Capen Lectures
2/12/26

Jorge Gracia hosted José Medina, author of The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imagination. The work won the 2012 North-American Society for Social Philosophy Book Award.

Carlos Estévez: Bottles to the Sea
3/25/16

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.

Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity
2/7/18

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.

Capen Lecture Series: Philosophy and Its History
2/12/26

Jorge Gracia hosts distinguished speakers, including Carlos Sanchez, Barry Smith, Robert Gooding Williams, Thomas D. Sullivan and Russell Pannier.

Capen Lectures: Crista Mercer
7/6/21

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.

A Collection of Individuals: The Philosophical Legacy of Jorge J. E. Gracia
1/16/21

Orgnized by Jonathan J. Sanford and William Irwin, the Fall 2019 Capen Chair Conference, brought together fifteen distinguished speakers, UB Alums, each of whom wrote their dissertation under the supervision of Professor Jorge J. E. Gracia. Learn more.

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CAS Department of Comparative Literature

CAS Department of Philosophy

Race and Ethnicity

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.

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Art and Literature

Interpretation

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.

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Art Exhibition

Visions and Imagination: Cuban American and Argentinian Art.

Binghamton University Art Museum hosted 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.

Publication Spotlight

Cuba Before Castro: A Century of Family Memoirs by Jorge J. E. Gracia

Review: "In this partly biographical and partly philosophical work, Jorge Gracia provides us with an autobiographical account of his youth in Cuba prior and right after the Cuban Revolution. I do not know of any other living philosopher who has contributed as much and who has helped as many young philosophers in the said field. With his broad background in the history of philosophy, especially Medieval and Latin American philosophy, Gracia has given us an exemplary account of how relevant philosophy could be for exploring challenging issues related to culture, ethnicity, and race. In sum, I think that unquestionably Jorge Gracia can be considered the living dean of Latin American philosophy in North America."
—Vicente Medina, professor of philosophy, Seton Hall University. 

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