Climate change presents a major challenge for our time. It is expected to greatly increase global temperatures, “natural” disasters, political instability, war, disease, drought, and famine in this century. Its impacts are far-reaching and distributed unequally. In this conference, we aim to make progress toward addressing climate change, both by addressing the philosophical challenges it […]
Draft Program of Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change, An Online Conference Supported by The University of Oxford, Dec. 9-11, 2020
All times given are Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) which is five hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time (EST) and eight hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time (PST). Thus, the conference begins on Wednesday, December 9th at 1:00pm GMT, 8:00am EST, and 5:00am PST. Information about registration and web-links will be made available with the final […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Michelle Ciurria
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the sixty-sixth 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 discussion with disabled philosophers […]
Philosophy and Mohawk Girls
Based on the documentary of the same name directed by the award-winning filmmaker Tracey Deer (Mohawk), Mohawk Girls was a critically-acclaimed comedy-drama series (Tracey Deer, director) that, from 2014-2016, aired continuously through five seasons on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). The main characters of the series were four Mohawk women, Anna, Bailey, Caitlin, and […]
Welcome Axel Arturo Barceló Aspeitia!
I am very excited to officially announce that BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY now has an additional contributing author, Axel Arturo Barceló Aspeitia (he/him/his)! Axel has in the past contributed guest posts to both BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY and Discrimination and Disadvantage (for example, here) and is an avid participant in and contributor to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Facebook. Axel’s inaugural post […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, September 16th, at 8 am 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 “The Dialogues on Disability platform … has been very helpful to me, especially at times where I did not feel I belong in the world of […]
Engaged Public Philosophy
Engaged Philosophy comprises a group of philosophers who aim to promote civic engagement in philosophy. The Engaged Philosophy website states: Engaged Philosophy aims to help other philosophy professors—and their students—join us in civic engagement. The site facilitates organizing, participating in, sharing, studying, and disseminating the results of civic engagement projects in philosophy classes by showcasing examples […]
Philosophy for Children
Do you know some kids? Do you parent some yourself? Do you want to find additional ways to introduce them to philosophy? The Center for Philosophy for Children might be what you need. The Center for Philosophy for Children will run two streams of Zoom philosophy courses that comprise six classes each, beginning in October. […]
My New Article in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
My article “Field Notes on the Naturalization and Denaturalization of Disability in (Feminist) Philosophy: What They Do and How They Do It” was published today in Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (vol. 6, no. 3, 2020). You can find my article here: https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/9395/8720 The article seems especially pertinent this morning given the ongoing intransigent refusal of philosophers […]
CFP: Transgender India (deadline: Oct. 1, 2020)
Chapters are invited for Transgender India, which examines hijras and sadhins from antiquity to the present, drawing on scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Contributions providing philosophical perspectives are especially encouraged. Chapters may explore a range of Indian transgender identities and experiences—including but not limited to individuals identifying as third gender, MTF, FTM, and nonbinary. A […]
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