Work Meeting with Souleymane Bachir Diagne
Prof. Souleymane Bachir Diagne in Discussion with emerging scholars at the Research Training Groups 2686 Contradiction Studies.
Prof. Dr. Souleymane Bachir Diagne is a philosopher in the Department of French at Columbia University in New York. A graduate of the world-renowned École Normale Supérieure in Paris, where he studied with Jacques Derrida and Louis Althusser, among others. Diagne was initially Professor of Philosophy at the Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar (Senegal), 1993-99 personal advisor to the Senegalese President Abdou Diouf for the areas of culture and education, before moving to the USA in 2002, where he has been working at Columbia University in New York since 2008 following a professorship in African philosophy at Northwestern University (Evanston/Chicago).
Prof. Diagne is one of the world’s leading experts in the research fields of African philosophy and literature, the history of philosophy, epistemology and Islamic philosophy. Recently, he has been working on theories of universalism and the question of restitution in colonial contexts. His publications have received numerous awards (including the Edouard Glissant Prize and the Dagnan-Bouveret Prize for Moral and Political Sciences) and are available in French and English. A whole series of interviews translated into German, for example in Merkur, ZEIT Online or on arte, also make his thoughts accessible to the German public. Diagne is a member of the advisory board of several journals such as the renowned “Présence Africaine” and is chairman of the scientific advisory board for the Franco-German Fund for Provenance Research, especially on African artifacts, at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin.
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