SCHEDULE FOR TODAY’S EVENTS:
(All times shown are in EST)
Thursday, January 29, 2026
10:00am-10:05am Welcome to Day Two of #PhiDisSocCh6
Shelley Lynn Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)
10:05am-12:05pm Panel: On the Birth of Foucault and the Abnormal
Will Conway (Stony Brook), “’To Kill the Vanquished’: Rousseau at the Threshold of Biopolitics”
Stephanie Jenkins (Oregon State), “On Being Incorrigible”
T. Virgil Murthy (Carnegie Mellon), “Addiction as a Way of Life: Foucault, Friendship, and Possibilities of Disabled Closeness”
Chair: Shelley Lynn Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)
12:05pm-12:10pm Break
12:10pm-1:30pm Panel: Eugenic Histories and Presents
Tommy Curry (Edinburgh), “Not of MAN: The Ethnological Foundations of Racial Difference in the 19th Century”
John Henry Reilly (Duquesne), “American Eugenics, Early Psychometrics, and the Formation of Learning Disabilities”
Chair: Erica Bigelow (Washington)
1:30pm-2:00pm Break
2:00pm-4:00pm Symposium: Virtual Power: AI, Ableism, Racism, and Fascism
Raymond Aldred (McGill), “Confessions of an Indigenous AI Frankenstein”
Mich Ciurria (Public Philosopher), “Technofascism, Crisis Epistemology, and Disaster Ableism”
Johnathan Flowers (California State, Northridge), “Technoableism and the Curative Imaginary”
Damien Williams (North Carolina at Charlotte), “Fascist Bullshit: How ‘Generative AI’ Enacts and Enables Authoritarianism and Eugenics”
Chair: Fintan Mallory (Durham)
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.
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