Summit Video
A Brief Bio
Dr. Hanétha Vété-Congolo is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and an affiliate in Africana studies program, the Latin American Studies Program and the Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Program at Bowdoin College. She was President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (CPA) from 2019 to 2023.
Websites, Media, Resources
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Hanetha-Vete-Congolo-2080271795
https://www.bowdoin.edu/profiles/faculty/mvete/index.html
Member Bio — Hanétha Vété-Congolo
The Global Existential Summit 
I have been waiting for something like this to surface here in the UK ever since I did my first degree in history, philosophy and history of ideas 40yrs ago! I have been unable, so far, for all sorts of reasons, to move forward with educating myself about women and slavery in the Caribbean context, in the the way that Hanetha Vete-Congolo has so beautifully articulated. It is my her/history too.
She is absolutely right about trying to create a paradigm for the particular existential experiences of the lives, thinking and be-ing/being of slaves in the Caribbean (mainly?) and their descendants, so that the groundedness of this difficult and painstaking work can be built on. It is a portal in which I am very interested to enter, even in this late stage of my life, and as I do not speak nor read French, wonder if her new book could be translated into English. If this proves not possible in the foreseeable future, I will have to obtain it in French and ask my daughter to help me with it. I would definitely like to ask Natalie to invite Hanetha to come back and generously share what she has written and found/learnt.
Thank you both.
Fenella
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What an insightful conversation about the de-existentialisation that occurred in the system of slavery and its impact on enslaved Africans. I continue to be saddened by the systems that exist in European countries which hide the truth about slavery from the school curriculum.
I am in awe of your research Dr Vete-Congolo and hope that I can one day read it in English. Thanks for such truly remarkable insights on your work so far.
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