Miguel Gualdron Ramirez
Visiting Professor in Philosophy
Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez’s work focuses on the interconnection between history,politics, and aesthetics in Latin America and the Caribbean, and philosophical attempts at approaching these topics collectively. He is particularly interested in aesthetic theories and practices (such as literature and film) of this region of the world that critique colonial forms of self-understanding and self-expression and contribute to new epistemologies of resistance. His work investigates a European philosophical tradition of political thought and aesthetics as challenged by theexistence of the Americas.
Education
PhD| DePaul University| 2019
MA| Universidad Nacional de Colombia| 2009
BA| Universidad Nacional de Colombia| 2005
Courses Taught
Oxford College of Emory University
Introduction to Ethics
Social and Political Philosophy
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy
Latin American and Caribbean Philosophy
DePaul University, Department of Philosophy
Philosophy and its issues (Introduction to Philosophy)
Philosophy and Film
Philosophy and Modern Society
Multiculturalism in the US
Sex and Gender
DePaul University, College of Education
Philosophical Issues in Education
Publications
(2019) “To ’stay where you are’ as a decolonial gesture: Glissant’s philosophy of Caribbean history in the context of Césaire and Fanon.” In Jack Daniel Webb, Rod Westmaas, Maria del Pilar Kaladeen, and William Tantam, Memory, Migration and (De)colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond (Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 2019, forthcoming).
(2019) “Transversality as disruption and connection: On the possibilities and limits of using the framework of trauma in Glissant’s philosophy of Caribbean history”, in Philosophical Readings (2019), special issue “Philosophy in Colombia.” (forthcoming)
(2018) “Resistance and expanse in Nuestra América: a contemporary analysis of José Martí in light of Édouard Glissant and Gloria Anzaldúa.” in diacritics. (Vol. 46. No. 2, 2018)
(2016) “Pensar con las manos. Otra mirada a las relaciones entre arte y memoria en la obra de Óscar Muñoz” [To think with our hands. Another view at the relationships between art and memory in Óscar Muñoz’s works], in Resistencias al olvido. Memoria y arte en Colombia. Ediciones Uniandes, Bogotá, 2016., pp. 49-78
Presentations
(2019) “L’antillanité as Poetics of Caribbean Spatiality.” SPEP. Pittsburg, PA (USA)
(2019) “The promise of Manumission: externality and deferral of liberation in Colombia (1810-1852).” Philosophies of Liberation Encuentro. CASA 0101 and Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
(2019) “Ruptures of/with History: Two Novels by Édouard Glissant.” American Conparative Literature Association, Georgetown, Washington, DC. (USA)
(2018) “Common Places: Archipelagic and Continental Thoughts on Interdisplinarity”. Colloque GLISSANT « L’éclat et l’obscur », Fort-de-France (Martinique)
(2018) “Remarks to Mark Alznauer’s ‘Poetic Theodicy in Wordsworth and Hegel.’” Chicago Area Consortium in German Philosophy Workshop, German Philosophical Aesthetics, DePaul University, Chicago (USA).
(2017) “Un comienzo abisal de las Antillas: Historia y poética en el pensamiento de Édouard Glissant”. Coloquio de Filosofía, Universidad de los Andes. Bogotá (Colombia)