Day 1: Jul 24, 2023 (Monday)
9:00 - 9:30
Registration & Breakfast
9:30 - 12:30
Introductions and Overview
Jim Maffie, Carlos Sanchez, Stephanie Rivera Berruz
12:30 - 1:30
Lunch Break
1:30 - 4:30
Introduction to Aztec/Nahua Philosophy
Jim Maffie
Sources and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Metaphysics (a)
“The Five Suns” (many of the key defining themes of Mexica cosmogony, metaphysics and ethics are expressed in the film)
Metaphysics (b)
James Maffie, Aztec Philosophy (in required book), chs. 1-3, 6, pp. 512-513
5:30 onwards
Dinner @ Restaurant
Day 2: Jul 25, 2023 (Tuesday)
9:00 - 9:30
Breakfast
9:30 - 12:30
Introduction to Aztec/Nahua Ethics
Jim Maffie
Ethics (narrower focus)
Sahagún, Bernardino de (1953-82). (FC) Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Arthur J.O. Anderson & Charles Dibble, eds. and trans. 12 vols. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research and University of Utah.
Ethics (broader focus)
James Maffie, Aztec Philosophy (in required book), Conclusion
Social-political Philosophy
Human~”divine” reciprocity: Human life-energy gifting and debt-payment
12:30 - 1:30
Lunch Break
1:30 - 4:30
Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century
Carlos Alberto Sanchez
Leopoldo Zea, “Philosophy as Commitment” in Carlos Alberto Sanchez and Robert Eli Sanchez (2017), Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century: Required Readings, Oxford: 125-140 (in required book)
Day 3: Jul 26, 2023 (Wednesday)
9:00 - 9:30
Breakfast
9:30 - 12:30
Jorge Portilla's "Phenomenology of Relajo"
Carlos Alberto Sanchez
12:30 - 1:30
Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:30
General Question and Answer, Pedagogy Discussion
Day 4: Jul 27, 2023 (Thursday)
9:00 - 9:30
Breakfast
9:30 - 12:30
Caribbean Feminisms: Luisa Capetillo
Stephanie Rivera Berruz
Luisa Capetillo, A Nation of Women: An Early Feminist Speaks Out (1911, 2004) (required book), focus on chapters: Preface (pp. 1-3), Free Love (pp. 31-41), To My Daughter Manuela Ledesma Capetillo (pp. 59-94)
12:30 - 1:30
Lunch Break
1:30 - 4:30
Mexican Philosophy and 20th Century Hermeneutics
Carlos Alberto Sanchez
Luis Villoro, “The Major Moments of Indigenism in Mexico: Conclusion,” (in required book) Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century: pp. 156-164.
Rosario Castellanos, “On Feminine Culture,” (in required book) Mexican Philosophy in the 20th Century: pp. 206-215.
Day 5: Jul 28, 2023 (Friday)
9:00 - 9:30
Breakfast
9:30 - 12:30
Latinx & Latin American/Decolonial Feminisms
Stephanie Rivera Berruz
Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) (required book), focus on: (3) Entering the Serpent, (5) How to Tame a Wild Tongue, (7) La conciencia de la mestiza: Towards a New Consciousness
Gloria Anzaldúa, Light in the Dark/Luz en Lo Oscuro (2015) (required book), focus on: Preface (pp. 1-8), Let us be the Healing of the Wound (pp. 9-22), Flights of the Imagination (pp. 23-46), Now Let Us Shift (pp. 117-160)
12:30 - 1:30
Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:30
General Question and Answer, Debriefing, Wrapping Up