Assistant Professor of Philosophy Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse had the essay, “An Ode to the Domestics, the Minors of Apartheid, My Grandmother Among Them,” published on the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s blog, Caliban’s Readings. It can be read here. The piece is a philosophical and personal meditation on Black women who worked as domestics under Apartheid, with a special focus on ka’Nobuhlaluse’s maternal grandmother. It explores how bureaucracy, racial capitalism, and patriarchal law rendered these women “minors,” even as their labour sustained families, homes, and the nation. Drawing on Black feminist and Africana philosophy, as well as autobiographical writing, ka’Nobuhlaluse thinks through archives not only as formal institutions but as living, intergenerational memory carried in bodies, stories, and ordinary objects. ka’Nobuhlaluse wrote this essay while teaching an FYS on Apartheid.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse was invited to comment on Hannah Bacon’s paper, “A Critical Phenomenology of Carceral Time,” presented at the 63rd annual Society for Phenomenology Existential Philosophy Conference. This year’s conference was held online over two weekends, October 17–18 and 24–25.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse presented a paper titled “Towards a Black Consciousness like Black Feminist praxis” at the 43rd Annual Spindel Conference, hosted by the Philosophy Department at the University of Memphis from September 25-27. The conference proceedings will be published in a special issue of the Southern Journal of Philosophy.

During the summer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse participated in a workshop on “African Voices in Global Intellectual History” in Konstanz, Germany from June 23 – 25. They presented their working chapter, which is a commentary on one of Mamphela Ramphele’s essays. The workshop aims to publish contributions into a book anthology that will feature African figures of the 19th and 20th centuries in annotated original documents. The reader aims to contribute to bringing African voices into the global historical perspective and thus stimulate new research.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse presented a paper titled “Living In Contemporarity: Towards an afro-fem ethic of sufficiency” and participated in a closed workshop on MJ Alexander’s book Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred  at the philoSOPHIA Conference held at Texas A&M University in College Station on April 10.