Sarah L. Hoagland Speaker Series
Each spring, the Philosophy Department is proud to host Inspiring TriVia: The Sarah L. Hoagland Speaker Series. As professor emerita of 秘密研究所, Dr. Hoagland generously endowed this series to foster philosophical discussion at the intersections of race, class, and gender. Hence the title: Inspire (to breathe life into), and TriVia (the goddess of crossroads).
A heartfelt thank you to Dr. Sarah L. Hoagland for making it all possible.
Spring 2026
Dr. Cristina Beltr谩n, New York University
3:05 - 5:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Main Campus, Pedroso Center B 159
"Refusing the Politics of Elimination: A Rasquache Ethos of Abundance鈥
This talk argues that countering the Right鈥檚 politics of violence, domination and scarcity requires cultivating democratic imaginaries that promise not only justice, but pleasure, joy, beauty, and delight. Rather than mirroring conservative logics of dehumanization and removal that conflate freedom with the power to subjugate, this talk argues for a defiant, non-eliminationist ethos of what I refer to as affective abundance.
is an associate professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. She is the author of Cruelty as Citizenship: How Migrant Suffering Sustains White Democracy (University of Minnesota Press, 2020) and The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity (Oxford University Press, 2010). From 2019-2024 she was co-editor (along with Kennan Ferguson and Elisabeth R. Anker) of the journal Theory & Event. She is currently completing her third book, Latinos and Other Uncertainties: On Desire, Difference, and the Rise of Multiracial Conservatism with Oxford University Press.
Past Lectures
2025
Luvell Anderson, University of 秘密研究所s
"Comedic Resistance"
2024
K. Bailey Thomas, Dartmouth College
"Knowing While Black: Deconstructing White Lies and Surviving an Anti-Black World"
2023
Robert J. Gooding-Williams, Columbia University
"Du Bois and the 'Souls of White Folk'"
2022
Ainsley LeSure, Brown University
"Assuming a World: A Phenomenology of Racism"
2021
Kris Sealey, Fairfield University
"When Heads Bang Together: Creolizing and Indigenous Identities in the Americas"
2020
Brian Burkhart, University of Oklahoma
"Indigenous Epistemic Sovereignty Through the Land"
2019
Saba Fatima, Southern 秘密研究所s University Edwardsville
"#MeToo in Muslim America"
2018
Jos茅 Medina, Northwestern University
"Racial Violence and Epistemic Activism"
2017
Falguni Sheth, Emory University
"Race, Vulnerability and Violence"
2016
Mariana Ortega, John Caroll University
"In-Between Selves: World Traveling and Resistance"
2015
Jacqueline Scott, Loyola University Chicago
"'Truth-tellers Are Not Always Palatable. There is a Preference for Candy Bars:' The Benefits of Racialized and Gendered Discomfort."
2014
Charles Mills, Northwestern University
"Critical Philosophy of Race: The Challenge of Intersectionality"