EHS Seminar: Professor Filipe Carreira da Silva

Amílcar Cabral remains one of the most important figures in the anticolonial struggles across the world, and most especially for Africa. At the intersection of ecological struggles and neoliberal capitalism, Cabral's thought provides insights for useful reimagination of what it means to be human, in the wake of European modernity and colonisation. To build onto these discourses for freedom and liberation, Environmental Humanities South (EHS) is excited to host sociologist Professor Filipe Carreira da Silva, who will give a seminar titled 'Amílcar Cabral and the anticolonial critique of “the human”

DATE: 19 June 2025

TIME: 11 AM - 12:30 PM

VENUE: EHS Seminar Room, Level 4 Humanities Building, Upper Campus UCT

Join online, via ZOOM: Meeting ID: 986 4754 9433 | Passcode: 873036

Email zainab.adams@uct.ac.za to RSVP

SPEAKER BIO: Filipe Carreira da Silva is Research Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge. Since 2000, he has published dozens of books and articles. In 2010, his book "Mead and Modernity” was awarded the ASA Distinguished Book Award in history of sociology. Filipe's current research is on the anticolonial critique of humanism between the 1930s and 1970s.