I have copied below the preliminary program for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 which takes place online December 11-13, 2024, 13:00-18:00 GMT/UK Time (=ET+5). Information about registration for this event will appear here soon. Check back often!

(All times in GMT/UK Time=ET +5)

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11

13:00-13:05     INTRODUCTIONS

Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford) and Shelley Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)

13:05-14:45     AFROCENTRIC DISABILITY

Elvis Imafidon (SOAS), “Disability in Africa, Corporeal Hermeneutics and Disruptive Agency”

Julie E. Maybee (Lehman College/CUNY Graduate Center), “African Philosophy of Disability and Disabled People’s Liberation”

Chair: Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

14:45- 14:50   BREAK

14:50-16:30     DISABLED AND CLASS-CONSCIOUS: DISABILITY AND MARXISM

Robert Chapman (Durham), “Mad History from Below: The Significance of the Ranters”

Mich Ciurria (Missouri at St. Louis), “Capitalism, Crisis and Chronic Fatigue”

Chair: Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)

16:30-16:40   BREAK

16:40-18:00    ROUNDTABLE — AGAINST MERIT: HOW DISABLED STUDENTS SUBVERT INTELLIGENCE ESSENTIALISM

Participants: Alex Bryant (UBC), Clarissa Müller-Kosmarov (Warwick), and Cal Nelson (Duquesne)

Facilitators: Will Conway (Stonybrook) and T. Virgil Murthy (Carnegie Mellon)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12

13:00-13:05 MEET AND GREET

Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford) and Shelley Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)

13:05-15:30    NOUVEAU NEURO

Amandine Catala (Québec à Montréal) and Jane Dryden (Mount Allison), “Shifting the Vulnerability Economy: Autism and Unmasking”

August Gorman (Oakland), “Discursive Injustice and Neurodivergent Behaviour: Reclaiming Agent-Meaning”

Abigail Gosselin (Regis), “Mental Illness Stigma and Devaluation”

Chair: Shay Welch (Spelman)

15:30-15:35     BREAK

15:35-18:00     RECONCEIVING ABLEIST KNOWLEDGES AND VALUES, TOGETHER

Agnès Berthelot-Raffard (York), “Reconceptualizing Knowledge: A Pathway to Disability Justice in Academia”

C. Dalrymple-Fraser (Toronto), “Crumpled Virtue”

Corinne Lajoie (Western), “Fearing Ableism, Together”

Chair: Shelley Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13

13:00-13:05     MEET AND GREET

Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford) and Shelley Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)

13:05-15:30     EATING POLITICS

Megan Dean (Michigan State), “An Anti-Dieting Defense of Dietary Restraint: Combatting Fatphobia Without Ableism about Eating”

Lori Gruen (Wesleyan), “Eating Disabled Animals”

Kristin Rodier (Athabasca), “Fatness and the Abnormal: Disciplining Bodies in the Age of Ozempic”

Chair: Tracy Isaacs (Western)

15:30-15:40     BREAK

15:40-17:50     ROUNDTABLE — SITUATING DISABILITY: EXCLUSION IN PHILOSOPHY AND BEYOND

Participants: Emily R. Douglas (Mount Allison), Gen Eickers (Bayreuth), Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril (Sheffield), Stephanie C. Jenkins (Oregon State), and Andrea J. Pitts (Buffalo)

Facilitators: Johnathan Flowers (Cal State-Northridge) and Melinda C. Hall (Stetson)

17:50-18:00     CLOSING REMARKS

Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford) and Shelley Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)