Legacies of Colonialism and Philosophies of Resistance

21st Annual Philosophy Conference

Sponsored by the Philosophy Graduate Student Union

“Legacies of Colonialism and Philosophies of Resistance”

Villanova University

April 14-15, 2016

Thursday, April 14th, 2016

Location

Time

Event

Mendel 101

9:30- 11:30

Enrique Dussel, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)/ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

11:30-1:00

Lunch Break

West Lounge-

Duugherty Hall

1:00-2:00

Undergraduate Panel:

Benjamin Davis, University of North Dakota: "The Solidarity of Attention: Weil, Gutiérrez, Cardenal, and the Poetics of Liberation."

Alicia Zamora, Harvard College: “Revisionist Traditions: Problematizing Representations of Indigeneity in Contemporary Chicana Literature.”

2:15-3:15

Rafael Vizcaíno, Rutgers University: “Benjamin’s Historical Materialist Messianism from the Underside of Modernity.”

Nikolay Karkov, SUNY Cortland:  “On Women, Animals, and Becoming: Deleuze and Guattari and Racialised Gender.”

3:30-5:00

Adebayo Ogungbure, Texas A&M: “Linda Alcoff’s Epistemological Reconstruction and the Question of Normativity.”

Sunyoung Kim & Keunchang Oh, Purdue University: “Understanding of ‘Modernity’ in Postcolonial Studies of South Asia and Latin America.”

Lina Álvarez, Université Catholique de Louvain: “From Wilhelm Reich’s Materialist Psychology to Frantz Fanon’s Sociogeny: Ideology and the (re)production of Coloniality.”

Friday, April 15th, 2016

West Lounge

Dougherty Hall

10:30-11:30

Joe Parker, Pitzer College: “Decolonizing Democracy: Competing Forms of Anti-Eurocentrism in the Politics of Latin American Subaltern Self-governance.”

René Carrasco, Harvard University: “On the Zapatista Case: Rethinking Indigenous Autonomy as a Response to a Colonial Legacy.”

11:30-1:00

Lunch Break

1:00-2:00

Raquel Flecha Vega: “Colonial Legacies and Nationalism in Visual Culture: The Case of the First Church of the Americas.”

Jesus Luzardo,Fordham University: “Creolizing Nostalgia: On the Intersections Between Glissant and Cassin.”

2:10-3:10

Anna Malavisi, Michigan State University: “Philosophies of Resistance and the Pursuit of Global Development.”

Anahí Wiedenbrug, London School of Economics: “Dependency Reconsidered_Exorbitant Privilege, Original Sin and the Asymmetries in the Sovereign Debt and Credit Regime.”

Bartley 1001

3:45-4:45

Book Panel:

Dan Wood, Villanova University

George Ciccariello-Maher, Drexel University

5:00-6:30

Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rutgers University