Although you may have seen my name on the program for the upcoming CSWIP conference, I will not be attending the conference, that is, I have withdrawn from the conference. The reasons for my doing so are both complicated and very straightforward. I consider CSWIP (and Canadian philosophy more generally) to be a toxic environment […]
CFP: philoSOPHIA 2020, Vanderbilt, May 14-17, 2020 (deadline: Dec. 15, 2019)
philoSOPHIA 2020 — Hosted by Vanderbilt University and Kelly Oliver Plenary Speakers: Kathryn Sophia Belle (Penn State), Lisa Guenther (Queen’s) , Tracy Sharpley Whiting (Vanderbilt) Plenary Panel: New Perspectives on Disability: Kim Q. Hall, Melinda Hall, Joel Reynolds, Shelley Tremain The conference will have two workshop streams: (1) Rethinking Prisons; and (2) Rethinking Disability Submit […]
CFP: Animal Ethics: Questioning the Orthodoxy (deadline: Sept. 30, 2019)
Guest editors: Herwig Grimm and Susana Monsó (Messerli Research Institute Vienna) It has become commonplace to refer to the success of animal ethics and the animal turn in philosophy. Since Singer and Regan published their ground-breaking works more than forty years ago, animal ethics has become an institutionalised field of research. This is mirrored in the appearance of entire journals, book series, text […]
CFP: Neglected Philosophers of Struggle, 25th Philosophy Born in Struggle Conference, Grand Rapids, MI, Nov. 1-2, 2019 (deadline: Aug. 15, 2019)
The conference is scheduled for November 1–2, 2019 and will be held at the Embassy Suites by Hilton in Grand Rapids, Michigan (USA). The conference theme is Neglected Philosophers of Struggle. Conference registration will be available by early August 2019. The keynote speaker for the conference is Juliet Hooker, Professor of Political Science at Brown […]
CFP: Origins, Lives and Afterlives of Energy Transitions in the Global South, Eindhoven, Jan. 23-24, 2020 (deadline: Aug. 15, 2019)
In the last decade, a range of social scientific and philosophical work has emerged on energy transitions in the global South. There are three gaps in this literature. First, much of the literature is concerned with transitions on the level of (inter)national energy systems, while there is less attention for the political and ethical consequences […]
CFP: Migration, Stability, and Solidarity, Ruhr-University Bochum, Oct. 28-29, 2019 (deadline: Jul. 19, 2019)
Interdisciplinary Conference: Migration, Stability, and Solidarity Ruhr-University Bochum, October 28th and 29th Keynote: Michael Blake (University of Washington, Seattle) The conference will discuss two neglected questions within migration ethics: 1. What is the relation between migration and political stability? 2. How should solidarity be understood when it comes to migration? With respect to […]
CFP: Fat Activism (deadline: Sept. 1, 2019)
Call for proposals for a special issue of Fat Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society on Fat Activism Guest Editors:Stefanie Snider, Kendall College of Art and Design, snider.stefanie@gmail.comJason Whitesel, Illinois State University, jawhit6@ilstu.edu To be considered for inclusion in this special issue, please send a 250-400 word proposal and current CV or resume to […]
Last Call for Abstracts: Disabling Normativities Conference, Johannesburg, Oct. 1-3, 2019 (deadline: Jun. 28, 2019)
Next Friday (Jun. 28) is the last day to submit an abstract for the Disabling Normativities Conference to take place at the University of Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg, South Africa, October 1-3, 2019! The conference is hosted by The Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WiCDS) at the University of Witwatersrand. Confirmed keynote speakers are: Boaventura de […]
CFP: Posthuman Agency, 4th Global Posthuman Symposium, NYU, Apr. 30-May 2, 2020 (deadline: Dec. 31, 2019)
We are delighted to announce the 4th Posthuman Global Symposium, to be held at New York University, New York, USA*. This Symposium is dedicated to exploring the importance of posthuman agency in the interrelated significations of human and non-human realms. We intend to spark a deep and multilayered analysis of posthuman agency both as praxis […]
CFP: Toward an Asymmetrical Ethics: Power, Relations, and the Diversity of Subjectivities, Södertörn University, Nov. 13-15, 2019 (deadline: Aug. 20, 2019)
Keynote Speakers: Jonathan Metzger, Else Vogel, Talia Welsh In Western societies and philosophical traditions, the egalitarian relation between rational subjects has since long been understood as an ethical ideal for intersubjective relations. This ethics presupposes a relation between two independent subjects of the same kind: autonomous, rational, and (self-)transparent subjects. And even when this understanding […]
