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 […]
This Settler State Is Not the 51st State of America
CFP: Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative Symposium, Online, May 30, 2025 (deadline: Mar. 21, 2025)
The Policing, Policy, and Philosophy Initiative (3PI) will host its second symposium on May 30, 2025. This virtual symposium will feature research at the intersection of policing and philosophy, with a particular interest in work that speaks to policy debates. All philosophical work on policing is welcome. Potential topics include but are not limited to […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, March 19, 2025, at 8 am ET
“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 […]
Who Is the Subject of the Left?
At the outset of Foucault’s important 1982 interview/text “The Subject and Power,” he provides a sweeping overview of the motivation for his work to that point, making the somewhat astonishing claim that the impetus for his endeavours over 20 years was not (as widely believed) “to analyze the phenomena of power, nor to elaborate the […]
CFEOI: CFP: Susan Stryker and Trans Studies, A Special Issue of Australian Feminist Studies (deadline: Feb. 16, 2025; May 1, 2025)
Expressions of interest are sought for contributions to a planned Special Issue (SI) of Australian Feminist Studies devoted to the topic of Susan Stryker and transgender studies. When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (2024) showcases the essential writings of Susan Stryker from the 1990s to the present; her scholarly work, her documentaries, zines, newsletters, etc. This SI invites […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Lori Gruen
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and nineteenth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for […]
CFA: Erkko Conference: The Diverse Academy, Helsinki/Online, Jun. 12-13, 2025 (deadline: Mar. 14, 2025)
Erkko Conference: The Diverse Academy12–13 June 2025, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced StudiesDeadline for submission: 14 MarchOrganized by Helen Beebee, Jane and Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society This conference will explore issues relating to diversity within academia. We welcome papers on that broad topic, from a theoretical or practical perspective (or both), that […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, February 19, at 8 am ET
“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 […]
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