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Thursday, 5 March 2020

11:00am-4:00pm

Helen Tartar Book Exhibit

Registration

1:00pm-2:40pm

Concurrent Session I

Peter Hare Room

Sor Juana Room

Gloria Anzaldúa Room

John J. McDermott Room

Session I.A. Panel Discussion: Internet Platforms and the Affordances of Democracy

"Internet Black Misandry and the Crisis of Public Expertise"
Amir Jaima, Texas A&M University

"Reddit as Pseudo-Civic Platform: A Case Study of r/SmallDickProblems"
Allison L. Rowland, St. Lawrence University

"Truth and Discursive Activism: The Promise and Perils of Hashtag Feminism"
Jennifer Hansen, St. Lawrence Universit

Internet Platforms and The Affordances of DemocracyAllison Rowland, St. Lawrence University; Amir Jaima, Texas A&M University; Jennifer Hansen, Emory University; Amber Carlson, Vanderbilt University

Session I.B. Author Meets Critics: Ward, Peirce, and ReligionSession Chair: Aaron Pratt Shepherd, University of Massachusetts LowellWard, Peirce and ReligionMichael Raposa, Lehigh University; Benjamin Chicka, Curry College; Dwayne Tunstall, Grand Valley State University

Session I.C. Discussion Papers: The Philosophy of Gloria Anzaldúa: Mexican Sources and Inter-American ImaginationsSession Chair: Cristine de la Luna, Iliff School of TheologyLa Mexicana En La Chicana: The Mexican Sources of Anzaldúa’s Inter-American PhilosophyMariana Alessandri, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Alexander Stehn, University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyDiscussant: Cristine de la Luna, Iliff School of TheologyGloria Anzaldúa, Hybrid History, and The American ImaginationTadd Ruetenik, St. Ambrose UniversityDiscussant: Cristine de la Luna, Iliff School of Theology

Session I.D. Traditional Papers: Decolonial and Deweyan Responses to Ecological CrisesSession Chair: Mario Teodoro Ramírez Cobián, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de HidalgoEnvironmental Crisis and Aesthetic Experience: Dewey and The Vital Signs of CultureBethany Henning, Xavier UniversityDiscussant: Lisa Heldke, Gustavus Adolphus CollegeEcocide Is Genocide: Decolonizing The Definition of GenocideLauren Eichler, Old Dominion UniversityDiscussant: Lisa Heldke, Gustavus Adolphus College

2:40pm-3:00pm

Refreshment Break

3:00pm-4:40pm

Concurrent Session II

Peter Hare Room

Beth Singer Room

Sor Juana Room

John J. McDermott Room

Gloria Anzaldúa Room

Session II.A. Panel Discussion: Inter-American Theology: Reflections on Violence, Insurgency, and Revolutionary Epistemologies Across Continents

"Revolutionary Violence and Insurrectionist Theology Across the Americas" -- Aaron Shepherd, University of Massachusetts Lowell

"The Time is Now – An Insurgent Theology Subversive of Violence Against Women" -- Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Boston College

"'A Naughty Bee with a Different Flavor of Honey': Ivone Gebara, Ecofeminism, and Pragmatism" -- Christopher Tirres, DePaul University

Inter-American Theology: Reflections On Violence, Insurgency, and Revolutionary Epistemologies Across ContinentsAaron Pratt Shepherd, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Nancy Pineda-Madrid, Boston College; Christopher Tirres, DePaul University

Session II.B. Discussion Papers: Rortian Realism and Jamesian RationalismSession Chair: Katie Terezakis, Rochester Institute of TechnologyRorty'S Peircean RealismChris Voparil, Union Institute & UniversityDiscussant: Katie Terezakis, Rochester Institute of TechnologyJames'S Radical RationalismThomas Burke, University of South CarolinaDiscussant: Katie Terezakis, Rochester Institute of Technology

Session II.C. Traditional papers: Inter-American Perspectives on Mysticism and ExistentialismSession Chair: Dwayne Tunstall, Grand Valley State UniversityThe Evolutionary Existentialism of Emerson and PazRichard Gilmore, Concordia CollegeDiscussant: Dwayne Tunstall, Grand Valley State UniversityMysticism In Luis Villoro'S La Mezquita AzulKristian Cantens, Texas A&M University - College StationDiscussant: Dwayne Tunstall, Grand Valley State University

Session II.D. Public Philosophy Network: Animal Ethics for Invasives, Exotics, and PestsSession Chair: Nancy McHugh, Wittenberg University

"Pests and Pragmatism"
Erin McKenna, University of Oregon

"Pragmatism and Interpreting Invasive Species: The Case of Nutria in the City"
Joseph Tuminello, McNeese State University

"Netting Nemo: A Moral Ontology for the Scaled and Slimy"
Zachary Piso, University of Dayton

Session II.E. Latina/x Feminism RoundtableSession Chair: Andrea J. Pitts, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

Denise Meda Calderon (Texas A&M)
"Keeping Memory Alive: Re-membering through Days of the Dead Celebrations”

Gisela Reyes (Northwestern University, Chicago)
"Incomodamente In-Between: Rethinking Hometacitcs Through Mutiplicitous Selfhood"

5:00pm-7:00pm

Plenary I

"Indigenous Philosophy and Philosophy for Children from Chiapas" ("Los Pueblos Originarios y los Niños como Alternativas Filosóficas en Chiapas") (Chapel)

Raul Trejo Villalobos, Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas

Eugenio Echevarria, Centro Latinoamericano de Filosofía para Niños, A.C.

7:00pm-9:00pm

Reception (Patio)

Friday, 6 March 2020

8:00am-4:00pm

Helen Tartar Book Exhibit

Registration

9:00am-10:40am

Concurrent Session III

Sor Juana Room

Peter Hare Room

John J. McDermott Room

Gloria Anzaldúa Room

Session III.A. Author Meets Critics: "Jane Addams's Evolutionary Theorizing" by Marilyn FischerJane Addams'S Evolutionary Theorizing By Marilyn Fischer (author Meets Critics)Barbara Lowe, ST. John Fisher College; Judy Whipps, Grand Valley State University; Danielle Lake, Elon University; Scott Pratt, University of Oregon

Session III.C. Discussion Papers: Philosophies of Resistance and LiberationSession Chair: Mark Sanders, UNC CharlotteEnrique Dussel and Alain Locke: A Project In Black Histories and Inter-American Philosophy of LiberationDaniel Westbrook, Emory UniversityDiscussant: Mark Sanders, UNC CharlotteOn Plantation Politics: Citizenship and Antislavery Resistance In Douglass'S My Bondage and My FreedomPhilip Yaure, Columbia UniversityDiscussant: Mark Sanders, UNC Charlotte

Session III.D. Traditional Papers: Pragmatism, Nationalism and WarSession Chair: Celia T. Bardwell-Jones, University of Hawaiʻi at HiloPhilosophy and The Mirror of Nationalism: Richard Rorty, The New Left, and The War On TerrorPatrick Anderson, Grand Valley State UniversityDiscussant: Celia T. Bardwell-Jones, University of Hawaiʻi at HiloPragmatism, Language Games, and The Philippine Drug WarTracy Llanera, University of ConnecticutDiscussant: Celia T. Bardwell-Jones, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo

Session III.E. Philosophy of Liberation and Pragmatist Attentions to Identity and Dharma

"The Concept of Origin in Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation"
Ricardo Friaz, University of Oregon

"Towards a Pragmatist Reconstruction of Dharma"
Apurva Parikh, University of South Carolina

"Latinx Identity in the United States: A Pragmatist Inquiry"
Héctor Herrera III, Princeton Seminary

10:40am-11:00am

Refreshment Break

11:00am-12:40pm

Plenary II: Coss Dialogue Lecture

“Against Discursive Colonialism: Intercultural Dialogues as a Path to Decolonize Feminist Anthropology” (Chapel)

Rosalva Aida Hernandez Castillo, Professor and Senior Researcher at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) in Mexico City

Introduced by Sergio Gallegos Ordorica, John Jay College

12:40pm-2:00pm

Dining Room		Second Floor Dining
Lunch at the Hacienda	Graduate Student Meeting	SAAP Board Meeting

2:00pm-3:40pm

Concurrent Session IV

Gloria Anzaldúa Room

John J. McDermott Room

Peter Hare Room

Beth Singer Room

Sor Juana Room

Session IV.A. Response to Castillo's Coss Dialogue LectureSession Chair: Danielle Lake, Elon University

Scott Pratt, University of Oregon

Marilyn Fischer, University of Dayton

Mariana Alessandri, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Session IV.B. Author Meets Critics: "Pragmatism, Objectivity, and Experience" by Stephen LevineSession Chair: Chris Voparil, Union Institute and UniversityPragmatism, Objectivity, and ExperienceSteven Levine, University of Massachusetts at Boston; David Hildebrand, University of Colorado at Denver; Alexis Dianda, Xavier University; Santiago Rey Salamanca, Universidad de los Andes

Session IV.C. Alain Locke Society

“Dubois, Locke, and Thurman: Great Questions and the African American Future”
Anthony Neal, Mississippi State University

“Critical Pragmatism, Between the Shaper and the Dragon”
Lee McBride, The College of Wooster

"When Theory and Practice Diverge: Locke on History and Race"
Jacoby Carter, Howard University

Session IV.D. Panel Discussion: Epistemic Decoloniality: Theory and Practice

“Lloyd Algernon Best: A Caribbean Decolonial Thinker” — Maurice L. Wade, Trinity College

“Toward a Decolonial Archival Praxis" — Christina Bleyer, Trinity College

“The Praxis of Decolonization and Decoloniality in Historical Context: Central America” — Dario Euraque, Trinity College

“Decolonizing Caribbean Feminism—in a Dialogue With Muslim Women Activists” — Janet L. Bauer, Trinity College

Epistemic Decoloniality: Theory and PracticeJanet Bauer, Trinity College; Christina Bleyer, Trinity College; Dario Euraque, Trinity College; Maurice Wade, Trinity College

Session IV.E. Traditional Papers: Virtues and Values in Inter-American PhilosophySession Chair: Bernie Cantens, Moravian CollegeMexican-American Philosophy and The Value Conferred By Concerns and IntuitionsRafael Perez, University of RochesterDiscussant: Bernie Cantens, Moravian CollegeThe Virtues of Mestizaje: Lessons From Las Casas For An Inter-American EthicsNoell Birondo, Wichita State University (Kansas)Discussant: Bernie Cantens, Moravian College

4:00pm-5:40pm

Concurrent Session V

Gloria Anzaldúa Room

Beth Singer Room

John J. McDermott Room

Peter Hare Room

Sor Juana Room

Session V.A. Traditional Papers: Multiplicitous Selves, La Malinche and Love in Latinx CommunitiesSession Chair: Patricia Huntington, Arizona State UniversityA/parecernos: Rethinking The Multiplicitous Self As “haunted” With Anzaldúa, La Malinche, and Other GhostsRebekah Sinclair, University of Oregon; Margaret Newton, University of OregonDiscussant: Nalliely Hernández, Universidad de GuadalajaraLove In Cultivating Latinx CommunitiesDaniel Campos, Brooklyn College, City University of New YorkDiscussant: Nalliely Hernández, Universidad de Guadalajara

Session V.B. Panel Discussion: Migration, Institutional Violence, and Reproducing the Carceral State

Andrea J. Pitts (University of North Carolina, Charlotte): “The Atlas of Our Skin and Bone and Blood”: Disability, Ablenationalism, and the Criminalization of Immigration”

Nora Berenstain (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) and Elena Ruíz (Michigan State University): “Structural and Administrative Violence at the US Mexico Settler Border”

Nancy McHugh (Wittenberg University): “Epistemic Deadspaces: Immigration, Politics, and Displacement”

Natalie Cisneros (Seattle University): “When Did Amnesty Become Unthinkable?: Immigration Reform and the Construction of Citizenship”

Migration, Institutional Violence, and Reproducing The Carceral StateAndrea Pitts, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; Nora Berenstain, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Elena Ruíz, Michigan State University; Nancy McHugh, Wittenberg University; Natalie Cisneros, Seattle University

Session V.C. Discussion Papers: Racial Blame and Wilderness as VocationSession Chair: Nate Jackson, Capital UniversityGrounding Racial Blame: Blood Money Benefits and White GuiltVictor AbundezGuerra, University of California, RiversideDiscussant: Nate Jackson, Capital UniversityRising Before Dawn: Wilderness As VocationDaniel Conway, Texas A&M UniversityDiscussant: Nate Jackson, Capital University

Session V.D. Society for Mexican Philosophy

Francisco Gallegos (Wake Forest University): "Shame in Mexican and Latinx Philosophy: Emilio Uranga and Mariana Ortega on shame and multiplicitous resistance"

Aurelia Valero Pie (UNAM): "Towards a Philosophical Entente: the Inter-American Conferences of Philosophy in the mid 20th century"

Sergio Gallegos Ordorica (John Jay College): "The 1926 Harris Foundation lectures of Manuel Gamio and José Vasconcelos as a model of Inter-American Philosophy"

Enrique Chavez Arvizo (John Jay College): "An Ideal Theory of Civil Disobedience for the Mexican Reality"

Session V. E. Red de Filosofas Mexicanas - Network of Women Philosophers of Mexico

Ángeles Eraña, IIF, UNAM, Mexico
"Network of Women Philosophers of Latin America - the Mexican Chapter"

Siobhan Guerrero Mc Manus, CEIICH, UNAM, Mexico
"Feminist Philosophies in Mexico"

Book Discussion on Las filósofas tienen la palabra (Women Philosophers' Turn To Speak)
Ángeles Eraña & Fanny del Río (author) UNAM, Mexico

6:00pm-10:00pm

Dinner on your own (San Miguel de Allende)

Saturday, 7 March 2020

8:00am-12:00pm

Helen Tartar Book Exhibit

9:00am-10:40am

Concurrent Session VI

Gloria Anzaldúa Room

John J. McDermott Room

Sor Juana Room

Peter Hare Room

Beth Singer Room

Session VI.A. Society for Mexican American PhilosophySession Chair: Alejandro Santana, University of Portland

Panel Discussion: Latin American/Latinx Philosophy for the Non-Specialist

Speakers:

Robert Sanchez, Mount Saint Mary’s University

Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Marquette University

José Haro, Borough of Manhattan Community College

Julio Corvarrubias, University of Washington

Session VI.B. Pragmatist Feminism, Hospitality and PedagogySession Chair: Erin Tarver, Oxford College of Emory UniversityTransformative Hospitality: A Pragmatist-Feminist Perspective On Radical Welcome As ResistanceTess Varner, Concordia CollegeDiscussant: Gail Presbey, University of Detroit MercyPedagogical Theory & Diversity In The U.s. and MexicoDorothy Rogers, Montclair State UniversityDiscussant: Gail Presbey, University of Detroit Mercy

Session VI.C. Asociación Filosófica de Mexico

Carlos Pereda (UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas), "William James and the 'sicarios' (Hitmen)"

Gergana Petrova (Universidad de Guanajuato), "Los deberes de la educación; la nueva barbarie y la emancipación"

Aureliano Ortega (Universidad de Guanajuato), "La filosofía en la actualidad mexicana"

Guillermo Hurtado (UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas), "Porque Vasconcelos Despreciaba a Dewey?"

Session VI.D. Traditional Papers: Inter-American Dialogues on Urban and Natural EnvironmentsSession Chair: Judith Green, Fordham UniversityWhy Pragmatist Participatory Planning Matters: A Call For Inter-American DialoguesDavid Woods, City of Stamford, CT & NYUDiscussant: Judith Green, Fordham UniversityThe Gavilan and The Gila: Aldo Leopold, Wilderness, and Two RiversDavid Henderson, Western Carolina UniversityDiscussant: Judith Green, Fordham University

Session VI.E. Book Session: Inter-American Imagination and Kwame Anthony Appiah's "The Lies that Bind"Inter-American Imagination and Kwame Anthony Appiah’s The Lies That BindSteven Fesmire, Radford University

10:40am-11:00am

Refreshment Break

11:00am-12:40pm

Concurrent Session VII

Sor Juana Room

Gloria Anzaldúa Room

Peter Hare Room

John J. McDermott Room

Session VII.A. Panel Discussion: Hemispheric Dialogues: Ruptures in the Colonial Legacies of the AmericasSession Chair: Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Marquette University

“Against Anti-Immigration Violence in the Americas”
Alan Chavoya, Northwestern University

“On Indigeneity and Sylvia Wynter”
Elisabeth Paquette, UNC Charlotte

Hemispheric Dialogues: Ruptures In The Colonial Legacies of The AmericasAlan Chavoya, Northwestern; Elisabeth Paquette , UNC Charlotte

Session VII.B. Panel Discussion: The Need for Inter-American Philosophy: Anticipating and Solving Pedagogical Challenges

"Introduction to The Philosophies of America Reader,"
Kim Díaz, El Paso Community College

“Understanding U.S.-Mexico Border Students' Identities to Improve their Representation in Philosophy Education,”
Manuela A. Gomez, El Paso Community College & University of Texas at El Paso

"The Need for Intervention in Philosophy Education: An Inter-American, Anti-Colonial Analysis of the Ideological and Institutional Forces in Contemporary Academia,"
Rocio Mercedes Alvarez,cTexas A&M University & California State Univeristy Stanislaus

The Need For Inter-American Philosophy: Anticipating and Solving Pedagogical ChallengesKim Diaz, El Paso Community College; Manuela Gomez, El Paso Community College & University of Texas at El Paso; Rocio Alvarez, Texas A&M University & California State Univeristy Stanislaus

Session VII.C. Sociedad Latinoamericana Peirce

“Peirce's Reception in Colombia”
Douglas Niño, Universdad Tadeo Lozano, Colombia

“The History of Peirce's Reception in Argentina”
Catalina Hynes, President of the Peirce Latin-American Society; Universidad Nacional del Tucumán, Argentina

“Pragmatism in Brazil”
Ivo Ibri, Centro de Pragmatismo; Pontifical University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

“Peircean Pragmatism and its Reception in Mexico”
Paniel Reyes-Cárdenas, UPAEP University, Puebla, Mexico

Session VII.D. Traditional Papers: Traditional Pragmatism, Perception and the Human ConditionSession Chair: Jim Garrison, Virginia TechPeirce'S Theory of Perception: Three Problems For The Realist ReadingGriffin Klemick, University of TorontoDiscussant: Jim Garrison, Virginia TechDewey and The Tragedy of The Human ConditionYarran Hominh, Columbia UniversityDiscussant: Jim Garrison, Virginia Tech

1:00pm-2:30pm

John J. McDermott Room	Dining Room	Second Floor Dining
Jane Collective for Feminism in American Philosophies Meeting	Lunch at the Hacienda	SAAP Board Meeting

2:30pm-4:10pm

Concurrent Session VIII

Gloria Anzaldúa Room

John J. McDermott Room

Peter Hare Room

Sor Juana Room

Session VIII.A. Discussion Papers: Pragmatism, Chicanismo and Black ConsciousnessSession Chair: Terrance MacMullan, Eastern Washington UniversityTodos Somos Joaquín: An Inter-American Elaboration On Chicanismo, Or The Social and Political Philosophy of The Chicana/o Civil Rights MovementJohn Kaiser Ortiz, Millersville UniversityDiscussant: Terrance MacMullan, Eastern Washington UniversityOn A Prevailing Misinterpretation of Biko’s Black Consciousness and How Dewey Helps Us Correct ItJoshua Thomas, St. John's UniversityDiscussant: Terrance MacMullan, Eastern Washington University

Session VIII.B. Discussion Papers: Immigration and Human RightsConsideraciones éticas de Las Organizaciones Sociales Fronterizas En Defensa de Los MigrantesLuis Ruben Diaz- Cepeda, Universidad Autonoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ)Immigration and Human RightsJorge Valadez, Our Lady of the Lake University

Session VIII.C. Josiah Royce SocietySession Chair: Daniel J. Brunson, Morgan State University

David Glidden (University of California, Riverside)
"Royce on Loyalty and the Problem of Economic Migration"

Olav Bryant Smith (California State University, Chico)
"Reflections on Evil: María Pía Lara and Josiah Royce"

Discussant: Daniel J. Brunson (Morgan State University)

Session VIII.D. Caribbean Philosophical Association

“On Shifting the Geography of Reason,” Michael J. Monahan, University of Memphis

“Chicana and Latina Feminist Philosophy: Toward a New ‘American' Phenomenology,” Jacqueline M. Martinez, Arizona State University

“The Story of Luisa Calderón: From a Scene of Subjection to Say Her Name,” Nathifa Greene, Gettysburg College

“Living Existentialism: The Global North and South," T. Storm Heter, East Stroudsburg University

4:10pm-4:30pm

Refreshment Break

4:30pm-5:30pm

Plenary III

General Meeting (Chapel)

5:30pm-6:30pm

Plenary IV: President's Address

“Filosofeando en jazz latino: contrapunteo de filosofías americanas de la vida a favor de una democracia radical.” (“Rubbing” philosophies of life in the Americas on behalf of radical democracy.) (Chapel)

Gregory Pappas, Texas A&M University

Introduction by David Hildebrand, University of Colorado Denver

6:30pm-9:00pm

Banquet and Awards (Dining Room)

MARIACHI FEMENIL NUEVO TECALITAN

(All female Mariachi band from Guadalajara)