REGISTRATION
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ACCESSIBILITY
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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
MARIANA ORTEGA
Pennsylvania State University
Mariana Ortega is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy; Women's, Gender, and Sexualities; and Latina/o Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her main areas of research and interest are Women of Color Feminisms, in particular Latina/x Feminisms, Phenomenology, Critical Philosophy of Race, and Aesthetics. Her research focuses on questions of self, identity, as well as visual representations of race, gender, and sexuality. She is author of In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self (SUNY, 2016) and she is co-editor with Andrea Pitts and José Medina of Theories of the Flesh, Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation and Resistance (OUP 2020), and with Linda Martín-Alcoff of Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader (SUNY, 2009). She is director of the Latina/x Feminisms Roundtable (formerly the Roundtable on Latina Feminism).
MANUEL VARGAS
University of California San Diego
Manuel Vargas is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Building Better Beings: A Theory of Moral Responsibility (OUP, 2013), which won the American Philosophical Association's Book Prize in 2015. He is co-author of Four Views on Free Will (Blackwell, 2007). With John Doris, he edited the Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology (2022) and with Gideon Yaffe, he edited Rational and Social Agency: The Philosophy of Michael Bratman (OUP, 2014). He is also the author of articles about, among other things, Sor Juana, jurisprudence, free will, Latinx philosophy, motivated reasoning, moral responsibility, philosophy of race, and the undead. He is currently writing a book on the history of Mexican philosophy.
OTHER SPEAKERS
ERIC BAYRUNS GARCÍA
Fellow-in-Residence, Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University
Assistant Professor, McMaster University
Eric Bayruns García is a Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard University’s Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at and he is an assistant professor in McMaster University’s department of philosophy. He was an assistant professor in California State University, San Bernardino’s philosophy department.
He specializes in philosophy of race, epistemology and Latin American philosophy. In his work, he explains how racial injustice in the US and colonialism in the Americas relate to epistemic phenomena such as ignorance and understanding, ethical phenomena such as blame, linguistic phenomena such as race terms’ meaning and the metaphysical nature of race itself.
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY / APRIL 14
10:00 -10:50
Julio C. Covarrubias-Cabeza, "Racial Labor, Immigrant Health Disparities, and Affective Injustice"
11:00 - 11:50
Erika Grimm, "Foreign Natives/Native Foreigners: Language, Citizenship, and the Racialization of Mexicans in the U.S."
13:00 - 13:50
Sergio Gallegos-Ordorica, "The uses of anger in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Autodefensa Espiritual"
14:00 - 14:50
Noell Birondo, "Aztec Philosophy, Europe, and Decoloniality"
15:00 - 15:50
Patricia Cipollitti Rodríguez, "The Meaning, Dangers, and Critical Potential of “Exteriority” for Decolonial Investigations"
16:30 - 18:00
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED DUE TO ILLNESS
Manuel Vargas, "Reconsidering Latinx Philosophy"
SATURDAY / APRIL 15
10:00 - 12:00
Eric Bayruns García, Adam Burgos, and Edgar Valdez, "Panel: Afro-Latinx Identity, Puerto Rican Resistance and Dominican Philosophy"
13:00 - 13:50
Jeta Mulaj, "World-travelling to the Servant's Quarters: The Limits of Lugones' Decolonial Feminism"
14:00 - 14:50
Karina Ortiz Villa, "La Facultad: Towards an Active Agency and Bodily Epistemology"
15:00 - 15:50
Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez, "Anticolonial Aesthetics: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui and Third Cinema"
16:30 - 18:00
Mariana Ortega, "Anzaldúa's Conocimiento as Affective Mapping: A Critical Phenomenological Approach"
SPONSORS
TEMPLE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS
CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AT TEMPLE UNIVERSITY
GREATER PHILADELPHIA PHILOSOPHY CONSORTIUM
AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION
CONTACT
This conference is organized by César Cabezas and Raciel Cuevas. We hope you are able to attend! If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out.