All times given are Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) which is five hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time (EST) and eight hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time (PST). Thus, the conference begins on Wednesday, December 9th at 1:00pm GMT, 8:00am EST, and 5:00am PST. Information about registration and web-links will be made available with the final program. All sessions will be captioned.
Draft Program of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change, An Online Conference Supported by The University of Oxford
Wednesday, December 9th
1:00-1:05 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Jonathan Wolff and Shelley Tremain
1:05-1:55 Session I
Unmaking Disability: Philosophy and Social Change
Chair: Shelley Tremain
Presenter: Julie Maybee
2:05-2:55 Session II
African Communitarian Philosophy and Disability in African Contexts
Chair: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
Presenter: Elvis Imafidon
3:05-3:55 Session III
Dis/ableist Inheritance
Chair: Zara Bain
Presenter: Johnathan Flowers
3:55-4:30 Break
4:30-5:20 Session IV
Ageism, Ableism, and the Power of the Double Bind
Chair: Jane Dryden
Presenter: Christine Overall
5:30-6:20 Session V
Philosophy, The Apparatus of Disability, and the Nursing-Home Industrial Complex
Chair: Eric Winsberg
Presenter: Shelley Tremain
Thursday, December 10th
1:00-1:05 Informal Meet and Greet
1:05-1:55 Session I
Where Is Cognitive Impairment?
Chair: Bryce Huebner
Presenter: Robert Chapman
2:05-2:55 Session II
A Neurodiversity Paradigm for Moral Responsibility
Chair: Cecilea Mun
Presenter: August Gorman
3:05-3:55 Session III
Phenomenologies of Debilitation and Questions of Volition
Chair: Tamsin Kimoto
Presenter: Emily R. Douglas
3:55-4:30 Break
4:30-5:20 Session IV
Vulnerability to COVID-19 and the Moral Perniciousness of Congregate Care
Chair: Laura Cupples
Presenter: Joseph Stramondo
5:30-6:20 Session V
Captivity, Carceral Logics, and Disposability
Chair: Lissa Skitolsky
Presenter: Lori Gruen
Friday, December 11th
1:00-1:05 Informal Meet and Greet
1:05-1:55 Session I
Chronic Fatigue as Adversity Under Capitalism
Chair: Jonathan Wolff
Presenter: Michelle Ciurria
2:05-2:55 Session II
A Prolegomena to the Unconcealment of Mania and Manic Life
Chair: Jake Jackson
Presenter: Paul Lodge
3:05-3:55 Session III
“He’s Not Worth It”: The Deleterious Character of the Disabled Black Male
Chair: Jonathan Flowers
Presenter: Tommy J. Curry
3:55-4:30 Break
4:30-5:20 Session IV
COVID-19 As Crisis
Chair: Grace Cebrero
Presenter: Catherine Clune-Taylor
5:30-6:20 Session V
Risking Ourselves: The Politics and Persons of Risk
Chair: Joseph Stramondo
Presenter: Melinda Hall
6:20-7:00 Close of Conference and Conference Social
