CURRICULUM VITAE. Doctorat d état, Philosophie et la littérature comparée, Université de Yaoundé, 1993.

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1 Charley.E.Mejame CURRICULUM VITAE Work Address Department of Humanities Michigan Technological University Walker Arts and Humanities Center Townsend Drive Houghton, Michigan AOS: 19th and continental philosophy (especially Kant, Schopenhauer, and Hegel); 20 th century French and German continental philosophy (Existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, deconstruction, structuralism and post structuralism); Metaphysics; African philosophy; Ancient Greek philosophy; Comparative philosophy; Ethics; political philosophy; philosophy of technology. AOC: Logic; metaphysics; philosophy of science; epistemology; Ethics ; Early modern and modern philosophy; history of world philosophy; aesthetics; critical thinking; history of world philosophies; interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies in philosophy; Aristotle; Augustine, Bioethics; Environmental ethics, epistemology, business ethics, computer ethics, Engineering ethics, world religions, and Eastern philosophy. EDUCATION Doctorat d état, Philosophie et la littérature comparée, Université de Yaoundé, Doctorat de 3ème cycle, Philosophie et la littérature Comparée, Université de Yaoundé,

2 Diplôme d études Approfondies (DEA, postgraduate qualification which is a prerequisite for PhD candidates), Philosophie et la littérature comparée (Philosophy and comparative literature),, Université de Yaoundé-Cameroun, June Maîtrise ès Lettres françaises et comparées (postgraduate diploma), Université de Yaoundé-Cameroun, June, Licence ès lettres françaises et comparées, Université de Yaoundé-Cameroun, June Diplômes d études littéraires Générales (DELG), Université de Yaoundé- Cameroun, June,1983. DISSERTATION: La Problématique de la quintessence de la liberté dans Etre et Temps de Martin Heidegger Trans. The Problematic of the quintessence of Freedom in Heidegger s Being and Time Advisors: Ebenezer Njoh Mouelle, Université de Yaoundé, Marcien Towa, Université de Yaoundé AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND HONORS Rothermore American Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Associate Researcher (2009). Institute of International Education, Scholar Rescue Fund Award: Central European University Senior Fellowship: September Jan.2008 Rothermore American Institute, University of Oxford, and Research Fellowship: 2006 Johann Guttenburg Universität, Mainz Fellowship, Kant Forchungstelle Fellowship, Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Classics Fellowship:

3 Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris Fellowship, University of Thessaloniki, Greece Greek award: University of Stellenbosch postdoctoral Fellowship award: Universite de Yaoundé, Chevalier de l ordre de la valeur (award in teaching excellence):1997. Université de Yaoundé, Mention très honorable (summa magna cum laude.trans.distiction):1993. Université de Yaoundé: Très honorable (summa magna cum laude.trans.distinction):1989. Université de Yaounde: Grande Distinction (Trans.Brit.First Class honors; Amer.summa Magna cum Laude):1987. Université de Yaoundé: Mention: Très Bien(Trans:Br.First Class honors, Amer.Summa Magna cum laude):1984. Université de Yaounde: mention:très Bien(Trans.Br.First Class honors,american.summa Magna cum laude):1983. RESEARCH EXPERIENCE Central European University Senior Fellowship: September Jan.2008 Heidegger and the problem of technology Johann Guttenberg Universität, Mainz Fellow, Schopenhauer, Schopenhauer Kant Forchungstelle Fellow, Johann Guttenberg Universität, Mainz Kant Albert Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Classics Fellowship:

4 Heidegger and the Pre-Socratics University of Stellenbosch The ultimate metaphysical principle and the tragic vision of man in Greek philosophy of Antiquity TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Michigan Technological University, Michigan, , visiting professor of philosophy. Taught courses in philosophy,, introduction to philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of religion, Engineering Ethics, World literature and special topics in philosophy at graduate level. University of Mary Washington: Visiting Professor of philosophy, Spring 2008 Taught courses in Continental philosophy (Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche).Taught courses in Francophone African philosophy and politics and religion. Developed discussion section syllabi. Graded and evaluated student work. Directed senior theses in relevant topics. Central European University, Budapest-Hungary: Teaching and Research Fellow in Western Philosophy, September 2007-January, Conducted independent and collaborative research. Organized and gave advanced Seminars in contemporary philosophy; gave a public lecture in (German and French) philosophy attended by senior students (Masters and PhD). University of Pretoria, South Africa: associate professor and researcher in Western Philosophy, African studies, French philosophy and history of ideas, Designed and taught undergraduate and graduate sections for history of ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, contemporary political philosophy; modern and contemporary philosophy; practical philosophical translation (Greek, Latin, German, Italian and English);ethical theory, applied ethics, philosophy of 4

5 technology, Epistemology, metaphysics, research project methodology, logic and argumentation, African philosophy and religions, history of world philosophy, Logic and critical thinking, interdisciplinary studies in philosophy. Developed syllabi, assigned readings, led discussion sections; supervised senior theses on appropriate topics. Held primary grading responsibilities; Conducted collaborative and independent research. External services: Contributed to the media, scientific circles, and communal groups. Internal services: Shared administrative duties, participated in activities of the departments of Philosophy, French, German, African studies, and Classics an Faculty, participated in committees, diverse group work, in relation to program studies University of Stellenbosch, South Africa: Postdoctoral Fellow in Ancient studies (Greek), Conducted independent and collaborative research in Greek philosophy and literature. Gave advanced lectures in Greek philosophy and literature. Universityé Omar Bongo, Libreville-Gabon: Associate Professor and researcher in Philosophy and the humanities: Designed and taught undergraduate and graduate philosophy (history of philosophy, ancient, modern and contemporary political philosophy; African and Eastern philosophy; interdisciplinary studies, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of technology, computer ethics, philosophy of science, ethics);intellectual and cultural history; history of ideas; history of world philosophy; logic and critical thinking; ethics(applied and theoretical ethics) French. Shared administrative duties; Developed discussion section syllabi., Graded and evaluated student work. Directed senior theses in relevant topics in 5

6 Philosophy, French and history of ideas. Conducted independent and collaborative research. External services: Contributed to the media, scientific circles, and communal groups. Internal services: Shared administrative duties, participated in activities of the departments of Philosophy, French, German, African studies, and Classics an Faculty, participated in committees, diverse group work, in relation to program studies Université de Douala-Cameroun: Maître de conference-(senior Lecturer) in Philosophy, humanities and African studies: Taught undergraduate and graduate Philosophy especially French and German philosophy, literature and language, introduction to ancient languages (Greek and Latin),philosophical Greek and Latin, introduction to the history of ideas, metaphysics, epistemology, medieval wisdom; African and Eastern philosophy; principles of logic; political philosophy; intellectual and cultural history; History of World Philosophy; philosophy of technology, Logic and critical thinking, Shared administrative duties. Taught at postgraduate levels history of ancient, Medieval Renaissance, modern and contemporary philosophy; Practical philosophical translation (Ancient Greek, Latin, English, German and Italian), supervised senior theses in appropriate topics. Supervised postgraduate theses (maîtrise, DEA, Doctorat and postdoctoral researchers) -External services: Contributed to the media, scientific circles, and communal groups. Internal services: Shared administrative duties, participated in activities of the departments of Philosophy. Also participated in committees, diverse group work, in relation to program studies. Université de Yaoundé: Charge de Cours (Assistant Professor) in Philosophy and other humanities:

7 Taught undergraduate and graduate philosophy (history of ancient, medieval, Renaissance, modern and contemporary philosophy), French and German philosophy; metaphysics, epistemology, political philosophy, ethics, hermeneutics, philosophy of technology,applied ethics, theory of ethics, German and French philosophy, history of ideas, history of world philosophy, logic and critical thinking. Supervised postgraduate theses (Maitrise, DEA, and Doctorat) and postdoctoral research work. External services: Contributed to the media, scientific circles, and communal groups. Internal services: Shared administrative duties, participated in activities of the departments of Philosophy, history of world philosophy, ethics, logic and critical thinking, French, German, African studies, and Classics and Faculty, participated in committees, diverse group work, in relation to program studies. Ecole Normale Supérieure de Yaoundé-Yaoundé-Cameroun (Higher Teachers Training College): Taught at undergraduate and graduate levels: comparative literature (classics and French), introduction to philosophy, logic, philosophy and other disciplines, interdisciplinary studies and philosophy of education. Directed students theses on appropriate topics, evaluated and graded students work. Shared administrative duties. Université de Yaoundé teaching assistantship in Philosophy, classics and comparative literature: Taught both undergraduate and graduate levels philosophy courses : philosophy (history of philosophy), French and German philosophy; metaphysics; epistemology; medieval wisdom; French and Classics; political philosophy; literary theory; ethics and applied ethics; Principles of logic; history of ideas. 7

8 Developed discussion section syllabi. Graded and evaluated student work. PUBLICATIONS LIST Articles in Refereed journals Mejame, in Forum Philosophicum.International journal for Philosophy. The Technological problematic and the realms of salvation in Heidegger s philosophy.(fall 2009).Vol14.Pp Mejame. In Philosophy, Culture, and Traditions. Critique linguistique de l ontologie bantoue de Tempels (2008).Journal of the world Union of Catholic philosophical societies, Canada.Vol.4.Pp Annale de la faculté des lettres et sciences humaines. La dualité et non dualité dans la pensée grecque (2006),Vol. 31,Pp.1-14 Annale de La faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines. Le Stoïcisme Samuel Beckett.(2005),vol 30,p Revue des lettres modernes. Camus : L absurde sur le mouvement de Balancier (2004) vol 21. Pp Annales de la faculté des lettres et sciences humaines. La Problématique métaphysique dans la pensée de Martin Heidegger (2003).Vol.29.Pp Annales de la faculte des lettres et sciences humaines. If individual animal ethics is not based on anthropomorphism, then-----? (2004), Vol Annale de la faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines. Le langage et les choses dans l ontologie classique.(2002).vol.27.pp Annales de la Faculté des lettres et Sciences humaines. Insight into the nature of Being in Pre-Socratic Philosophy (2001).Vol.26.Pp Annales de la Faculté des lettres et sciences humaine. Le dimorphisme de la métaphysique classique comme onto-théologie (2000).Vol.25.Pp Annale de la Faculté des arts, lettres et sciences humaines. Authenticity in Heidegger and Sartre : a dialectical contrast,(1999).vol.24.pp

9 Revue des lettres modernes. Esthétique de la poésie.(2003).vol.20.pp Revue culturelle Camerounaise-Cameroun cultural review. Evaluating Cameroon art: the problem of criteria (2003), Vol.28.Pp Revue Culturelle Camerounaise-Cameroon Cultural review. On Epie Ngome s what God has put asunder (2002).Vol.27.Pp Revue Culturelle Camerounaise-Cameroon cultural review. La question de la liberté politique au Cameroun.(2001).Vol.26.Pp Revue Culturelle camerounaise. Le francais des romanciers Camerounais (2000).Vol.25.Pp Revue Culturelle camerounaise-cameroun cultural review. La representation de la nature dans la pensée traditionelle.(1999).pp BOOKS. L Existentialisme ou philosophie de la mort de Dieu (2005) Edition Clé.Pp 350. La Pensée Négro-africaine Chez Marcien Towa.(2003).Editions Clé.Pp280 La metaphysique et le langage(2001).ed.clé Nietzsche et André Malraux.(2000).Ed.Clé. La problématique de la recherche scientifique en Afrique.(1999).Ed.Clé.Pp.250. L Urgence de la pensée:le statut du pouvoir politique en Afrique(1996).Ed.Clé.Pp.350. La paix perpetuelle chez Kant,(1994).Ed.Clé.pp.380. PAPERS AND LECTURES 9

10 The personal and the impersonal in Allen Ginsberg poetic artistry, Rutherford American Institute, University of Oxford, UK.March, The severance between education and Being in Michel Henry s philosophy, Annual conference in Philosophy, University of West Indies. Barbados, February, The technological problematic and the realms of salvation in Heidegger and Michel Henry s Philosophy, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. December The urgency of thought; the ethical dilemma of our respectful encounter with others: a space for discourse between Africa and the West, the university of West Indies, Cave-hill campus, annual symposium,2006. The sapential function and transmission of knowledge in traditional African society, UNESCO African philosophy conference in the 21th century, University of South Africa, The pathetic search for Being in Heidegger s meditation, University of Pretoria lecture, UP.,2005. The Search for God in Nietzsche and Albert Camus, University of South Africa lecture, UNISA., The two philosophers in Kant s philosophy, University of South Africa lecture, Living Earth or dead Nature in traditional Greek and modern representations of the world, University of Stellenbosch lecture in Greek studies, December, WORK IN PROGRESS. 1. The deconstruction and restoration of metaphysics: Bergson and Heidegger 2. Philosophy, life and animality in contemporary French philosophy 10

11 3. Archaeology and deconstruction of the subject from ancient to contemporary French philosophy 5 Derrida and the concept of vulnerability. Book projects: 1. Homo Sapiens technologicus, contemporary philosophy of technology, philosophy of modern wisdom. 2.The restoration and deconstruction of metaphysics: Bergson and Heidegger. 3.Philosophical apartheid: the betrayal of the Greek philosophical project. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Introduction to philosophy, logic, history of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, aesthetics, hermeneutics; French Continental philosophy, history of world philosophy; Ethics( history of ethics,, health ethics, engineering ethics, computer ethics, practical ethics, Bioethics, contemporary ethical problems);philosophy and literature; philosophy of religion; German continental philosophy; political philosophy; metaphysics; epistemology, history of philosophy(ancient, medieval, renaissance, modern and contemporary); European philosophy; African philosophy and Religions ; French, comparative literature; history of ideas; interdisciplinary studies, Philosophical Greek and Latin and modern philosophy. PROFESSIONAL TRAINING. Central European University training on teaching methodology, November, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, workshop on teaching at the university and colleges,2001. University of South African training on online teaching technologies,

12 University of Pretoria,Pretoria,South Africa on training on the use of new technologies including blocs, new research tools, electronic databases, new ways of receiving and treating information, 2003; 2004;2006. LANGUAGES French: Native Speaker. English: Fluent German: Fluent Italian: Fluent. Ancient and Modern Greek: fluent. Portugues: Fluent Latin: excellent. Greek: excellent MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES American Philosophical Association, APA., USA Society for phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), USA European association for comparative literature. International Society of Philosophers,UK Council research in Values and Philosophy Association Africaine des philosophes. Association camerounaise de professeurs de francais. ACADEMIC SERVICE. 12

13 Served as member of search committee at the University of Pretoria, Gave talks on the necessity of collaborative teaching at the University of Douala, and served as member of French and Philosophy search committees,1999. Gave talks on the necessity of teachers to teach students to value cultural differences, and served as member of French, Philosophy and German search committees,