Anzaldúa Speaker Series in Philosophy
Honoring Gloria E. Anzaldúa's Philosophical Legacy at UTRGV
The Anzaldúa Speaker Series in Philosophy was officially inaugurated in 2008 to honor Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa’s life and work by highlighting its unique philosophical significance. The Department of Philosophy together with the ongoing support of the Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley invites intellectuals to share their current research, projects and/or to lead workshops with students, faculty, staff and the local and diverse communities to which we all belong.
Our yearly programs celebrate not only the immense influence Gloria Anzaldúa has had across many academic fields, on individuals, and within communities, but also the life changing contributions of a Rio Grande Valley native and alumna of one of our legacy institutions – Pan American University.
All Anzaldúa Speaker Series in Philosophy events are open to the public. If you have any questions regarding the Series, please contact the coordinator Cynthia M. Paccacerqua at cynthia.paccacerqua@utrgv.edu
Visit the Anzaldúa Speaker Series in Philosophy website for more information regarding the story and vision behind the Series.
Previous Series
April 26, 2019
Talk: “What's in an Image? Time, Tension, and Art's Relation to the Structure of Experience”
Dr. Jeff Morrisey.
October 13, 2016
Talk: “Shamanic Bodies: Alcoff, Anzaldúa, Kusch, and Andean Corporalities”
Dr. Omar Rivera, Department of Philosophy and Race and Ethnic Studies Program at Southwestern University.
March 24, 2015
Talk: “Redefining Latino Masculinities through Anzaldúa’s Conocimiento and Collaborative Testimonio”
Dr. Aída Hurtado, Chair of the Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara & alumna of our legacy institution UTPA
April 6, 2015
Talk: “Vulnerable Bodies and Environmental Justice in the Murals of Juana Alicia”
Dr. Julie Avril Minich, Department of English and Mexican American & Latina/a Studies at the University of Texas, Austin
November 21 & 22, 2014
Pedro Di Pietri, University of California, Berkeley. “Loving Sideways/Living Beyond Borders: Decolonizing Space in Xicana and Latina Feminisms.”
Workshop: “La Jotería: Celebrating Queerness and Latinidad in the 21st Century.”
March 21, 2013
Jennifer McWeeny, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. “The Colonial, Catholic Body: Identity and Self-Relation in Mexican and Irish Diasporas.”
March 29, 2012
What is the Transmodern Condition? Reflections on the Braceros Program
Dr. Sebastian Purcell, Philosophy Department at SUNY Courtland
November 8, 2012
Robin Henderson-Espinoza, University of Denver. “Un estilo mestizaje: Tracing Ethical Intuitions in Anzaldúa.”
February 17, 2011
Christopher Lauer, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. “Beauvoir and Nancy on Touching and Borders.”
March 3, 2011
“The Many Borders of the Valley: First Impressions.” Mariana Alessandri, Cynthia Paccacerqua, and Alexander Stehn, UTPA.
February 4, 2010
Shannon Winnubst, Ohio State University. “Queers Have No Passports: On the Floating Borders of Nationalism.”
March 25, 2010
Talk: “Hermeneutic Dimensions of Recognition”
Dr. Theodore George, Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University
October 7, 2010
Jennifer Suchland, Ohio State University. “Post Cold War Borders: Linking the Postcolonial and Postsocialist”
February 2009
Talk: “Pure Pleasure and Abstract Art in Plato’s Philebus“
Dr. Ryan T. Drake, Department of Philosophy at Fairfield University
Dr. Sara Brill, Department of Philosophy at Fairfield University
October 9, 2009
Gregory Pappas, Texas A&M University. “Being in the Border is an Opportunity and Not a Fall from Grace”
November 19, 2009
Leigh Johnson, Rhodes College, “Heroes, Scapegoats and ‘Good’ Liberals: The Complicated Operations of Race in Post-Obama America”
October 2008
Talk: “Torture and the Production of bare life: Extrajudicial Measures in the War on Terror”
Dr. Jeffrey D. Gower, Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy at Villanova University
December 5, 2008
Talk: “Authority, Evidence, and Second-Personal Reasons for Belief”
Dr. Ben McMyler, Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University
November 2007
Gloria Anzaldúa Speaker Series in Philosophy Founded by Cory Wimberly.
Jesse Bailey, “What is Wrong with Meno."