Ohio State University’s Office of Student Life Disability Services (SLDS) now has an in-house Braille transcriber for students requesting textbook and other materials in Braille, providing a faster and more cost-effective way to serve the needs of students and university departments. SLDS’s Lisa Vogt recently became a certified Braille transcriber through the (U.S.) National Library […]
Philosophy Beyond the “Now,” Massey University, Albany Campus, Jun. 21-22, 2019
2nd Michigan State and Massey Universities Philosophy Symposium This conference is an invitation to come together and imagine futurities beyond this now. We invite panels and participants to take part in two days of discussion aimed at exploring and thinking beyond the “now” towards worlds other than and better than this. We encourage panels and […]
Dialogues on Disability Wants You!
Are you a disabled philosopher? Would you like to join the dozens of other dynamic and illustrious disabled philosophers I’ve interviewed in the Dialogues on Disability series that I run here on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY? If so, please contact me at s.tremain@yahoo.ca OR sltremain@gmail.com. I’m lining up and conducting interviews for the coming months!
Women in Modern Philosophy: An International Conference, Rio de Janiero State University, Jun. 17-20, 2019
Keynote speakers: · Ruth Hagengruber – Paderborn University · Marilena Chauí – University of São Paulo · Lisa Shapiro – Simon Fraser University · Ulysses Pinheiro – Federal University of Rio de Janeiro · Sabbrina Ebbersmeyer – University of Copenhagen · Lia Levy – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul · Sarah Hutton – University of York · Christine Lopes – Independent […]
Undergraduate Diversity Initiative for the British Society of Aesthetics Conference, Oxford, Sept. 6-8, 2019 (deadline: Jul. 1, 2019)
In an effort to increase diversity in British aesthetics and philosophy of art, the British Society of Aesthetics (BSA) is launching a new initiative to encourage UK undergraduates from underrepresented groups to consider further study in the discipline. We will provide funding to a limited number of such students to attend the BSA Annual Conference, […]
Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability at Pacific APA This Thursday!
While many of you are preoccupied reading or listening to this Wednesday’s fourth-anniversary installment of Dialogues on Disability, Melinda and I will be en route to Vancouver for the Pacific APA where, on Thursday, from 1-4 p.m., the symposium on my book, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, will take place. The roster for the […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, Apr. 17th, 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 “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 […]
Heading to the Pacific APA Next Month?
Maybe you are heading to the Pacific APA next month. You’ve considered checking out the symposium on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability; but you haven’t read/listened to the book. So, you’re wondering if the session would be worth your while. Maybe you should go to another session instead. Maybe you should instead go outside […]
Foucault, Feminist Philosophy of Disability, Pacific APA, and Wordgathering
In January, I posted some thoughts about writing my book Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, noting that these ruminations were preliminary ideas that would take shape in the response that I give in the symposium on the book at the upcoming Pacific APA. Michael Northen, editor of Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and […]
Mind, Attention, & World: Themes in Indian & Buddhist Philosophical Theory, NYU, Apr. 25-26, 2019
April 25-26, 2019 19 Washington Square North New York, NY 10011 Location: Events Space (2nd Floor) Convenor: Jonardon Ganeri, NYU (646) 316-7297 April 25, 2019|DAY 1 8:45 am – 9:00 am Coffee & Welcome (Jonardon Ganeri NYU) 9:00 am – 10:45 am Panel 1. Attending to Oneself Chair: Nic Bommarito (Buffalo) 9:00 am – 9:50 […]
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