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 […]
Forthcoming Publication: “Disabling Bioethics: Notes Toward an Abolitionist Genealogy of Bioethics”
Here is some additional summer reading/listening for avid fans of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. The essay that appears below is forthcoming as a chapter in Genealogy: A Genealogy, edited by Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson and Daniele Lorenzini. Since my writing on disability is often appropriated without attribution or proper citation to me (not by you, dear fan/reader/listener!), I am […]
FOUCAULT STUDIES
I want to remind readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY that I am now a coeditor of FOUCAULT STUDIES which has recently become publishing partners with Penn Press. The journal aims to incorporate more transgressive and progressive work on Foucault and disability! So, submit your awesome Foucauldian analyses of disability to us! Put plainly, I was brought […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 8 am 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 “… 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 […]
Press Release for New Zine: Being Trans in Philosophy
‘We Are Not Trans in a Theoretical Way’: 22 Trans Philosophers and Philosopher-Parents of Trans Kids Speak Out on Academic Philosophy’s Impact on Trans Lives in the Discipline and Beyond Being trans is not a controversial idea but a lived reality. A new zine released today collects 22 first-personal accounts of what it is actually […]
Spinoza and Feminism: Seminar with Hasana Sharp, Zoom, Jun. 14, 2025, at 17:00 BST/12:00pm EST
Saturday June 14th, 17:00 BST/12:00pm ESTSee this page for details: https://culturepowerpolitics.org/from-marx-to-spinoza-affect-ideology-materiality/ This seminar is part of the series From Marx to Spinoza: Affect, Ideology, Materiality, convened by Andrew Goffey, Jason Read and Jeremy Gilbert, hosted by Culture, Power, Politics. The seminar will be held on Zoom, is free, and open to all. The link will be sent out […]
The Latinx Philosophy Reader
Readings include discussions of what it is like to be perceived as undocumented, ethical quagmires affecting those who interpret for their family members, the difficulty of pursuing career success without compromising one’s cultural identity and values, the nature of citizenship, disputes about labels, the significance of language, and debates about the nature of Latinx identity.
The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability – 30%Off!
Are you in the northern hemisphere and pondering what else to read/listen to this summer? Are you already fretting about what reading materials to assign to your classes in the Fall? No worries. We got you. Let us recommend that you relax and enjoy the many treasures that await you in the pages of The […]
Ubuntu, Reconciliation and Gender-Based Violence in South Africa, Hybrid, May 16, 2025
The Centre for Global and Comparative Philosophies is pleased to invite you to the 27th Lecture in the SOAS World Philosophies Lecture Series. The Lecture will be delivered by Rianna Oelofsen, Associate Professor at University of Fort Hare, South Africa. This lecture will be hybrid, and we encourage all who can to attend in person. […]
Virtual Summer School: Feminist Critiques of Kant’s Views on Women & Human Progress, Zoom, Jun. 13, 16, 18, 2025
Virtual Summer School: Feminist Critiques of Kant’s Views on Women & Human Progress Organized by Olga Lenczewska, co-taught by Helga Varden and Holly Wilson Session 1: June 13th (Friday), 10-12 EST (4-6pm CET) Topic: Women in Kant’s Writings – prof. Olga Lenczewska Session 2: June 16th (Monday), 10-12 EST (4-6pm CET) Topic: Kant on Women’s Moral & Political Nature – guest speaker prof. Helga Varden […]
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