Image: The title of the conference in French across the top-half of the poster amidst two multi-coloured outstretched hands. At the bottom of the poster, my name as the keynote speaker and the address of the venue and institutional supporters. The conference program can be found here: https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2025/10/20/feminist-re-readings-of-michel-foucault-hybrid-7-8-nov-2025-sciences-po/
Feminist Re-readings of Michel Foucault, Hybrid, 7–8 Nov 2025, Sciences Po
DERPs and Their Exclusionary Conferences
It’s a big weekend for DERPs and their conferences. You may recall (as I indicated here) that DERPs is the acronym for Disabled Exclusionary Righteous Philosophers, the term that I coined to refer to philosophers who (apparently without shame) variously organize, attend, participate in, promote, or fund inaccessible– that is, exclusionary–and unsustainable philosophy conferences. Here […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Karin Boxer
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-seventh 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 […]
STAL Seminar: Luvell Anderson, “Theories of Reclamation,” Online, Oct. 27, 2025, 14:30 CET
The Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL) network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork/home), an international and interdisciplinary network whose primary aim is to promote work on slurs, pejoratives, expressives and evaluative terms from less studied languages, invites you to the first talk of the 2025-2026 academic year, given by Luvell Anderson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and entitled “Theories of Reclamation”. […]
Annette Baier, Michel Foucault, and the Future of Feminist Philosophy
A post on Bluesky drew my attention to Annette Baier’s famous article “Trust and Antitrust,” which appeared in Ethics in 1986. Many feminist philosophers (and others) regard this article as a pivotal contribution to feminist philosophy, ethics, and indeed, feminist ethics. For the longest time, I have questioned why no philosopher, and certainly no (straight?) […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, October 15, 2025
“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 “… a major contribution to our understanding of the field and the people in it.” — Vanessa Wills “I’ve learned so much about ableism in philosophy […]
Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 6 (#PhiDisSocCh6)!
As readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall, I organized the first five editions of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change conferences (links to the videos of which are available here) with the support of Jonathan Wolff under the auspices of the Alfred Landecker Chair in the School of Government at the University of Oxford. […]
September 30 is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation/Orange Shirt Day: The Story of Orange Shirt Day
Image: a circle that comprises four pairs of hands with fingers outstretched. At the centre of the circle, in capital letters, the words “EVERY CHILD MATTERS”. THE STORY OF ORANGE SHIRT DAY (from The Orange Shirt Society website) Orange Shirt Day is a legacy of the St. Joseph Mission (SJM) Residential School (1891-1981) Commemoration Project […]
(How) Should The Question “Are Trans People Delusional?” Be Addressed?
Many readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY will recognize that the title of this post includes the question that trans philosopher Talia Bettcher posed in a YouTube video of the same name which she produced and circulated on Facebook earlier in the week. When I saw the Facebook post about the video, I was worried. […]
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