Prof Rory du Plessis and Prof Benda Hofmeyr

Prof Rory du Plessis

Rory du Plessis has been a full-time lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria since 2011. He is pursuing a PhD with the Division of Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health (UP). In 2014 he was awarded a pre-doc fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany. His research interests include digital and medical humanities with a strong focus on visual methodologies.

Prof Benda Hofmeyr

Benda Hofmeyr is currently affiliated to the Department of Philosophy, University of Pretoria, South Africa. She lived and worked in the Netherlands while completing her doctoral studies and postdoctoral research. She still maintains strong collaborative ties with the Radboud University Nijmegen where she obtained her doctoral degree in Philosophy on the work of Foucault and Levinas. Her research interests fall within the broad ambit of contemorary Continental philosophy (especially thinkers following in the wake of Heidegger with emphasis  on post-structuralism and phenomenology) with an enduring facination for the inextricable entanglement of the ethical and the political. At present, she is reflecting on the entanglement of European and non-Western, especially post-colonial African philosophy and the possibility of a dialogue across these divergent yet  fundamentally intertwined traditions of thought

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