Events

Thursday, November 10, 2022, 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m, 206 Ingraham Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Speakers:

Mariana Ortega, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Penn State University

Ortega’s research focuses on Women of Color Feminisms, in particular Latina Feminisms, 20th Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology (Heidegger), Philosophy of Race, and Aesthetics. She investigates questions of self, identity, as well as visual representations of race, gender, and sexuality. She has published in various journals including The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, International Philosophical Quarterly, Critical Philosophy of Race, Hypatia, Radical Philosophy Review, and philoSOPHIA. She is author of In-Between:  Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self (SUNY, 2016) in which she presents a theory of multiplicitous selfhood informed by women of color theorizing, in particular Latina feminisms, and Heideggerian phenomenology. She is co-editor with Andrea Pitts and José Medina of Theories of the Flesh, Latinx and Latin American Feminisms, Transformation and Resistance (Oxford University Press 2019); she is also co-editor with Linda Martín-Alcoff of the anthology Constructing the Nation:  A Race and Nationalism Reader (SUNY, 2009). Her current research is at the nexus of aesthetics, photographic theory, race, and the epistemology of ignorance.  She is the founder and director of the Latina/x Feminisms Roundtable (formerly the Roundtableon Latina feminism), a forum dedicated to discussions of Latina/x and Latin American feminisms.

 

Stephanie Rivera-Berruz, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Co-Director of the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity at Marquette University

Rivera Berruz’s main research interests lie in Latin American Philosophy and Latinx feminisms as well philosophy of race, gender, and sexuality. She recently co-edited an anthology: Comparative Studies in Latin American and Asian Philosophies (2018), and her publications appear in Hypatia, Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, and Essays in Philosophy. Originally from Bayamon, Puerto Rico, Dr. Rivera Berruz has lived both inside and outside of the continental United States. She credits her migrations as inspirations for her interests in philosophies that explore myriad dimensions of identity. Her current research examines the philosophical thought of three lettered women in the Hispanophone Caribbean at the turn of the twentieth century.

 

Description: For the Asian American studies scholars erin Khué Ninh and James Kyoung-Jin Lee the model minority is not a myth. It is instead a profound hindrance to Asian American well-being. In this dialogue, drawing on their recently published books, Ninh and Lee will discuss the ableist violence of model minoritarianism, the need for care that it produces, and the infrastructures of care that might be able to meet those needs.

Dána-Ain Davis, Professor of Anthropology at Queen College, CUNY. Medical anthropologist and doula, author of Reproductive Injustice: Race, Pregnancy, and Prematurity (2019) and the co-author of Feminist Ethnography: Thinking through Methodologies, Challenges, and Possibilities, among other publications. In 2018 she was appointed by New York Governor Cuomo to the Governor’s Maternal Mortality Taskforce. Davis is currently carrying out an archival project on the eugenics movement.

Cara Page is a Black Feminist Queer cultural/memory worker, curator, and organizer. An architect of the Healing Justice movement, she has fought for LGBTQGNCI, Black, People of Color & Indigenous liberation for over 30 years. She is the former Executive Director of the Audre Lorde Project. She is also the co-founder of the Kindred Southern Healing Justice Collective. Her current project, Changing Frequencies, is a Black Queer Feminist led, abolitionist organizing project that designs cultural memory work to disrupt the harms & experimentation of the Medical Industrial Complex* (MIC).