The 2nd Latinx Philosophy Conference

The Latinx Philosophy Conference celebrates work by Latinx philosophers and philosophical work on issues of particular relevance to Latinx people.  The conference aims to bring together philosophers working on a wide variety of topics, from a wide variety of philosophical traditions.  The First Latinx Philosophy Conference was organized by graduate students at Columbia University in 2016 and was a great success.  We look to build on that success and to continue to support and connect this vibrant philosophical community.  Here is the schedule for the 2017 Conference:

Thursday, April 27

9:00 – 9:45am                Breakfast

9:45 – 10:00am              Welcoming Remarks

10:00 – 10:55am          Francisco Gallegos (Georgetown), “The Phenomenology of Collective Moods”

                                    Comments by Gabriela Veronelli (SUNY Binghamton)

11:00 – 11:55am           José Jorge Mendoza (UMass Lowell), “Latinx and the Future of Whiteness in American Democracy”

                                    Comments by Eric Bayruns Garcia (CUNY)

12:00 – 1:00pm             Lunch

1:00 – 1:55pm              Carla Merino-Rajme (UNC Chapel Hill) & Nilanjan Das (UNC Chapel Hill), “Knowledge Defeat and Self-Locating Belief”

                                    Comments by Juan Piñeros Glasscock (Yale)

2:00 – 2:55pm               Jesús Luzardo (Fordham), “Latinidad, Multiplicity, and the Time of Identification”

                                    Comments by Nelson Maldonado-Torres (Rutgers)

3:00 – 4:30pm               Break

4:30 – 5:15pm               Discussion of Latinx Philosophy and Latinx Philosophers

5:30 – 7:00pm               Keynote Address: Ernest Sosa (Rutgers), “How Suspension Makes Trouble in Epistemology”

7:15pm                         Dinner

Friday, April 28

9:00 – 9:30am               Breakfast

9:30 – 10:25am             William Jaworski (Fordham), “Putnam’s Aristotelian Dream”

                                    Comments by Martín Abreu Zavaleta (NYU)

10:30am – 12:00pm       Keynote Address: Andrea Pitts (UNC Charlotte), “Sanctuaries Then and Now: Historical Memory and the Prison-Industrial-Military Complex”

12:00 – 1:00pm             Lunch

1:00 – 1:55pm               César Cabezas (Columbia), “On the Connection Between Racist Ideology and Institutional Racism”

                                    Comments by Teresa Bruno (Syracuse)

2:00 – 2:55pm               Javiera Perez-Gomez (Maryland), “Civic Alienation: (Moral) Emotion or (Moral) Mood?”

                                    Comments by Debora Puac (CUNY)

3:00 – 3:30pm               Break

3:30 – 5:00pm               Keynote Address: Carlos Alberto Sánchez (San Jose State), “Lessons from a Vital Crisis: Mexican Philosophy Historicism para todos”

5:30 – 6:30pm               Reception

6:30pm                         Dinner