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
Occurrences
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Monday, October 28, 2024, 4:15 p.m.–5:45 p.m.Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 9:30 a.m.–4:15 p.m.
Audience
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