A Collection of Individuals: The Philosophical Legacy of Jorge J. E. Gracia
Join us for the 2019 Capen Chair Conference, Friday and Saturday, October 18 and 19. The event brings together fifteen distinguished speakers, UB Alums, each of whom wrote their dissertation under the supervision of Professor Jorge J. E. Gracia. On Saturday, SUNY Press will host a book launch to mark the publication of Gracia's intellectual memoir, With a Diamond in My Shoe: A Philosopher's Search for Identity in America.
1/7/20 Learn more about the event
Fall 2016 Lecture Series: Philosophy and Its History
Jorge Gracia hosts distinguished speakers, including Carlos Sanchez, Barry Smith, Robert Gooding Williams, Thomas D. Sullivan and Russell Pannier.
6/18/19 Access lecture audio, photos, and more.
Capen Lectures 2016
Our students have opportunites to meet distinguished speakers, such as Christia Mercer, Professor, Columbia University. In Fall 2016, Mercer delivered the annual three-part lecture series hosted by Jorge Gracia. You can access Mercer's lectures on this website. Learn more.
Capen Lectures, Fall 2017
Fall 2017, Jorge Gracia welcomes José Medina, whose latest book, The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imagination, received the 2012 North-American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award.
Learn more about the book published by Oxford University Press
Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity
Jorge J. E. Gracia and His Critics — The debate, on the nature of race and ethnicity in relation to nationality, linguistic rights, and Affirmative Action, opens new paths of inquiry.
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Carlos Estévez: Bottles to the Sea
The book serves as a source for the exploration of many dimensions of the human experience in relation to other beings, ranging from machines and blueprints to mollusks and plants.
SUNY Series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
The Samuel P. Capen Chair was created in 1998, when Jorge J. E. Gracia was appointed first chair, to support research initiatives and interdisciplinary activities in the humanities and the arts, particularly in underrepresented areas. Under his direction, the Capen Chair has sponsored numerous publications, conferences, and art exhibitions including Cuban Art Outside Cuba, Painting Borges, and Estévez: Images of Thought, among others.
Department of Comparative Literature
Conference October 18 & 19, 2019
This fall the Capen Chair will host a conference in conjunction with the launch of a new book by Jorge J. E. Gracia, for SUNY Press.
The conference, organized by UB Alums William Irwin and Jonathan J. Sanford, will feature presentations by Gracia's former students.
Learn more about the events.
Visions and Imagination: Cuban American and Argentinian Art.
On January 31, 2019, the Binghamton University Art Museum opened the exhibition, Visions and Imagination: Cuban American and Argentinian Art. Many pieces in this collection were donated by Jorge and Norma Gracia, each of whom spoke to the audience about some of the works they permanently gifted to the museum. Learn more.
A particularly significant topic for the Capen Chair within art and literature is interpretation, that is, the understanding of art through literature, and vice versa, and their implications for the philosophy of race, ethnicity, and Hispanic/Latino identity.
9/15/17 Cuban Art Outside Cuba
8/28/15 Painting Borges
8/27/15 Estévez: Images of Thought
2/17/16 Estévez: Bottles to the Sea
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Hispanics/Latinos
The topics related to race and ethnicity include philosophy, art, and literature. The foci are the philosophy of race, ethnicity, nationality, and the particular issues that come up in the context of Hispanics/Latinos in the United States and Latin America.
7/29/19 Publications
7/15/15 Race/Ethnicity/Nationality
7/15/15 Hispanic/Latino Issues
8/27/15 Hispanic/Latino/Latin-American
SUNY Press Book Series
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Samuel P. Capen Chair
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