The much-awaited videos of the Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 2 (#PhiDisSocCh2) conference that took place December 7-10, 2021 are now available online! If you were unable to attend the conference, missed some of the sessions, or simply want to experience again the amazing presentations that were given over the four days of the conference, […]
Philosophy of Disability at the Canadian Philosophical Association, May 17-20, 2022, Online
It is with great pleasure that I can now report that the proposal which Alex Bryant, Amandine Catala, Emily R. Douglas, Isaac Jiang, Audrey Yap, and I submitted to the Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) for a 3-hour symposium entitled “Disabling Philosophy in the Canadian Context” has been accepted for inclusion on the programme of the […]
CFP: Critical Genealogies Workshop, University of Richmond, Oct. 21-22, 2022 (deadline: Mar. 31, 2022)
Fourth Meeting of the Critical Genealogies Workshop Call for Papers University of Richmond, Richmond, VA October 21–22, 2022 (with an opening night gathering on Thursday, Oct 20; workshop sessions on Friday & Saturday) The Critical Genealogies Workshop provides a space of collaboration and experimentation for scholars who deploy genealogy in order to investigate problematizations, possibilizations, […]
New Publication: Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic, Special Issue of International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies – Open Access!
I am delighted that Philosophies of Disability and the Global Pandemic, the special issue of International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies that I guest edited, has (finally) been published! The issue (and journal) is open access. In addition to my introduction to the issue and my article on philosophy of disability; conceptual engineering; and the […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, January 19th, at 8 a.m. EST
“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 […]
Philosophy and Theory of Disability Books at a 35% Off Discount with Free Shipping
In case you don’t yet have a copy of my monograph, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, or a copy of the second edition of my edited collection, Foucault and the Government of Disability, you can now pick up copies of them for 35% off with no charge for shipping. All of the books published […]
Some of Our Favourite Posts of 2021
This post provides a retrospective of some of the most popular BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY posts from 2021. The Dialogues on Disability interviews for the year were also crowd favourites. You can find the archive of the Dialogues on Disability series interviews here. Each of the series interviews from the past year will be featured in the […]
Kant and Racial Discrimination, Ruhr- University Bochum, Feb. 24-25, 2022
Kant’s discriminatory statements and implications in some of his works, such as on physical geography, anthropology, and especially in his continuous theory of race, might shock those who are rather acquainted with or inspired by his prominent egalitarian universalism in moral and, in part, legal philosophy. Kant’s defense of racial hierarchy, his condoning of race-based […]
CFP: Society Must Be Inoculated: COVID-19, Governance, Propaganda, UC-Irvine, May 20, 2022 (deadline: Mar. 11, 2022)
Since COVID-19’s first infection, the virus has mutated. Each expected virological mutation summons increased governmental and medical surveillance, received both positively and suspiciously by the public. The instituted state of exception was most aggressively diagnosed by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Agamben, however, is not alone in theorizing the pandemic. Thinkers like Slavoj Zizek, Jean-Luc […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Raymond Aldred Redux
With Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 2 just moments behind us, it has been a busy month for disabled philosophers. So, I decided that this month we should be reinvigorated with Raymond Aldred’s fabulous interview from December 2019. Enjoy! ___________________________________________________ Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the fifty-seventh installment of […]
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