Some devotees of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY have written to ask when I will be posting a program for the upcoming Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 7 conference.
Let me remind you that the conference has moved from its past December location to a spot in late January. So, Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 7 will take place January 27 – 29, 2027. Thus, the (draft) program will be published to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY later than it has in previous years.
Nevertheless, I can at present indicate some of the highlights of what you will find on the forthcoming program:
A workshop on solidarity
A symposium about new work on trans and disability
Panels on: alienation and ableism; epistemic oppression and disability; Black philosophers and disability; and accommodationist policies as instruments of governmentality
A roundtable on mechanisms of ableist exclusion in philosophy
As always, this upcoming edition of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series will take place entirely ONLINE and will be FREE and OPEN for everyone.
The institutional home base of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 7 is The University of Central Florida. Additional sponsors include the Philosophy Program at CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College, CUNY.
Given the retirement of Jonathan Wolff at University of Oxford and the current situation with federal funding and grants in the United States, financial support for the conference has become severely limited, which affects the availability of accessibility provisions at our conference. We therefore must seek additional nongovernmental external financial assistance to run each edition of the conference series.
In short, we would very much appreciate any monetary support that departments or individuals wish to generously offer our team. Your donation will directly support our provision of accessibility to this edition of the conference, Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 7.
Indeed, I want to pose a challenge in this regard to Canadian philosophy departments. While U.K. and American philosophy departments (and their close affiliates) have supported (and continue to support) the conference series monetarily and in other ways, Canadian departments have not done so.
Yet the students and faculty of Canadian philosophy departments, like the students and faculty of the profession at large, benefit greatly from the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series in a host of ways–present at it, learn from it, develop ideas at it, etc.
It’s time for Canadian philosophy departments (especially) to pay their dues to the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conference series!
