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In African culture and spiritual life, the conception of togetherness has grounded a categorical responsibility for caring for the community, addressing its needs, and safeguarding its communal essence.

International Seminar on Africa’s Ethics of Care Facing COVID-19

COVID-19 pandemic has paused the routine life, while generating deep concerns about the future of the communities in developing countries, especially their immediate living conditions

International Seminar on Africa’s Spiritual Response to Human Suffering: Nigeria and COVID-19

International Seminar on Racism, Equality and Love of the Community in Time of Crisis by APGC

Celebrating Womanhood: Make it Happen

Alternative Perspectives and Global Concernes (ap-gc.net)By Dr. Mahmoud MasaeliThe 6th International SeminarAfrica’s Ethics of Care Facing COVID-19In African culture and spiritual life, the conception of togetherness has grounded a categorical responsibility for caring for the community, addressing its needs, and safeguarding its communal essence. This responsibility is best manifested in African ethics of care in such a way that it is fundamentally different from the Western-based version of such ethics. In this particular ethics, taking care of other’s life is interwoven with not only a pathway to the formation and consolidation of the identity but also a sense of brotherhood and responsibility for the common good. In responding to the urgency of the COVID-19 calamity, and moving toward the construction of social life in the Post COVID-19 era, Africa’s ethics of care must play a role which is essentially different from the response to the pandemic by the western societies. It is quite evident that Africa complies with science and new discoveries in coping with the tough and unsettled situation. However, Africa enjoys a rich cultural and spiritual character that can help its people extend beyond the scientific aspects of dealing with the situation and provide complimentary assistance for the affected and vulnerable people. The questions raised for discussion in this seminar are:<ul><li>Would ethics of care in Africa’s culturally diverse perception, affect the current and standard scientific efforts in dealing with the COVID-19 Pandemic?</li><li>What is the essence of this ethics and what implication could it have for the pandemic and the Post COVID-19 era?</li><li>Could Africa’s spiritual and cultural worldview share its achievements with the rest of the world in the time of crisis? How?</li><li>In what way could ethics of care become a source of inspiration in fostering capacity-building, empowering vulnerable individuals, and restoring their dignity?</li><li>Given the experience learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, what advice could these ethics provide for social protection policies related to the affected people?</li></ul>This topic and exemplary questions raised will be discussed by our participants who are experts in Ethics, spirituality, politics, social activism, and politics. This seminar format webinar will be held via a Zoom teleconference and will be broadcasted live. It will also be recorded for offline social media.We encourage our speakers to submit a short paper of 1500-2500 words to be published on the website of APGC. The collected paper will also be published in a public e-book by APGC.Date: Friday, July 10th, 2020 Time: 13h00 East Canada and the US, 20h20 Central Europ, and 17h00 in NigeriaRegistration and Participation: Free of chargeZoom informationTopic: Africa’s ethics of careTime: Jul 10, 2020 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)Join Zoom Meeting<a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86000667724?pwd=eW1FdDQrcmtrWmkwRzhUME90WitLdz09" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86000667724?pwd=eW1FdDQrcmtrWmkwRzhUME90WitLdz09</a>&nbsp;Meeting ID: 860 0066 7724Password: 875117The panelistsDr. Stanley Uche Anozie teaches at Indiana University Kokomo, Indiana. He is also an adjunct professor at University of Indianapolis, Indiana. In 2007, he was awarded a Master’s Scholarship from SSHRC and a Doctoral Fellowship from Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Canada) for 2011-2012. Anozie is Vice-President APGC (ap-gc.net). He has published extensively, among them is the 2020 Hans-Georg Gadamer and African Hermeneutic Philosophy. Anozie’s areas of research include Western Philosophy, African Philosophy and Religions, Africana Studies, Applied Ethics, Hermeneutics, Continental Philosophy, Hermeneutic of Political Belongingness, Social and Political Philosophy.Dr. Aderemi Oladele specialises in international development policy, Africa’s geopolitics, governance and public sector management. He works as a Senior Research Officer at the Permanent Delegation of Nigeria to UNESCO in Paris. His research interests are in Africa’s geopolitics and political economy; sustainable development; results culture in international development management; and the linkages between internationally development policy, national and local development.Aderemi is the Founder and Lead Analyst at 3psmars International, a nonprofitthink tank focused on capacity building and knowledge management for development effectiveness, with special focus on Africa.Dr. Kanakulya Dickson is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, Makerere University. He holds a PhD (Makerere-Uganda); Licentiate (Linköping-Sweden); MA Philosophy (Bergen-Norway) and BA (Makerere-Uganda). He has research interest in bioethics, governance philosophy, sustainability studies, social justice, philosophy of peace, and futures research. Dickson has been involved in national, regional and international collaborative research and has several published works to his credit. He’s also a member of various research networks including: Alternative Perspectives on Global Concerns (APGC) group; Africa Policy Centre (APC) think tank; the European Society for Research in Ethics (Societas Ethica); and the Academic Network on Legal Empowerment of the Poor (ANLEP).Dr. Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu is a Professor of African Religion and Cultural Studies. He is currently the Rector of Villanova Polytechnic, Imesi Ile, Osun State and a Visiting Professor to the University of Jos, Plateau State and the Augustinian Institute, Makurdi. He is a member of the Governing Council of Veritas University Abuja, Nigeria; the Global President of the World Cultural Studies Research Association (WCSRA) based in India and the President of the Association for the Promotion of African Studies (APAS). Kanu is the Editor-in-Chief of IGWEBUIKE: An African Journal of Arts and Humanities (IAAJAH); Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development (JASSD); Villanova Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and AMAMIHE: Journal of Applied Philosophy.Dr. Mahmoud Masaeli is a Canadian Iranian political philosopher, ethicist, spiritualist, poet, and a global think tank leader. His area of research interest includes Global Ethics, Global Justice, Hermeneutics of Selfhood, Human Rights, Human Development, and universal spirituality. Mahmoud is the Founder and Executive Director of APGC (ap-gc.net). Mahmoud has published extensively in global ethics, global development, spirituality and ethics of globality. He also a visiting professor at Ottawa University. He will chair and speak in this seminar.<a href="https://ap-gc.net/events/" target="_blank">Read more on APGC’s Website.</a>&nbsp;

Rights: Can view and downloadLicense: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike LicenseAPGC (Alternative Perspectives and Global Concern) 6th International Seminar on Africa’s Ethics of Care Facing COVID-19Date: Friday, July 10th, 2020Time: 13h00 East Canada and the US, 19h00 Central Europe, and 17h00 in NigeriaRegistration and Participation: Free of charge

Alternative Perspectives and Global Concernes (ap-gc.net)By Dr. Mahmoud MasaeliThe 7th International SeminarAfrica’s Spiritual Response to Human Suffering: Nigeria and COVID-19COVID-19 pandemic has paused the routine life, while generating deep concerns about the future of the communities in developing countries, especially their immediate living conditions. Imperative in the state of thought on the crisis, is the role that spirituality can play in the COVID-19 situation after the pandemic. Spiritual perspectives may turn the lives of people into a deeply engaged social practice. This seminar tends to discuss and explore perspectives from Nigeria embracing spiritual life and its tie to social responsibility in curing the process of human suffering. Nigeria, which is one of the largest, most populated, and richest African countries, being an emerging economy, is also suffering from a deep inequality and corruption. However, the country enjoys a wide variety of spiritual perspectives, which can be found, for example, in Igbo, Yoruba, Fula, Hausa, and other cultures.<ul><li>How to define a common ground for the response of spiritual perspectives in addressing the urgency of the COVID-19 condition?</li><li>How does the spirituality of Africans affect human lives in times of hardship and crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic?</li><li>Given the ethical appeal of African spirituality, and specifically the Igbo and Yoruba perceptions of life, could their spiritual tradition transform the perception of the meaning of life in the process of the country’s modernization?</li><li>How can spiritual views comply with the imperatives of modern transformation in general?</li><li>What specific messages could an ethics of spirituality share with the world?</li></ul>This topic and exemplary questions raised will be discussed by our participants who are experts in Ethics, spirituality, politics, social activism, and politics. This seminar format webinar will be held via a zoom teleconference and will be broadcasted live on our social media channels. It will also be recorded for offline media.We encourage our speakers to submit a short paper of 1500-2500 words to be published on the website of APGC. The collected paper will also be published in a public e-book by APGC.Date: Friday, July 17th, 2020Time: 13h00 East Canada and the US, 20h20 Central Europ, and 17h00 in NigeriaRegistration and Participation: Free of chargeThe PanelistsDr. Aderemi Oladele specialises in international development policy, Africa’s geopolitics, governance and public sector management. He works as a Senior Research Officer at the Permanent Delegation of Nigeria to UNESCO in Paris. His research interests are in Africa’s geopolitics and political economy; sustainable development; results culture in international development management; and the linkages between internationally development policy, national and local development.Aderemi is the Founder and Lead Analyst at 3psmars International, a nonprofitthink tank focused on capacity building and knowledge management for development effectiveness, with special focus on Africa.Dr. Stanley Uche Anozie teaches at Indiana University Kokomo, Indiana. He is also an adjunct professor at University of Indianapolis, Indiana. In 2007, he was awarded a Master’s Scholarship from SSHRC and a Doctoral Fellowship from Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Canada) for 2011-2012. Anozie is Vice-President APGC (ap-gc.net). He has published extensively, among them is the 2020 Hans-Georg Gadamer and African Hermeneutic Philosophy. Anozie’s areas of research include Western Philosophy, African Philosophy and Religions, Africana Studies, Applied Ethics, Hermeneutics, Continental Philosophy, Hermeneutic of Political Belongingness, Social and Political Philosophy.Dr. Ikechukwu Anthony Kanu is a Professor of African Religion and Cultural Studies. He is currently the Rector of Villanova Polytechnic, Imesi Ile, Osun State and a Visiting Professor to the University of Jos, Plateau State and the Augustinian Institute, Makurdi. He is a member of the Governing Council of Veritas University Abuja, Nigeria; the Global President of the World Cultural Studies Research Association (WCSRA) based in India and the President of the Association for the Promotion of African Studies (APAS). Kanu is the Editor-in-Chief of IGWEBUIKE: An African Journal of Arts and Humanities (IAAJAH); Journal of African Studies and Sustainable Development (JASSD); Villanova Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences and AMAMIHE: Journal of Applied Philosophy.Dr. Mahmoud Masaeli is a Canadian Iranian political philosopher, ethicist, spiritualist, poet, and a global think tank leader. His area of research interest includes Global Ethics, Global Justice, Hermeneutics of Selfhood, Human Rights, Human Development, and universal spirituality. Mahmoud is the Founder and Executive Director of APGC (ap-gc.net). Mahmoud has published extensively in global ethics, global development, spirituality and ethics of globality. He also a visiting professor at Ottawa University. He will chair and speak in this seminar.<a href="https://ap-gc.net/events/" target="_blank">Read more on APGC Website</a>&nbsp;

Rights: Can view and download License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike LicenseAPGC (Alternative Perspectives and Global Concern) 7th International Seminar on Africa’s Spiritual Response to Human Suffering: Nigeria and COVID-19 Topic: AFrica’s Spiritual response to Human Suffering Time: Jul 17, 2020 01:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)<h3>Join Zoom Meeting</h3><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87018593442?pwd=N3pJSkdkTDVtSkE5bnE5U3o3QTk0UT09" target="_blank">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87018593442?pwd=N3pJSkdkTDVtSkE5bnE5U3o3QTk0UT09</a> Meeting ID: 870 1859 3442 Password: 240776

Rights: Can view and download License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike LicenseInternational Seminar of Racism, Equality, and Love of the Community in the Time of Crisis Join us for this Seminar tomorrow 31st July 2020 at 3pm (in Paris); 2pm (in Nigeria); and 9am (in East Canada and the USA).Zoom information: <a href="https://lnkd.in/g73ueCn" target="_blank">https://lnkd.in/g73ueCn</a> Meeting ID: 861 5179 5725 Passcode: 218384

Celebrating Womanhood: Make it Happen!There is cause to celebrate womanhood. The UN has declared March 8th, the International Women’s Day. A day set aside to recognize women all over the world. Whilst celebrating womanhood and discussing issues bordering on women and their achievements; there are still emerging issues that threatens opportunities available to women in work forces, politics and education etc. However, over the years there have been tremendous steps to empower women but the progress has been very slow in achieving the desired status for women.Women would continue to make impact in the homes and the society. We’ve had women who have had their say. As William Ross Wallace put it, many hands that rocked the cradle has been able to rule the world, one way or the other. And they still are. Wondering how I can celebrate this Year’s women’s Day? As we celebrate, let’s ask ourselves the question, how can we make life better for the women folk? Both male a female, we have a duty to stop stereotyping and allowing women their proper stay in society.Happy Women’s Day!Titi Oladele.

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