville, in Louisville, KY, USA. In 1999, Hountondji was honored with a Prince Claus Award from the Prince Claus Fund, an international culture and development organisation based in Amsterdam.
Hountondji will give a serie of three public conferences at the Nkolbisson Campus of the UCAC