BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T150403Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20120202T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20120203T170000 SUMMARY:Colloquium on Latin American Thought\, Culture\, and History UID:20240329T150404Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6f97df9687-7c6q9 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:San Marcos\, United States DESCRIPTION:
February 2nd\, 2012
9:30 am &ndash\; 12:20 pm &\; 2:00 pm &ndash\; 4:50 pm\, lectures and discussion
February 3rd\, 2012
10:00 am &ndash\; 12:00 pm\, round table discussion on the role of the \;university in the Americas
Speakers
James Cane-Carrasco (University of Oklahoma)
&ldquo\;The Spirit of Science and the Science of Spirits: Positivism and the \;Afterlife in fin-de-siè\;cle Argentina.&rdquo\;
James Maffie (University of Maryland)
&ldquo\;Weaving the Aztec Cosmos: The Metaphysics of the Fifth Age.&rdquo\;
Amy A. Oliver (American University)
&ldquo\;Feminist Philosophy in Latin America: Sor Juana Iné\;s de la Cruz to \;Carlos Vaz Ferreira.&rdquo\;
Anayra Santory Jorge (University of Puerto Rico)
&ldquo\;&lsquo\;Not of this World&rsquo\;: The Uncomfortable Relation of Philosophy and the \;Present&rdquo\;
Sponsored by the Department of Philosophy\, the Department of History\, \;the Department of English\, the Center for Multicultural and Gender \;Studies\, the College of Liberal Arts\, the NEH Distinguished Teaching \;Professorship in the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the \;Humanities and the Wittliff Collections.