May 1st, 2026
Talk: “Taking the Struggle for Justice Into the Community”
Jim Harrington, Civil rights lawyer who for ten years with the South Texas Project, where the major Farm Workers and Grand Jury lawsuits originated.
September 21st, 2023
Talk: “Subjects of Healing: Gloria Anzaldúa on Identity, Difference, and Community”
Dr. Michael J. Monahan, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis
November 14th, 2019
Talk: “Building a Green New Deal”
Andrés Bernal, Phd Candidate in Public Engagement at the New School for Social Research, NYC
Alumnus, Philosophy Department, UTPA
November 1st, 2016
Talk: “Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Bureaucracy, Gender and Mizrahi Ultra-nationalism”
Dr. Smadar Lavie, Visiting Scholar in Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley; and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century, University College Cork.
October 13, 2016
Talk: “Shamanic Bodies: Alcoff, Anzaldúa, Kusch, and Andean Corporealities”
Dr. Omar Rivera, Department of Philosophy and Race and Ethnic Studies Program at Southwestern University.
April 6, 2015
Talk: “Vulnerable Bodies and Environmental Justice in the Murals of Juana Alicia”
Dr. Julie Avril Minich, Department of English and Mexican American & Latina/a Studies at the University of Texas, Austin
March 24, 2015
Talk: “Redefining Latino Masculinities through Anzaldúa’s Conocimiento and Collaborative Testimonio”
Dr. Aída Hurtado, Chair of the Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara & alumna of our legacy institution UTPA
November 21, 2014
Talk: “Loving Sideways/Living Beyond Borders: Decolonizing Space in Xicana and Latina Feminisms.”
Dr. Pedro Di Pietro, Ethnic Studies at the University of California Berkeley
November 22, 2014
Workshop: “La Jotería: Celebrating Queerness and Latinidad in the 21st Century”
Dr. Pedro Di Pietro, Ethnic Studies at the University of California Berkeley
March 21, 2013
Talk: “The Colonial, Catholic Body: Identity and Self-Relation in Mexican and Irish Diasporas.”
Dr. Jennifer McWeeny, Department of Philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
March 29, 2012
What is the Transmodern Condition? Reflections on the Braceros Program
Dr. Sebastian Purcell, Philosophy Department at SUNY Courtland
March 3, 2011
Panel: “The Many Borders of the Valley: First Impressions.”
Dr. Mariana Alessandri, Dr. Cynthia Paccacerqua, & Dr. Alexander Stehn, Faculty in the Department of History and Philosophy at the University of Texas – Pan American
February 17, 2011
Talk: “Beauvoir and Nancy on Touching and Borders”
Dr. Christopher Lauer, Department of Philosophy at Indiana University of Pennsylvania
October 7, 2010
Talk: “Post Cold War Borders: Linking the Postcolonial and Postsocialist”
Dr. Jennifer Suchland, Slavic and East European Languages and Literatures at Ohio State University
February 4, 2010
Talk: “Queers Have No Passports: On the Floating Borders of Nationalism”
Dr. Shannon Winnubst, Department of Philosophy at Ohio State University
March 25, 2010
Talk: “Hermeneutic Dimensions of Recognition”
Dr. Theodore George, Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University
November 19, 2009
Talk: “Heroes, Scapegoats and ‘Good’ Liberals: The Complicated Operations of Race in Post-Obama America”
Dr. Leigh Johnson, Department of Philosophy at Rhodes College
October 9, 2009
Talk: “Being in the Border is an Opportunity and Not a Fall from Grace”
Dr. Gregory Pappas, Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University
February 2009
Talk: “Pure Pleasure and Abstract Art in Plato’s Philebus“
Dr. Ryan T. Drake, Department of Philosophy at Fairfield University
Dr. Sara Brill, Department of Philosophy at Fairfield University
December 5, 2008
Talk: “Authority, Evidence, and Second-Personal Reasons for Belief”
Dr. Ben McMyler, Department of Philosophy at Texas A&M University
October 2008
Talk: “Torture and the Production of bare life: Extrajudicial Measures in the War on Terror”
Dr. Jeffrey D. Gower, Doctoral Candidate in Philosophy at Villanova University
Prior to the Official Naming of the Series (see Our Story)
November 2007
Talk: What is Wrong with Meno?
Dr. Jesse Bailey, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sacred Heart University
Anzaldúa Speaker Series in Philosophy 
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