SCHEDULE FOR TODAY’S EVENTS:

(All times shown are in EST)

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

10:00am-10:10am Welcome to #PhiDisSocCh6

Shelley Lynn Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY) and Melinda Hall (Central Florida)

10:10am-12:10pm Panel: The Politics of Identity and Identification

Caroline Christoff (Muskingum), “The Normativity of Neurodiversity: How Atypical Behavior Impacts Identity”

August Gorman (Oakland), “Am I the Problem? Reframing Perceived Burdensomeness in Suicide Prevention Ethics”

Clarissa Müller-Kosmarov (Warwick), “Phenomenal Fluctuations and Bodily Uncertainty: Toward a Phenomenology of Episodic Disability”

Chair: Jane Dryden (Mount Allison)

12:10pm-12:15pm Break

12:15pm-1:35pm Panel: Allies, Animosities, Besties, and Betrayal

Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril (Sheffield), “Politics of Urgency: A Dialogue Between Philippine Nakem Philosophy and Crip Theory”

Kristin Rodier (Athabasca), “Under Feminist Cover: Disability, Fatness, and the Politics of the Grotesque”

Chair: Tracy Isaacs (Western)

1:35pm-2:05pm Break

2:05pm-4:00pm Workshop: Forging Alliances, Philosophy of Disability and Trans Philosophy

Participants: C Dalrymple-Fraser (Toronto)

                     Gen Eickers (Osnabrueck)

                     Tamsin Kimoto (Washington at St. Louis)

                     Perry Zurn (American)

Participant Facilitator: Andrea Pitts (Buffalo)

Registration for Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6) is still open and free. To register, go here:  https://ucf.zoom.us/meeting/register/WP_M_6bNTKaaqzxlh1Ex4A

For more information about the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series, email Shelley Lynn Tremain at sltremain <at> gmail.com.