As I recently pointed out on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, October 15, 2026, will mark the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth, with plans underway to commemorate Foucault in a variety of journal issues, conferences, workshops, edited collections, and monographs. As I noted in the previous post, I will contribute to some of these memorials. In the […]
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 […]
Still Apropos: Nondisabled People Always Win the “Hunger Games” of Academic Publishing and Tenure
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY blogger Mich Ciurria’s post below from October 2022 is still apropos and even more relevant: in 2023/2024, there were no jobs advertised with philosophy of disability/disability studies as an AOS, despite the fact that critical analyses of disability flourish across the university. _________________________________________________ This year, only one department lists “disability studies” amongst its […]
CFA: Thinking Trans//Trans Thinking Conference 2025, Hybrid, Mar. 27-28, 2025 (deadline: Nov. 15, 2024)
Dates: Thursday, March 27th and Friday, March 28th, 2025 Location: Lafayette College in Easton, PA & Hybrid/Zoom Call for Proposals Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024 Notified for acceptance by Dec. 1, 2024 Keynote Speakers: Dr. Trish Salah (Queen’s University) and Dr. Nathan DuFord (Smith College) Trans philosophy, broadly construed, provides a space where trans people can think together […]
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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 […]
Taking Indigenous Knowledges Seriously, University of Johannesburg/Zoom, Aug. 13-14, 2024
The African Centre for Epistemology and Philosophy of Science (ACEPS) at the University of Johannesburg invites you to: Taking Indigenous Knowledges Seriously When: Tuesday 13th– Wednesday 14th August 2024 Where: 11th Floor Boardroom, UJ on Empire, Johannesburg and https://zoom.us/j/97369538480 Programme: Tuesday 13th August 09:00 – 09:20 Welcome 09:20 – 09:35 Introductions (Veli Mitova) 09:40 – 10:35 Jeanine Ntihirageza […]
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 […]
New Voices in the History of Philosophy: Latin American Women Philosophers, Aug. 28, 2024, Online
This edition of the New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy is organized by Pedro Pricladnitzky, Research Associate at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, and is dedicated to Women Philosophers from Latin America. The works of Latin American women philosophers as well as theorists from related disciplines stand […]
Foucault as the First Disabled Philosopher of Disability (My Love Letter to Foucault)
If you are a reader/follower/scholar/fan of Michel Foucault, you no doubt know that 2024 is the 40th anniversary of Foucault’s death on June 25, 1984. Even if you are not a reader/follower/scholar/fan of Foucault but you are connected on social media in certain ways or at least spend a certain amount of your time there, […]
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