CFA: Disability and Rights: The Possibilities and Limits of Rights Discourse under Neoliberalism, Zoom, 13-14 Jun. UK Time (deadline: 11 Apr., 2025, 5 pm UK Time)

This is a two half-day conference organised by Disability Law and Social Justice Stream of the Socio-Legal Studies Association and Marxism and Disability Network scholars, and kindly funded by the Socio-Legal Studies Association and University of Leicester. The conference will take place online (using the Zoom platform) on: ● Friday, 13th June 2025, 12:30-17:30 BST […]

Philosophy of Disability: The Difference That It Makes, Beacon College, Apr. 6, 2025

[The text below comprises the keynote address that I gave (via Zoom) to the Dimensions of Difference Conference at Beacon College yesterday. The conference was organized by Professor Zachary Isrow who teaches in the Humanities and Philosophy Department at Beacon College.] ________________________________________________________________________________ Philosophy of Disability: The Difference that It Makes The presentation that I will […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, April 16, 2025, at 8am ET (Corrected)

“I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. …  I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]

On Jason Stanley On Fascism and Organizing Inaccessible Conferences

My mother has been in the hospital for the past month, in and out of intensive care; so, my time to post on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY has been constrained. In addition, I have been writing responses to the questions that Robert Chapman and Mich Ciurria pose to me in the interview that they have conducted with […]

2025 Latina/x Feminisms Roundtable, Univ. of Buffalo/Online, Apr. 4-5, 2025

2025 LATINA/X FEMINISMS ROUNDTABLE April 4-5th 2025 University at Buffalo, NY (both in-person & via Zoom) ***All participants are expected to attend all sessions (virtually or in-person) of the Roundtable*** Invited Speakers: Taína Asili (she/her/ella) Kristie Soares (she/they) Emma Velez (she/they) This year’s theme for the Latina/x Feminisms Roundtable is Desorden Aesthetics: Translocal Art and Communitiesand we invite engagement […]

Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): Hypatia’s Ableist Legacy, co-authored with Nora Berenstain

This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the historical legacy of ableism at Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. To open our discussion in the post, consider an excerpt from Shelley’s introduction to The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. The introduction, which is entitled “Situating Philosophy of Disability in/out of Philosophy,” offers a summary […]

Symposium on the Philosophy of Neurodiversity and Mental Health, Oakland University, Apr. 1, 2025

Organized by August Gorman Keynote Speaker: Robert Chapman 10:00am: Abigail Gosselin (Regis), “Internalized Mental Illness Stigma and Its Harms” 11:00am: Caro Flores (UC Santa Cruz), “Reclaiming Rationality: What the Neurodiversity Paradigm Requires of Epistemology” 2:00pm: C. Dalrymple-Fraser (Toronto), “mad dis/appearings” 7:00pm: Keynote: Robert Chapman (Durham) “Mad Pride in Revolutionary England: Reinterpreting the Ranters” [live ASL interpretation provided] […]

Coming Up for Feminist Philosophy of Disability!

On April 6, I will give a keynote address (via Zoom) entitled “Philosophy of Disability: The Difference That It Makes” to the Dimensions of Difference Conference at Beacon College, in Leesburg, Florida. The organizer of the conference is Zachary Isrow and the other keynote speaker at the conference will be Robert Chapman. Next month’s interview […]