5th Anniversary Conference of the Competence Center for African Research (CCAR)

9:30-10:00

• Official Opening

Session 1: Feminism and Consent
10:00-12:00

• Panel 1: Sharpening the Focus on Gender Equality: Women, Decolonization, and the Future of Africa
• Panelists:
  • Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob (University of Hildesheim/University of Calabra): “From Liberation Struggle to Post-Independence Marginalization: Decolonization, an Unfinished Project for African Women”
  • Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola (University of Hildesheim/University of Ibadan): “Diagnosing Patricolonization: Rethinking the Roots of African Women’s Perennial Subjugation”
  • Olajumoke Akiode (Osun State University): “Toward a Gender-Focused Decolonization Agenda for Africa”
  • Lerato Posholi (University of Hildesheim): “African Women’s Epistemic Agency in Decolonization”
• Moderation:
  • Belén Pueyo-Ibáñez (ETH Zürich)

12:00-13:00

• Lunch Break

13:00-15:00

• Panel 2: Consent and Community: African and Non-African Philosophy
• Panelists:
  • Bernard Matolino (University of KwaZulu-Natal): “Consent, Consensus, and Community: Rethinking Kwasi Wiredu’s Residue of Difference”
  • Modestus Onyeaghalaji (University of Lagos): “A Pragmatic Reimagining of Consent and Community for Research Ethics in Africa”
  • Nadia Mazouz (ETH Zürich): “Too)-Late-Modernities: The Constitution of Communities and the Role of Consent”
• Moderation
  • Niklas Kirchner (ETH Zürich)

15:00-15:30

• Coffee Break

Session 2: Decarbonization and Bioethics
15:30-17:15

• Panel 3: Bringing Local Community Voices into the Decarbonization Debate
• Panelists:
  • Elifuraha Laltaika (Tumaini University): “Energy Transition and Its Impacts on Africa’s Indigenous Peoples”
  • Gift Dembetembe (University of Fribourg): “The Unintended Consequences of Decarbonization”
  • Festus Boamah (Bayreuth University): “Navigating Uncertainties and Energy Justice Issues in Energy Transitions”
• Moderation:
  • Robby Kapesa (Copperbelt University/University of St.Gallen)

17:15-17:30

• Break

17:30-19:15

• Panel 4: Translating Bioethics in the African Context
• Panelists:
  • Kirubel Manyazewal Mussie (Addis Ababa): “Critical Perspectives on Patient Autonomy in Geriatric Care: Empirical Examples from Ethiopia”
  • Cynthia Khamala Wangamati (University of Oxford): “Rethinking Autonomy in Sexual and Reproductive Health in African Health Care Settings”
• Moderation:
  • Daniel Lucas (ETH Zürich

Session 5: Human Rights, Trust and Economic Growth 

09:00-10:45

• Panel 9: Does Business and Human Rights need to be Decolonized?
• Panelists:
  • Nojeem Amodu (Independent Researcher): “Decolonized Future for Africa: Embracing Afro-Communitarianism and Resurrecting Indigenous Business Observances”
  • Rose Wangui Kimotho (University of St.Gallen/CCAR): “Decolonising Human Rights due Diligence”
  • Bantayehu Demlie Gezahegn (University of Bayreuth): “From Ubuntu to Duties to Direct Corporate Accountability: The Making of an African Approach to Business and Human Rights”
• Moderation:
  • Mariam Shakil (University of St. Gallen)

10:45-11:15

• Coffee Break

11:15-12:30

• Roundtable: Economic Growth, Happiness and African Values
• Panelists:
  • Dominic Roser (Université de Fribourg)
  • Vicky Messanga (University of Dschang)
• Moderation:
  • Thierry Ngosso (University of St. Gallen)

12:30-13:30

• Lunch Break

13:30-15:30

• Panel 10: The Social Dimension of Trust and Distrust in African Contexts
• Panelists:
  • Aderonke Ajiboro (Obafemi Awolowo University): “Trust, Communality, and Knowledge Systems in Africa”
  • Adaba Koffi Amessou (University of Lomé/CROP): “Who Do Africans Trust Most?”
  • Kutoma J. Wakunuma (Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility): “Rethinking Trustworthy AI through an African Lens”
• Moderation:
  • Louisa Estadieu (ETH Zürich)

15:30

• Closing