Pbos Program
Philosophy Born of Struggle
Nov. 4-5, 2022
Full Program Schedule
FRIDAY, NOV. 4, 2022
Welcomes will be presented to each Zoom Room by Dwayne Tunstall, Executive Director of Philosophy Born of Struggle (Grand Valley State University)
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
1 – A / 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Central (Zoom Room A)
Resisting Gender
Chair: Marlon Smith, University of Houston and The Women’s Home
Scout Etterson (they/them), Arizona State University
“Understanding the Transgender Relationship Between Sex and Gender”
Philile Langa, University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa)
“Black LGBTQ+ Identities and Taking Up Space in the City of Durban”
1 – B / 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Central (Zoom Room B)
Resisting Ableism
Chair: Amy Pommerening, Texas State University
Tekla Babyak, Disability Activist and Independent Scholar, PhD Cornell Musicology
“On Being a Killjoy at Academic Conferences: Toward a Philosophy of Disability Activism”
Please note: Tekla has a disabling anxiety disorder caused by multiple sclerosis. Please be supportive and encouraging during the Q&A.
Bella-Rose Grace Kelly, Marquette University Philosophy
“Concealing Gender Non-Conformity: A Trans Phenomenology of Disability”
2 – A / Plenary: 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Central (Zoom Room A)
Chair: Audwin Anderson, Texas State University Sociology
Presenter: Amir Jaima, Texas A&M University Philosophy
"Literary Analyses of Curry’s Man-Not, avant la lettre: Ishmael Reed's and Richard Wright's Anticipatory Contributions to Black Male Studies"
11:00 AM – 12:15 PM Central
No event scheduled for this time slot; please consider attending the Plenary in Room A.
12:15 - 12:30 PM Central
BREAK
3 – A / 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Central (Zoom Room A)
Struggle in the Global South
Chair: Gloria Martinez, Director, The Center for Diversity and Gender Studies, Texas State University
Tanesha Gibbs, University of the West Indies Mona
“Text, Context and Pretext” (about Caribbean Squatters)
Bernardo R. Vargas, University of North Texas Philosophy
“Gasoline Baths and Mexican Women’s Resistance: A Philosophical Reflection on The Bath Riots of 1917 and Charles Mills’ Racial Contract”
Sergio Gallegos, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
“The Racial Contract and the Racialization of Pathogens and Genes”
12:15 - 12:30 PM Central
BREAK
3 - B / 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Central (Zoom Room B)
Struggles Against Alienation
Chair: Amy Pommerening, Texas State University
Joshua P. Baldevieso, Notre Dame of Marbel University, Philippines
“Alienation of Nature: An Application of Marx’s Theory of Alienation to Natural Environment”
Najii Wilcox, University of Memphis Philosophy
“The Double-Bind of the Black Scholar: How Racial Embodiment Engages with Academica”
Linus Oluchukwu Akudolu, PhD, Philosophy/Religion, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo, Ebonyi State, Nigeria
“Biafranism in Nigeria: A Struggle Against Alienation”
4 – A / 2:15 PM – 3:45 PM Central
Afropessimism
Orlando Hawkins, University of Oregon
"Afropessimism and the Specter of Black Nihilism"
Osman Nemli, Vassar College
“On Afropessimism and the Voices of Fanon”
Norman Ajari, Francophone Black Studies, The University of Edinburgh
“The Aeon of Blackness: Aporias and Openings in Afropessimist Philosophy of History”
5 – A / 4:00 PM – 5:15 PM Central
Plenary on Insurrectionist Philosophy
Jacoby Adeshei Carter, Howard University
Sheena M. Mason, SUNY Oneonta
Lee A. McBride III, The College of Wooster
6 – A / 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Central
Keynote
Chair: Dwonna Goldstone, Director, African American Studies, Texas State University
Keynote Speaker: Tommy Curry, University of Edinburgh
“Is Black Male Studies an End?: What Is Left for Philosophy after the Disaggregation of Racist Violence?”
SATURDAY, NOV. 5, 2022
7 – A / 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM Central
Disappearance, Catharsis, and Subaltern Resistance
Ben Brazelton, Boston Public Schools Social Studies
"¿Cuántos años sin justicia?" (On the Disappeared)
Chris Randall, Independent Scholar
“ ‘Pushing’ Toward the Mark: Trap Muzik as a Sacred Epistemological, Rhetorical, and Cathartic Alternative to the ‘Narcissistic Slavery’ of Collegial Respectability”
Binu 'Ben' Varghese, Princeton Theological Seminary
“Desis In America: Immigration and Epistemics of Antiblackness and Racism” (about S. Asian Indians in America)
8 – A / 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM Central
Plenary: Author Meets Critics
Philosophy and the Modern African American Freedom Struggle: A Freedom Gaze (Lexington: 2022)
Author: Anthony Sean Neal, Mississippi State University
Critics:
Anwar Uhuru, Monmonth University
Stephen Ferguson, North Carolina State University
9 – A / 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM Central
Black Male Studies
Chair: Idris Robinson, Texas State University
Darius Cret, University of Edinburgh Philosophy
“Psychotically Dissident, Liminally Human: Schizophrenia, Black Male Militancy, and the Caricatural Construal of Black Masculinity within Philosophy”
Adebayo Oluwayomi, West Chester University Philosophy
“Black Male Studies and the Question of Masculinity in Gender Discourse in Postcolonial Africa”
Corey Reed, Butler University Philosophy
“Black-Male Imagos as Psychological and Existential Boundaries”
10 – A / 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Central
Engaging Curry
Chair: Keisha Ray, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston
Miron Clay-Gilmore, University of Edinburgh
“The 2nd Coming: Anthony Lemelle Jr. and the Conceptual Patterns of Inquiry in Black Male Studies Scholarship in the 21st Century”
Dalitso Ruwe, PhD, Queen’s University, Canada
“Racial Misandry and Restrictive Covenants in the aftermath of Black Male Death in the Age of Black Lives Matter”
Alberto G. Urquidez, St. Olaf College
and Marlee Baron, Independent Scholar
“Intersectional Invisibility and Black Male Privilege: A Critical Examination of Tommy Curry’s Critique of Intersectionality”
11 - A / 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM Central
Closing Ceremony: In Remembrance of Frederick Douglass
Emcee: Dwayne Tunstall, Grand Valley State University, Executive Director of Philosophy Born of Struggle