International Conference:
Dewey in Mexico

January 12-13, 2012
9:30 - 14:00 • 16:00 - 20:00
Sala Fernando Salmerón

P R O G R A M A

12 Thursday 13 Friday
OPENING REMARKS

9:30 - Gregory Pappas, Ramón del Castillo & Guillermo Hurtado

A. THE DEWEY-TROTSKY RELATION

10:00 - Richard Bernstein, New School for Social Research, New York, USA
Dewey's Encounter with Trotsky

Larry Hickman, Dewey Center-Southern Illinois Carbondale University, USA
Dewey and Trotsky in Mexico: Truth is not a Bourgeois Ideal

12:00 - Guillaume Garreta, French University College (Moscow State University) and Paris-1 University
Their Dewey and Ours: The Meaning of the Controversy with Trotsky about Means and Ends

David Granger, David, SUNY-Geneso, NY, USA
The Dewey Commission: Art in Inquiry

Kevin Decker, Southern Eastern Washington University, USA
The Permanent Trotskyist Deposit in the Thought of John Dewey

B. ARTS, TECHNOLOGY and RELIGION

16:00 - Terrance Macmullan, University of Washington, USA
Dividing Walls and Unifying Murals: Diego Rivera and John Dewey on the Restoration of Art within Life

Chris Tirres, DePaul University, USA
Dewey and Mexican Religion, Then and Now: Rethinking the Place of Education and Aesthetics

Nalliely Hernández, Conacyt-MCINN-UNED, México-España
John Dewey''s Technological Perspective and the Mexican Reality

C. THE RECEPTION AND TRANSLATION OF DEWEY'S WORK BY MEXICAN AND SPANISH PHILOSOPHERS

18:00 - Laura Angélica Moya, UAM-Azcapotzalco, México
José Medina Echavarría and John Dewey in Mexico: Sociology as a Concrete Social Science, 1939-1946

Ramón Del Castillo, UNED-Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, España
Made in USA Metaphysics? John Dewey, José Gaos and some other intricate Mexican stories

Santiago Rey, New School for Social Research, NY, USA
Hermeneutic Migrations: José Gaos on Dewey and Heidegger

D. DEWEY, MEXICAN CULTURE-EDUCATION

10:00 - Marco Antonio Calderón, Centro de Estudios Antropológicos, El Colegio de Michoacán, México.
John Dewey en México. Experimentos sociales y educación rural

Rafael Farfán, UAM-Azcapotzalco, México
John Dewey y la estación experimental de Carapan: balance de la primera recepción del pragmatismo en México (1929-1933)

Philippe Schaffhauser, Centro de Estudios Rurales, El Colegio de Michoacán, México
El Carapan indigenista de Moisés Sáenz como bosquejo de una experiencia democrática

12:00 - Ana Paola Romo López-Cruz, Universidad Panamericana, México
Educational Deweyan Reforms in Mexico

Nathan Crick & David Tarvin, David, Louisiana State University, USA
A Pedagogy of Freedom: John Dewey and Experimental Rural Education

Deron Boyles, Georgia State University, USA
John Dewey's Influence in Mexico: Rural Schooling, "Community", and the Vitality of Context

E. RETROSPECTIVE AND PROSPECTIVE

16:00 - Kyle Greenwalt, Michigan State University, USA
Dewey in Mexico: Nation-Building, Secularism and the Schools

Gregory Pappas, Texas A&M University, USA
Was the Mexican Revolution a "good" Revolution?

A Deweyean Evaluation

Guillermo Hurtado, IIF-UNAM, México
México con sentido: Dewey and the Reconstruction of Democracy

CONCLUDING REMARKS: A TASK BEFORE US

18:00 - Open debate among participants about questions and issues raised
through the Conference. Ideas about new encounters and conferences.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Gregory Fernando Pappas - Department of Philosophy Texas A & M University, USA
goyo_pappas@sbcglobal.net, g-pappas@tamu.edu

Guillermo Hurtado Pérez - Director Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas
UNAM, México, D.F., gmhp@servidor.unam.mx

Ramón del Castillo (UNED)
Nalliely Hernández Cornejo (CONACYT) - Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación de España
FFI2008-03310/FISO, nallie3112@hotmail.com, rcastillo@fsof.uned.es