This Philosophy Symposium will host a keynote speaker on Monday, October 28, followed by a day of presentations on Tuesday, October 29. The symposium, “Unmaking/Remaking Homes and Bodies: Racialized Routes, Returns, and Refusals” is sponsored by the Rock Ethics Institute’s Critical Philosophy of Race Initiative.

Unmaking/Remaking Homes and Bodies: Racialized Routes, Returns, and Refusals

Penn State

Fall 2024 Symposium

Location: 401 Steidle Building

Monday, October 28, 2024

4:15–5:45 p.m.

Helen Ngo, “Home and its Refusals: Tensions of Flesh and Place in the Racialised and Diasporic Subject”

Tuesday, October 29, 2024

9:30–10:45 a.m. Session I

Lori Gallegos de Castillo, “Love It or Leave It: On the Expectation to Feel at Home”

Commentator: Daniel Calzadillas-Rodriguez

Moderator: India Rhodes

11:00–12:15 p.m. Session II

Alia Al-Saji, “Debilitating Gaza, Remembering Resistance: Colonial duration, qahr, and dismemberment”

Commentator: Paige Chapman

Moderator: Michelle Meeks

1:30–2:45 p.m. Session III

Devonya Havis, “‘Standing 33 Degrees Between Three Rivers on a Walking Road’: Blues Landscapes and Alchemical Spaces”

Commentator: Charié Payne

Moderator: Tyrique Mack-Georges

3:00–4:15 p.m. Session IV

Eyo Ewara, “At Home in Estrangement?: Race, Critique, and the Unheimlich”

Commentator: Kaílah Jeffries

Moderator: Corena Smith