Apr
6
Fri
Issues of Identity @ Dept of Philosophy, Fordham University
Apr 6 – Apr 7 all-day

Fordham University Graduate Conference

The Fordham Philosophical Society invites current graduate students to submit abstracts for presentation at its upcoming conference. Our topic this year is identity and we welcome submissions from all philosophical fields and interests. Some possible areas of exploration include: logical identity, the politics of identity, identity and difference, identity and narrative, personal identity, and other themes related to the critical study of identity.

The Fordham Philosophical Society is a consciously pluralistic organization and welcomes submissions from all philosophical perspectives including, but not limited to, Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, Pragmatism, Analytic Philosophy, Process Philosophy, Neo-Thomism, Critical Theory, Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, and Postmodern Philosophy.

Submission Deadline: December 4, 2017

Submissions should be in the form of maximum 300 word abstracts for a paper of 3000 words with a presentation of 30 minutes. To facilitate blind review, do not include any identifying information in the abstract, but instead include your name, institutional affiliation, and phone contact in the body of your email.

All submissions and questions should be emailed to fordhamgradconference@gmail.com.

Apr
12
Thu
Hacer Escuela/Inventing School: Latin American Pedagogy Conference @ 12th Floor lounge (April 12-13) and McMahon 109 (April 14)
Apr 12 – Apr 14 all-day

The Hacer Escuela/Inventing School workshop series brings together thinkers and practitioners from across the Americas who have developed new pedagogical techniques influenced by critical theory traditions, to share their work with professors, students, and others studying critical theory in the United States. Our project asks how, notwithstanding the increasing imposition of neoliberal measures, a variety of education movements from Latin American and the Caribbean have given rise to new understandings of pedagogical relations, of what it means to be a subject of education, and how educational practice can refigure public space.

Registration is free, but please register to help us better plan for the workshop.

Friday, April 13

12th floor Lounge, Lowenstein

10:45 – 11 a.m
Welcome

11 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
“Inventing School as a Gesture of Equality, of Life”
Walter Omar Kohan (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro and NEFI)

12:45 – 2 p.m.
Lunch

2 – 3:30 p.m.
“Che in the Barrio”
Frances Negrón-Muntaner (Columbia University)

“The Founding of Latinx Studies and the Pedagogy of the Jesuit Historian Fernando Picó”
Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé (Fordham University)

3:30 – 4 p.m.
Coffee break

4 – 5:45 p.m.
“It’s in Our Hands: The Depths of Decolonizing Praxis”
Melissa Rosario (Center for Embodied Pedagogy and Action, Puerto Rico)


Saturday, April 14

McMahon 109

11 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
“Pre-Texts: Literacy, Innovation, Citizenship”
Doris Sommer (Harvard University and Cultural Agents)

12:45 – 2 p.m.
Lunch

2 – 3:45 p.m.
“HilariOUCH: Satire as Critical Tool”
Marlène Ramírez-Cancio (Hemispheric Institute, New York University)

3:45 – 4:15 p.m.
Coffee break

4:15 – 5:45 p.m.
Concluding roundtable discussion with all speakers