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Upcoming Events

"If Marx Knew About the Microbiome"

American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division) 2023,

San Francisco, CA

Past Events

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Keynote Speaker

 

2022

McNair & ROP Emerging Scholars Ceremony `

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

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2021

"Wilson Usedo: Si Se Puede" Award Recipient

& Class of 2021 Graduation Ceremony

Latino Cultural Center

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

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Invited Talks (non-exhaustive)

 

2022

“Why Colonization is an Oversimplified Story of Hispanidad

Hispanic Heritage Month Speaker Series

Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, AZ.

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2022

“Binti and Africanfuturism”

Center for Ethics.

Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA.

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2021

“Mujerista Ethics: Reimagining Self-Ownership”

Phil/Rels Conversations: Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.

Ball State University, Muncie, IN.

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2021

“The Non-Hispanic "Hispanics: Gitanos Adding more Complexity to the Ethnorace”

Hispanic Heritage Month Series: Latinx & Latin American Studies, and Department of Philosophy.

SUNY (State University of New York), Cortland, NY.

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2020

"How Does Capitalism Create an Identity Crisis for Our Species?"

PurSysT (Purdue Systems Thinkers) Colloquium Series.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

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2018

“The Double-Standard of Nomadism: Who’s Allowed to Move? On Gitanos ("Gypsies") of Spain,”

RPA Panel: Radical and Indigenous Philosophy.

American Philosophical Association (APA) Central Division, Chicago, IL.

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2016

“Capitalism and Human Nature,”

Purdue Polymath Society Colloquium.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

 

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Presentations (non-exhaustive)

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2022

“Bread for the Body, Roses for the Soul: The Revolution Must Demand Health,”

Radical Philosophy Association 15th Biennial Conference: “The Point is to Change it”.

University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL.

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2020

“Teaching Philosophy of Race,”

Teaching the Philosophy of Race Panel/Symposium.

Philosophy of Education Society, Pittsburg, PA.

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2017   

“The Womanist and Mujerista Critique of Self-Ownership,”

Inclusive Philosophies Conference

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

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2016   

"The Fetishization of Individual Freedom: How a False Social Ontology Has Taken Over the World, and What Can Be Put in Its Place,"

12th Biennial RPA Conference: 21st-Century Socialism, Concepts and Visions.

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.

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2016  

“Finding Consistency Between Social Ontology and Political Arrangements: A Critique of the Neoliberal              Concept of Human,”

Graduate Student Symposium.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

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2015   

“Organizing the Precariat Class as a Strategy for Systemic Transformation,”

Renovación Socialista y Crisis Capitalista conference.

University of Havana, Havana, Cuba.

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2013  

“Deterritorializing Paris: The Situationist International as a Nomadic War Machine,”

Stony Brook University Philosophy and the Arts Conference.

Stony Brook University, New York, NY.

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2013  

“The Paris Commune,”

International Socialist Organization Lecture Series.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

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2012  

“An Analysis of Creativity as a Cure to the Existential Crisis,”

The 13th National Conference for McNair Scholars.

University of Maryland, College Park, MD.

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2011   

“Warhol Enacting Heidegger’s Transition to the Postmodern,”

UNM Undergraduate Research & Creativity Conference.

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

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2011   

“The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus and Philosophy,”

Phi Sigma Tau Film and Philosophy Series.

University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.

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Commentator
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2019  

Victor Guerra’s “How to Deal with Kant’s Racism: In and Out of the Classroom”

Race and Education Panel.

American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division Meeting, New York, NY.

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2020

Elvira Basevich's "What is an Anti-Racist Philosophy of Race in Kant and Hegel?"

Hegel and the Unity of Science Conference.

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

 

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Chair
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2019  

Author Meets Critics: Linda Martin Alcoff’s “Rape and Resistance”

American Philosophical Association (APA) Central Division Meeting, Denver, CO.

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2016  

Panel: “Non-Violence and Suffering,”

12th Biennial RPA Conference: 21st-Century Socialism, Concepts and Visions.

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.

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2016  

Panel: “Power, Violence, and Vulnerability”

Philosophy Born of Struggle. Theorizing within Revolt: Black Power, Black Life, & Black Thought -

The Role of Africana Philosophy in 21st Century Struggles.

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

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