Organized by Hannah Hilligardt, Julie Jebeile, Sapna Kumar, Futura Venuto | University of Bern We invite you to our online seminar series exploring the intersections between feminist perspectives and climate change. Together, we will engage with key feminist themes – values, trust, epistemologies, injustice, uncertainty, diversity, activism, and emotions – and examine how these shape our understanding […]
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 […]
Voices from the Rubble: Solidarity Webinar, Online, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 5pm Jerusalem/3pm London
ActforPal invites academics & allies worldwide to a webinar in solidarity with colleagues in Gaza. This is an open and inclusive space. This is an open and inclusive space where anyone can speak, reflect, and stand united in response to the ongoing devastation faced by Palestinian academics. At the heart of the session are the […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, August 20, 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 […]
CFP: Gender, Sexuality, Feminisms and Women’s Studies in the History of Philosophy (deadline: Oct 31, 2025)
Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy invites submissions for its thirty-eighth issue, which will explore how questions of gender and sexuality (and, more broadly, Women’s Studies and Feminisms) intersect with the History of Philosophy. We welcome original research articles that engage with any philosophical and literary period or tradition, as long as they advance our understanding […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Raymond Aldred
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-fourth 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 […]
How Do the PPN and DERPs Define Public Philosophy?
I felt both compelled and reluctant to email my friend Tracy Isaacs to express my dismay that she is on the program for the upcoming October conference of the Public Philosophy Network (PPN). The conference will take place in the epicenter of downtown Hamilton at a satellite campus of McMaster University that is located in […]
CFP: Artists & Philosophers as Criminals-mongrel matter (deadline: Oct. 31, 2025)
Our new open book will revolve around the tenuous concept of crime (as a limit) in light of: – the lives and works of artists & philosophers subjected to criminalisation/persecution – or who happened to become artists/philosophers as a result of criminalisation/persecution – or also the motives found in their works that will help us […]
CFP: A Philosophy of Resistance (deadline: Jul. 31, 2025)
Resistance as a response to structure has been—and will be—an answer as long as structural systems, power dynamics, social frameworks, and institutional frameworks govern bodies. Scholars like Mbembe hint at the lack of possible resistance from the living dead in his notion of Necropolitics. Giorgio Agamben discusses the impossibilities of resistance with states of bare life in Homo […]
CFP: Ramones and Philosophy-Working Title (deadline: Jul. 26, 2025)
Ramones and Philosophy: Edited By: Christopher M. Innes Abstracts of essays are requested on the 1970s to 1990s American punk rock band the Ramones. Essays will become part of chapters in an edited collection titled Ramones and Philosophy (working title). I am aiming for a publication date of December, 2026. The Ramones are having their half century anniversary this […]
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