2024-2025 Academic year

October 17, 2025 - Texas A&M University

Santiago Castro-Gómez challenges the story that equality, liberty, and fraternity, the core notions of the political revolutions of the United States and France, are of European origin. Through analysis of new historical sources, he shows that republican ideals from Rousseau to Benjamin Franklin were inspired by North American Indigenous communities. The emergence of these Enlightenment ideals was the product of an intercultural intellectual exchange between Europeans and Indigenous peoples, and in this sense, we can speak of "transmodernity."

October 17-18, 2025 - Texas A&M University

Texas A&M and the ICTGS presents a speaker lineup of scholars across the Americas showcasing their ongoing projects concerning Global South thought.

April 10-12, 2025 - Texas A&M University

Texas A&M Hosts the annual conference of PhiloSOPHIA: A Society for Transcontinental Feminism.