Indigenous Climate Knowledge in Africa: the Need for Global Climate Justice

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Keynote Lecture from the 2023 - 24 Humanities and Identities Visiting Professor, Workineh Kelbessa. In person and Online.

Lecture Room 1, Blavatnik School of Government

<h3>This keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Workineh Kelbessa, the TORCH / All Souls Humanities and Identities Professor for 2023 - 24.</h3>To register for the event, please select either in person attendance or online, live-stream viewing of the lecture at the next stage.The in-person lecture will take place on Friday 24th November, at Lecture Room 1 at the Blavatnik School of Government from 17.30 - 18.30 and will be followed by a drinks reception until 19.00The lecture will be also be live-streamed online, and available globally. If you wish to watch online, please register for an online ticket on the next page, and a link will be sent to you in advance of the broadcast.<a href="https://torch.ox.ac.uk/people/workineh-kelbessa" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Professor Workineh Kelbessa </a>is a Professor of Philosophy at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He earned a BA in Philosophy from Addis Ababa University, an MA in Development Studies from Erasmus University Rotterdam, and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Wales, Cardiff, now Cardiff University. Professor Kelbessa’s research interests are wide-ranging and highly interdisciplinary: African philosophy, indigenous knowledge, environmental philosophy, environmental ethics, development ethics, climate ethics, water ethics, globalization, and the philosophy of love and sex. He has published extensively in a wide range of fields. His work tackles significant problems the world faces, especially pressingly in Africa’s nations. His most recent publications include <a href="https://www.crvp.org/publications/Series-II/24-Contents.pdf" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Philosophical Responses to Global Challenges with African Examples</a> (edited with Tenna Dewo, The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, 2022), “<a href="https://meteor.springer.com/project/dashboard.jsf?id=1004&tab=About&auth_user=557193&auth_key=3347319063f650cec4d635d90a3c2423" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Environmental Injustice and Disposal of Hazardous Waste in Africa</a>” (2023), “<a href="https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Applied-Climate-Change-Ethics/Brown-Gwiazdon-Westra/p/book/9780367484583" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Ethical Responsibility of Developed Countries to Help Finance Adaptation Costs in Poor Developing Countries</a>” (2024), and “African Environmental Philosophy and the Quest for a Sustainable Future” (2024).Kelbessa has held visiting posts at various institutions including the University of Rostock, Germany (2005), Stellenbosch University, South Africa (2005), the University of Greifswald, Germany (2007-2008), the Technical University of Dresden [TU Dresden], Germany (2011), the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany (2011, 2015, 2019, 2020, and 2022), and the University of Oxford, United Kingdom (2022). He has travelled widely and visited various universities and has given invited lectures and conference papers in Africa, Europe, America, Asia, and Australia. He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), the Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA), The British Council, UNESCO, The Leche Trust, the Fulbright Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Africa Oxford Initiative.In 2012, he was appointed a member of the World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST) by the Director-General of UNESCO, on which he served until 2019. He was a member of the International Panel on Social Progress (IPSP) from 2015 to 2017, and a Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany. He is currently a member of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and serves as a member of several other international professional associations. Moreover, he was a member of the Editorial Board of Environmental Ethics and has served on the Editorial Boards of various journals including Health Care Analysis, the African Journal of Environmental Ethics and Values, the Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, and Environmental Values.While at the University of Oxford, Professor Kelbessa will be focusing on research related to indigenous climate knowledge in Africa and the need for global climate justice. He is hosted in Oxford by Professor Roger Crisp and the <a href="https://www.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics</a> at the <a href="https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Faculty of Philosophy</a>.Professor Kelbessa is the current TORCH/ All Souls <a href="https://torch.ox.ac.uk/torch-global-south-visiting-professors-and-fellows" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Humanities and Identities Visiting Professor</a> 2023/2024.

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