I am finalizing the schedule for this year’s edition of the conference that I co-organize with Jonathan Wolff, under the auspices of The Alfred Landecker Chair in the School of Government at Oxford. The conference will take place on December 14 and 15, 1pm-6pm GMT; 8am-1pm EST; 5am-10am PST.

As in the past, the conference will take place entirely online to make the event accessible to a wide range of philosophers and other people.

This year’s Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4 conference will comprise several standard sessions, a roundtable on the mechanisms and practices that produce the exclusion of disabled philosophers and strategies to resist and subvert this exclusion, as well as a book launch of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, the groundbreaking collection that I have edited. The book includes 26 cutting-edge, original chapters; an introduction; and a comprehensive index.

The roundtable will be moderated by Melinda Hall and Johnathan Flowers and include several other disabled philosophers who will each give brief presentations. The VERY EXCITING book launch will comprise presentations by ten contributors to the book who will discuss their chapters, their motivation for the work, and so on.

As I previously noted, several copies of the book (in preferred format) will be given away as prizes during the book launch event. In addition, registrants of the conference will receive a discount code to purchase the book at its Bloomsbury webpage here, where you can also pre-order the book at a discount now! Reviews of the book by Miranda Fricker, Jasbir Puar, Tracy Isaacs, Havi Carel, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, and Barry Lam can also be found on the book’s webpage (scroll down).