2023-24
summer 2023
thurs july 27 — mid-summer mexican lab workshop:
– francisco gallegos (wake forest) on tomas atencio
– karina ortiz, patricia marechal, clinton tolley (ucsd) on sepulveda
– manuel vargas (ucsd) on vasconcelos
fall 2023
meeting fridays 11am-1230pm unless otherwise noted
oct 20: moraima arias on castellanos
oct 27: karina ortiz on las casas
nov 3: kayla aceves on dussel
nov 10: prep for ramos-fest
nov 15-16: ramos-fest with robert sanchez (occidental/ucla); special guest: carlos sanchez (san jose st)
nov 24: emiliano salomon on vasconcelos
dec 1: joseph martinez on nepantla
dec 8: juan carlos gonzalez on marti
winter 2024
bi-weekly meetings weds 330-430pm
to discuss santiago castro-gómez’s critique of latin american reason
spring 2024
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2022-23
fall 2022
virginia aspe [postponed because of the strike!]
james maffie [postponed because of the strike!]
winter 2023
fri jan 20 — organizational mtg
fri jan 27 — juan carlos gonzalez on simone de beauvoir, america, and mexican existentialism
fri feb 10 — manuel vargas on leon-portilla and discontents
fri mar 3 — karina ortiz on tbd
fri mar 10 — emiliano salomon on tbd
spring 2023
tues apr 4 – clinton tolley on rosario castellanos on feminine spirit and feminine culture
fri may 19 – jim maffie on nahua ethics
fri may 26 – mariana ortega on tbd
fri june 2 – virginia aspe & jc gonzalez on tbd
2021-22
fall 2021
tues sept 28 — organizational mtg
thurs oct 14 — discussion of las casas & sepulveda
thurs oct 28 — discussion of dussel, the invention of the americas
thurs nov 4 — discussion of dussel (cont)
tues nov 16 — discussion of villoro, essay on sahagun
thurs dec 2 — discussion of villoro, on ethics of belief (last chapter of creer, saber, y conocer)
winter 2022
fri jan 14 — manuel vargas on sor juana on epistemology, agency, and value
fri jan 28 — jc gonzalez on antonio caso
fri feb 11 — karina ortiz on sepulveda and perfectionism
fri feb 25 — clinton tolley on aesthetic suprematism in jose vasconcelos
spring 2022
mon may 9 — sofia ortiz-hinojosa (vassar) on sor juana
2020-21 [covid]
2019-20 [research]
2018-19
thurs nov 29 2018 (330-430pm philosophy library H&SS 8th fl) — organizational meeting!
weds april 17 2019 (415-454pm philosophy seminar room H&SS 7th fl) — with grant silva (marquette), on leopoldo zea’s 1942 ‘una aventura en la ‘meta-historia”
fri may 10 2019 (215-345pm philosophy library H&SS 8th fl) — with clinton tolley (ucsd) joint meeting with the history of philosophy roundtable (HOPR), on jose vasconcelos and the philosophy of culture