[SydPhil] University of Wollongong Agora Seminar Series: Dr. Bryan Mukandi (UOW)

[Elena Walsh]

Dear all,



The next seminar in this semester's Agora series will be:


*Dr. Bryan Mukandi** (The **University of Wollongong)*

*Anguish, or the exploding atoms of searing vision: reading Marechera
reading Dostoevsky*

Thursday, May 8, 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Building 20, Room 4



*Abstract:*

For Ghanian philosopher, Kwasi Wiredu, it is the shared fact of our
embodiment which paves the way for intercultural understanding. The
Zimbabwe writer, Dambudzo Marechera, grounds his conception of universality
elsewhere. He reads in Fyodor Dostoevsky and Wole Soyinka the same anguish
at play in the face of different, though similarly brutal, social and
political conditions. It is that susceptibility to anguish, the fact of
being sensible or prone to one’s environment, or our vulnerability to being
ground into ‘the raw person’, that Marechera takes to mark our shared
humanity. In making his case, he refers to *Notes from the Underground*, *The
Brothers Karamazov*, *A Dance in the Forest *and *The Interpreters *among
other works. This chapter follows suit with the aim of excavating the
relationship between self and society in two different contexts. The
results, it is hoped, will be useful for the articulation of a critical
phenomenology of anguish.



*Bio:*

Bryan studied medicine at the University of Zimbabwe and interned at the
United Bulawayo Hospitals before emigrating to Ireland, where he studied
the Social Sciences and Philosophy. Since moving to Australia more than a
decade ago, his academic appointments have been in Health Policy and
Systems Research, Medical Ethics, and Philosophy. The bulk of his work
today falls into three categories: Metaphilosophy; Philosophies of the
Global South; and the Health Humanities. What unites these is an abiding
interest in and concern for the wellbeing of the marginalised.


This is an in-person event and there is no need to register. All welcome.




-- 

*Dr. Elena Walsh*

Lecturer

School of Liberal Arts

Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities | 94.19

University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia

*T *+61 2 4220 5692

*W *elenawalsh.squarespace.com
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