YOGA-ANTICOLONIAL PHILOSOPHY: An Overview By Shyam Ranganathan Who Is This Book For? I wrote Yoga—Anticolonial Philosophy: An Action Focused Guide to Practice (Singing Dragon 2024) for students of Yoga and philosophy in the broad sense. It is written for people who have a practice of “yoga” or teach yoga, or are interested in the history […]
Tracy Isaacs: Meat-Eating as Ideology and “Meat-Eaters’ Fragility,” Online, Apr. 15, 2024, 15:15 CET/ 9:15 EST
The Collective Ethics Seminar: Online Presentation – 15 April 2024 – 15.15 – 16.45 CET / 09.15 – 10.45 EST Tracy Isaacs (Western University) – Meat-Eating as Ideology and “Meat-Eaters’ Fragility“ Abstract: Two major lines of reasoning yield the result that we should give up animal products. The first draws attention to the vast animal suffering […]
Dialogues on Disability, Ninth-Anniversary Installment, on Wednesday, April 17, at 8 a.m. ET
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 […]
From Philosophy of m/Madness to m/Mad Philosophy, Oxford, Sept. 25-26, 2024
EVENT DESCRIPTION The conference will explore what it means to think about m/Madness philosophically. The title reflects our interest in ‘madness’ as both a speculative (lower case ‘m’) and a practical (upper case ‘M’) term. Furthermore, it reflects our interest in the different ways in which m/Madness might be approached – either as an object […]
Launch of Decolonising Philosophy Curriculum Toolkit, Online, May 1, 17:00-18:00 (UK Time)
Wednesday 1st May from 17:00-18:00 [UK-time] marks the informal launch of the UK’s first fully comprehensive Decolonising Philosophy Curriculum Toolkit. The toolkit is the principal output of one of the 23/24 SOAS’s Co-Creator Internship projects. The toolkit has been co-created by 4 undergraduate students at SOAS and 4 academic philosophers at SOAS. It is a […]
Lecture by Johnathan Flowers: Gender as Affect: A Cross-Cultural Aesthetics of Gender, SOAS/Zoom, Mar. 22, 2024, 16:00 GMT
The Centre for Global and Comparative Philosophies is very pleased to invite you to the 21st Lecture in the SOAS World Philosophies Lecture Series. The Lecture will be delivered by Johnathan Flowers, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Northridge Title: Gender as Affect: a Cross-Cultural Aesthetics of Gender Summary This talk will bring together Japanese Aesthetics and American […]
All That’s Happening on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
It was a busy Fall insofar as I was preoccupied with the last production stages of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability. December rolled around and the publication of the book took place on the 14th, which publication coincided with Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4 on the 14th and 15th. Then, January was […]
The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is Selling Out Around the World
Paperback copies of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability are sold out again on amazon.ca (Canada) and both paperback and hardcover copies of the book are sold out on amazon.au (Australia), although shipment of it finally arrived there only on Friday. Although this news makes me very happy in some respects, I encourage you […]
Canadian Faculties Call for the Resignation of NDP MP Selina Robinson, BC Minister of Post-Secondary Education
February 4, 2024 We write as concerned Canadian faculty organizations whose combined membership spans universities and colleges across the country. Among us are faculty with expertise in Palestine Studies, Middle East Studies, Israel Studies, Jewish Studies, Education, History, Geography, Settler Colonial and Islamic Studies. We stand together to call unequivocally for the removal of B.C. […]
CFA: Trans/Feminist Philosophy: Pasts, Presents, Futures, University of Guelph, Aug. 14-16, 2024 (deadline: Mar. 15, 2024)
The Canadian Society for Trans Philosophy (CSTP) and the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP) invite the submission of abstracts for inclusion in our upcoming conference, “Trans/Feminist Philosophy: Pasts, Presents, Futures.” The conference will be held August 14-16, 2024, at the University of Guelph. We encourage interdisciplinary submissions, as well as submissions which challenge […]
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