The final draft of the program for the 2023 RRS Meeting is now available (updated, Nov 22). Download a PDF version here. Any questions or changes can be sent to Susan Dieleman at info@richardrortysociety.org.
Third Meeting
November 30 – December 2, 2023
Universidad de Guadalajara
Guadalajara, MEX
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30
| 12:30-5:00 | REGISTRATION (BUILDING H) | |
| 12:30-1:00 | WELCOME REMARKS (AUDITORIUM 1) | |
| 1:00-3:00 | AUDITORIUM 1 | AUDITORIUM 2 |
| Rorty and Brandom Chair: Sofia Melendez Fred Copley (Independent Scholar): Rorty’s Euthyphro Dilemma Susan Dieleman (University of Lethbridge): Rorty, Brandom, and the Normative Status of Women Gerardo Allende (Universidad Modelo, Mérida): Beyond Conservatism and Occurrence: Towards a Cultural Gender Politics | Rorty and the Post-Marxist Left Chair: Martin Mueller Federico Penelas (UBA/UNMdP/IIF-SADAF-CONICET): Pragmatism, Skepticism, and Politics: Notes on Montaigne’s Presence in the Rorty-Unger-Laclau Debate Jonathan Reyna (Universidad de Guadalajara): In-Between Rorty and Laclau: Towards a Hopeful Pragmatism for the Latin-American Left José de Jesús Mena (Universidad de Guadalajara): Is Rorty’s Liberalism Really an Experiment that is Worth a Try? Marxist Criticisms of Richard Rorty’s Liberalism | |
| 3:00-3:10 | BREAK | |
| 3:10-4:30 | AUDITORIUM 1 | AUDITORIUM 2 |
| Democratic Epistemology Chair: Fred Copley Matt Kundert (Pima Community College): Antiauthoritarianism and a Decent Respect Martin Mueller (Volkshochschule Muenchen): The Liberal Ironist after Babel: Rortyan Fallibilism and Conversability as Resources in Times of a Fragmented Public Sphere | Narratives & Ethics Chair: Federico Penelas Jim Hersh (Salve Regina University): Sappho’s Purple Stain: Rortyan Poeticized Culture on the Ground Joshua J. Taylor (Independent Scholar): Radu Jude’s Rortyan Cinema: Historical Contingency, Ironist Politics, and Achieving Solidarity | |
| 4:30-5:00 | BREAK | |
| 5:00-6:30 | AUDITORIUM 1 |
| KEYNOTE ADDRESS Ramón del Castillo (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) The Return to Ideologies? Rorty’s Legacy and the Collapse of Social Democracy | |
| 7:30- ?? | WELCOME TOAST @ LOVE IT HOTEL |
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1
| 9:00-12:00 | REGISTRATION | ||
| 9:00-10:20 | AUDITORIUM 1 | AUDITORIUM 2 | CLASSROOM H32 |
| Philosophy & Democracy Chair: Nicholas Smith Bryan Vescio (High Point University): What Good is Philosophy to Democracy? Rorty on the Political Responsibility of Intellectuals Mauro Santelli (UBA/IIF0SADAF-CONICET): A Glimpse at Rorty’s Synoptic Vision: Some Comments on the Clash Between Philosophy and Democracy | Linguistic & Political Change Chair: Paul Showler Rebeca Perez Leon (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM): Vocabularies and Semantic Revolutionaries Sergio Armando Gallegos Ordorico (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY): Rortyan Solidarity in Jose Revueltas’ Carceral Novels | Utopian Imaginings Chair: Jesús Aldalay Álvarez Mauricio Reyes (Universidad de Guadalajara): Rorty and Gramsci at the After Party Fernando Lopes (Boston University): Rorty’s Romanticism: The End of Philosophy as the Beginning of Hope | |
| 10:20-10:30 | BREAK | ||
| 10:30-11:50 | AUDITORIUM 1 | AUDITORIUM 2 | CLASSROOM H32 |
| Confronting Contemporary Challenges with Rorty Chair: Sergio Armando Gallegos Ordorico Tracy Llanera & Nicholas H. Smith (University of Connecticut): A Culture of Egotism: Rorty and Higher Education Brendan Hogan (New York University): What Kind of Freedom Takes Care of Truth? | Rorty in PMN Chair: Mauricio Reyes Paul Showler (South Dakota School of Mines and Technology): Antipodea as State of nature: Rorty’s Genealogy of our Mental Vocabulary Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi (University of Bologna): “Materialism without Identity” (PMN 92): Rorty’s Antirepresentational Materialism | National & International Politics Chair: Bryan Vescio Jesús Aldalay Álvarez (UNAM): Pragmatism without Historicity? The Role of Heidegger’s Historicity in the Making of a National Identity in Rorty’s Achieving Our Country Paa Kweku Quansah (University of Ghana): Achieving our Humanity: Some Useful Reminders from Rorty’s Political Thought for 21st Century Global Politics | |
| 12:00-1:00 | GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING (AUDITORIUM 1) view agenda here | ||
| 1:00-2:30 | LUNCH ON YOUR OWN | ||
| 2:30-3:50 | AUDITORIUM 1 | AUDITORIUM 2 | CLASSROOM H32 |
| Truth & Realism Chair: Gerardo Allende Hacer Korkut (Middle East Technical University): Rorty’s Treatment of Truth as Dogma Catherine Legg (Deakin University): Semiotic Platonic Realism | Intersubjectivity & Justice Chair: Rebeca Perez Leon Nalliely Hernández & Melissa Amezcua (Universidad de Guadalajara): Rorty’s Redescription as Resistance to Epistemic Injustice: The Case of Femicide Oscar Fernando Carbajal (Universidad de Guadalajara): What Does Intersubjectivity Imply? A Comparative Analysis Between Rorty and Habermas | ||
| 3:50-4:00 | BREAK | ||
| 4:00-6:00 | AUDITORIUM 1 | ||
| HOMAGE TO RICHARD RORTY & RICHARD BERNSTEIN: TWO FRIENDS CHALLENGING TRADITIONS Chair: Susan Dieleman Chris Voparil (Union Institute & University): The Vicissitudes of the Bernstein-Rorty Relationship María Pía Lara(Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana): The Great Collaboration and Friendship of the TWO Dicks | |||
| 6:00-? | DINNER ON YOUR OWN | ||
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2
| 9:00-10:20 | AUDITORIUM 1 | AUDITORIUM 2 |
| Crossing Traditions & Boundaries Chair: María Pía Lara Raúl Homero López Espinosa (Universidad Veracruzana): A Rortyan Reading of Ch’ixi Epistemology Eduardo Alvarado (Universidad de Guadalajara): Rorty and the Inclusion of Non-European Philosophies in Academia | Naturalism & Politics Chair: Catherine Legg Mogan J. Ramesh (University of Munich): From Darwin to Democracy: Richard Rorty’s Evolutionary Politics Jorge Armando Reyes (UNAM): Richard Rorty’s Critique of the Justification Imperative in Contemporary Culture |
With special thanks to:
Universidad de Guadalajara
Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humidades
Departamento de Filosofia
The Richard Rorty Society 