Academic voices and knowledge from the so-called "Global South", especially from Sub-Saharan Africa, continue to be marginalized regarding access to and the production and distribution of knowledge. This marginalization affects almos all knowledge domains, including philosophy, business ethics, global health, etc. and contributes to the persistence of power imbalances. Negotiating epistemic justice, understood as enhancing opportunities for equitable participation in the knowledge economy, requires ethics centers across global spaces to commit to this vital task.
The conference aims to provide an opportunity for academics worldwide to engage through co-organized panels with many scholars from across Africa and the rest of the world. The central goals of Ethics Lab include supporting African scholars working on ethical and public policy challenges facing the Central African region and the continent more broadly, thereby increasing the voice and influence of African perspectives in moral and political theory at a global level. There is far too little interaction of this kind, and the conference represents one way in which Ethics Lab aims to facilitate more of it, providing an opportunity for epistemic justice in action.
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