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Conference Announcement Theme: Legacies of Colonialism and Philosophies of Resistance Type: 21st Annual Philosophy Conference Institution: Philosophy Graduate Student Union, Villanova University Location: Villanova, PA (USA) Date: 14.–15.4.2016 __________________________________________________ The Philosophy Graduate Student Union (PGSU) at Villanova University is proud to present the 21st Annual Philosophy Conference on April 14th and 15th, 2016. This year’s conference is entitled: Legacies of Colonialism & Philosophies of Resistance. Millions throughout the world continue to struggle with the consequences of our colonial histories, both in the "first" and "third" worlds. Decolonization is thus an ongoing process that currently has no end in sight, and it implicates intellectuals, politicians, and citizens in all parts of the world. The conference seeks to think collectively about the remnants of colonialism's past and the possibility for a decolonized future. Tentative Conference Schedule Thursday, April 14th, 2016 9:30- 11:30 Keynote Enrique Dussel, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)/Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) 11:30-1:00 Lunch Break 1:00-2:00 Panel 1 (Undergraduate) 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 Panel 2 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 Panel 3 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 10:30-11:30 Panel 4 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 Panel 5 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 Panel 6 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” 3:45-4:45 Book Panel Dan Wood, Villanova University George Ciccariello-Maher, Drexel University 5:00-6:30 Keynote Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Rutgers University: “Coloniality Must Fall: Fanonian Meditations on Decolonizing Knowledge and the University” Any questions or concerns can be sent to: villanovaphilc...@gmail.com You can find more information here: https://villanovaphilconference2016.wordpress.com Contact: Luis Alberto Salazar, Graduate Assistant Philosophy Department Villlanova University 800 E. Lancaster Avenue Villanova, PA 19085 USA Email: villanovaphilc...@gmail.com Web: https://villanovaphilconference2016.wordpress.com __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org __________________________________________________
