Waseda Workshop on Sexuality: Japanese and International Perspectives October 12 – 13 *Held online. Please register for ZOOM below. Official language is English October 12 (Sat), 2024: 10:00-17:20 (Japan Standard Time) https://list-waseda-jp.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LzbNkJAmTJ-t9gKRlH_93Q (Registration for Day 1. Please register now) 9:30 – 10:00 Welcome Reception 10:00 – 10:10 Introduction (Thomas Spiegel) 10:10 – 11:30 Kasumi Nakamura […]
Resources for National Truth and Reconciliation Day/Orange Shirt Day, September 30th
GENERAL National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Creating a Climate for Change (First Nations Health Alliance booklet) Lee Maracle on the Impact of Austerity on Indigenous Populations (video) First Nations Child and Family Caring Society Aboriginal People’s Television Network (APTN) Moving to Action: Activating UNDRIP in Canadian Museums (Canadian […]
Orange Shirt Day (National Day of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada)
Description of image above: shows an orange t-shirt which depicts two eagle feathers tied together and “EVERY CHILD MATTERS” at top. In the middle, the t-shirt reads: “Orange Shirt Day” September 30. Below the date, appears this message: “Orange Shirt Day recognizes the harm done to generations of children by the Indian Residential Schools and […]
Neurodiversity and Neurodivergence: The Epistemic, Political, and Ethical Dimensions of Conceiving Differences versus Deficits, Online/Bayreuth, Oct. 10-11, 2024
This workshop brings together people working in various areas of philosophy whose work pertains to research on neurodiversity and neurodivergence or has implications for our understanding of it. The neurodiversity movement emerged in the early 1990s as a joint action of activist autistic individuals who, through online connections, began raising awareness of various problems associated […]
Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PHIDISSOCCH5), Online, December 11-13, 2024: Final Program and Registration Information
I’m very happy to announce that the final program and registration information are available for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 (#PHIDISSOCCH5), which I am organizing with Jonathan Wolff and with the support of the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford University. Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 is free, will take place online, and […]
Preliminary Program for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, Online, December 11-13, 2024
I have copied below the preliminary program for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 which takes place online December 11-13, 2024, 13:00-18:00 GMT/UK Time (=ET+5). Information about registration for this event will appear here soon. Check back often! (All times in GMT/UK Time=ET +5) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 13:00-13:05 INTRODUCTIONS Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, […]
30% Off The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability During This Back-To-School Sale!
Now is your chance to pick up copies of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, the cutting-edge resource for your teaching and research, at an additional discount. Assign the book to your students! Until October 6, 11:59pm ET, Bloomsbury Publishers is offering a 30% discount on its books in its back-to-school sale, including The […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 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 “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]
CFA: Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches, A Special Issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly (deadline: Dec. 18, 2024)
This CFA invites abstracts of 750 words (max.) for a peer-reviewed special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly on the theme, “Foucault and Feminist Philosophy: Other Perspectives and Approaches.” The issue will be published in 2026 to commemorate the centennial anniversary of Michel Foucault’s birth on October 15, 1926. Accepted abstracts must be developed to articles […]
Update on Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, Dec. 11-13, 2024
This week, I am putting together the program for the fifth edition of the Philosophy, Disability and Social Change conference. You should expect the program to look quite different than it has in past years. For I have reformatted both the overall structure of the conference and the structure of sessions themselves to enable a […]
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