PBOS 2015: EMBODIED PHILOSOPHY & EPISTEMOLOGIES OF LIBERATION
NOVEMBER 6-7, 2015
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Hosted by the Department of Philosophy and Africana Studies Institute, UConn and the Caribbean Philosophical Association
Sponsored Sessions: Centre for Race and Identity, South Africa, Latina Philosophy Roundtable,
Mexican-American Philosophy Roundtable, Alain Locke Society, Caribbean Philosophical Association
All sessions will take place in the UConn Student Union, in the Community Room of the African American Cultural Center (AACC), the Program Room of Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center (PRLACC), or Student Union Meeting Room 410 (SU 410)
November 6, 2015
8:30 a.m.
AACC
Welcome to PBOS 2015 by Leonard Harris, Board, Tommy Curry, Executive Director, Philosophy Born of Struggle Association; Don Baxter, Chair, Department of Philosophy, UConn
9:00-10:30 a.m.
AACC
Session IA: Shock, Ignorance and Crisis
Alice Everly, McGill University, “Shock and Unsettling: Resistance to Austerity as Paradigm Disruption”
Kelisha Graves, Liberty University, “B(l)ack at Crisis: The Protracted Black Struggle in America under the Dishonesty of a Post-Racial Teleology”
Zachary Yvaire, “Race and The Trace: Parkour as Liberating Technology”
Session IB: History, Ancestry and Freedom
PRLACC
Moderator: Steven Del Visco, Political Science, UConn
Tom Meagher, UConn, “Freedom Hesitant: Du Boisian Human Sciences and Ethical Philosophy”
Amir Jaima, St. Lawrence University, “On the Methodological Advantages of Historical Fiction for Philosophical Purposes: W.E.B. DuBois’ Critique of ‘The Race Problem’ in The Black Flame”
Sergio A. Gallegos, Metropolitan State University of Denver, “Ancestralidade as Epistemic Resistance in Brazil”
Stephanie Berruz & Jonathan Astacio, William Paterson University, “The Undaunted: Excavating A Dominican Garveyite in Harlem"
10:45-12:15 p.m.
AACC
Keynote, “Active Subjectivity, Critical Worldtraveling, and Resistance,” Mariana Ortega, John Carroll University
1:30-2:45 p.m.
Session IVA: Latina Feminism, Embodiment, and the Political, a panel organized by the Latina Philosophy Roundtable
AACC
Daphne Tayor-Garcia, University of California, San Diego, “The legacy of the sistema de castas, embodiment, and Latina political consciousness”
Stephanie Rivera Berruz, William Paterson University, “The Menstruating Body Politic: Jose Martí and Gender”
Andrea J. Pitts, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, “Racial Interpellation and Political Insurgency”
Session IVB: Emergent Indigeneity: Resituating the Epistemic Starting Point for U.S. Subaltern Theologies of Struggle
PRLACC
Moderator: Samuel Martinez, El Instituto and Anthropology, UConn
Rufus Burnett, Jr., Duquesne University
Steven J. Battin, University of Notre Dame
Malik J.M. Walker, Fordham University
Amy R. Barbour, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary
3:00-4:30 p.m.
AACC
Session VI: Religion and Resistance
Marlon Smith, Union Institute and University, “Prison Prophets: Reframing the Discourse on Black Feminism, Black Religion and Mass Incarceration”
Aaron Shepherd, Emory University, “The Political Promise of Piety: Forgiveness as a Political Virtue in the Black Church Tradition”
Kristin Waters, Worcester State University, “Dismantling Ignorance: The Persuasive Powers of David Walker and Maria W. Stewart”
4:45-5:15 p.m.
AACC
William R. Jones Award
5:15 - 7:00 p.m.
AACC
Closing Session of Day 1: Critically Engaging Neil Roberts’ Freedom as Marronnage and LaRose Parris’ Being Apart, a roundtable session organized by the Caribbean Philosophical Association
Moderator: Dana Miranda, Philosophy, UCONN
Michael Monahan, Marquette University
Lewis Gordon, UCONN
Jane Gordon, UCONN
Neil Roberts, Williams College
LaRose Parris, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
Saturday November 7, 2015
9:00-10:30 a.m.
AACC
Session IA: Sylvia Wynter’s New Humanism
Jasmine Wallace, Villanova University, “Fabulous Muscles: A Sociogenic Analysis of the Tense Colonial Body”
Elisabeth Paquette, York University, “Embodiments of Autopoiesis”
Muhammad Velji, McGill University, “Seizing the Means of the Opiate Reward/Punishment System: Wynter's Liberatory Biology”
Andrea J. Pitts, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, “The Medicalized Body of Coloniality: Compliance and Truth-telling in Biomedicine”
Session IB: Survival Programs, Poetics and Liberatory Education: Displacing Western Categories and Concepts of Man
SU 410
Moderator: Mecke Nagel, SUNY, Cortland
Dalitso Ruwe, Texas A&M University, “The American Negro Academy and Black Panther Survival Programs”
Andrew Soto, Texas A&M University, “Mexican-American Philosophy and a New Episteme: A Sociodiagnosis Rupturing the Western Creation of Man, Humanity and Symbolic Order”
Darian Spearman, UConn, “Dussell, Césaire, and the Poetics of Liberation”
10:45-12:15 a.m.
AACC
Session IIIA: A Panel organized by the Mexican American Philosophy Roundtable
Moderator: Anne Gebelein, El Instituto, UConn
Grant Silva, Marquette University, “Latin American Philosophy as Philosophy Born of Colonial Struggle”
Jose Jorge Mendoza, University Massachusetts Lowell, “A Decolonial Approach to Immigration Justice”
George Fourlas, Hampshire College, “Orientalism, Hellenism(s) and the Colonized East”
Session IIIB: Critically Engaging Frantz Fanon
SU 410
Brandon Hogan, Howard University, “Fanon on Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic”
H. Alexander Welcome, LaGaurdia Community College, “Narcissism as Disconcern: White Articulations of the White World in the Work of Frantz Fanon”
Patrick Anderson, Texas A&M University, “The Phallus and the Ogre: Fanon, Cleaver, and an Anticolonial Theory of White Female Power and Black Male Vulnerability”
Chris Randall, Rutgers University, “Money over Everything: The Money Team and the Eschatological Dilemmas of Black Masculinity”
1:15-2:45 p.m.
AACC
Keynote, “The Cross and the Lynching Tree,” James Cone, Union Theological Seminary
3:00-4:30 p.m.
AACC
Session IVA: Hope, Affect, and the Political
Moderator: Carol Gray, Political Science, UConn
Greg Moses, Texas State University, “Hope in the Body of the Future: On the Peace-Seeking Function of Religious Valuation”
Nick Bromell, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, “Affect, Anger, and African-American Philosophy”
Joseph Haroff, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, “Affective Axiology, Somaesthetic Ethical Imperatives, and the Politically Transformative Power of Music: A Philosophical ‘Boom Bap Mixing’ of Alain Locke's Value Theory, Si-Meng Confucian Ethics (æ��å�å��ä¹ï¿½å�«ç��å¸), and Hip-Hop Performative Praxis”
Session IVB: Race Contacts and Inter-Racial Relations: A Centennial Symposium in Honor of Alain L. Locke, invited panel Organized by the Alain Locke Society
SU 410
Moderator: Alberto G. Urquidez, Sacred Heard University
Jacoby A. Carter, John Jay College, CUNY, “Abandoning Pernicious Race Creeds: Alain Locke's Philosophy of Race”
Lee A. McBride III, The College of Wooster, “Cultural Reciprocity and Racial Imperialism”
4:45-6:15 p.m.
AACC
Closing Session: A PBOS Book Roundtable on James Haile, ed., Philosophical Meditations on Richard Wright (2013) and Dwayne Tunstall, Doing Philosophy Personally: Thinking about Metaphysics, Theism, and Antiblack Racism (2013)
Moderator: Anthony Ramos, Purdue University
Andrew Soto, Texas A&M
Patrick Anderson, Texas A&M
Dalitso Ruwe, Texas A & M
Sponsors: UCONN, Texas A & M University, Caribbean Philosophical Association, Purdue University.
Special Thanks: Willena Price of the African American Cultural Center, Fanny Hannon of the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center, Jelani Cobb of the Africana Studies Institute, Don Baxter of the Philosophy Department, Lindsay Halle of Political Science, all at UConn; PBS Selection Committee, Blind Review, Jane Gordon, Dwayne Tunstall, Michael Monahan, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University and the Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University.
Sponsoring PBS: http://pbos.com/About
For more information, contact: Jane Gordon at jane.gordon@uconn.edu