Behind the scenes, we are gearing up for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 2 (#PhiDisSocCh2) which takes place December 7-10, that is, begins two weeks from tomorrow. You can still register for the conference here: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/philosophy-disability-and-social-change-2-conference I’m extremely pleased about the line-up for this year’s conference. I’m also very happy that I will be dropping […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Amandine Catala
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the eightieth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for discussion with disabled philosophers […]
Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 2 (#PhiDisSocCh2): Registration and Additional Information
A reminder that registration is now open for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 2 (#PhiDisSocCh2), the pathbreaking conference that takes place online December 7-10. The conference programme and additional information are copied below. Register for the conference here: https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/events/philosophy-disability-and-social-change-2-conference The Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 2 online conference (#PhiDisSocCh2) will comprise 20 sessions of presentations […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, November 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 “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 […]
Dea, Data, and the Disabling Canadian University
This post extends a thread about disability and data collection that I began in an earlier post (go here). I had intended to continue my consideration of APDA/Eric Schwitzgebel’s discussion about disability and the demographics of philosophy and of Shannon Dea’s discussion about disability and the post-pandemic university in Canada after I examined the fuller […]
CFP: 6th Latinx Philosophy Conference, Temple University, Mar. 25-16, 2022 (deadline: Dec. 17, 2021)
CFP 6th Latinx Philosophy Conference March 25-26 2022 Keynote Speakers Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa (Vassar College) Rocío Zambrana (Emory University) The Latinx Philosophy Conference celebrates philosophical work by Latinx philosophers and philosophical work on issues relevant to Latinx and Latin American peoples. The conference aims to bring together philosophers working on a wide variety of topics and […]
Show Your Support For Disabled Philosophers
If you are a new reader/listener of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, you might have recognized that Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I conduct with disabled philosophers and post here on the third Wednesday of each month, is at the heart of the blog. What you might not know, however, is that the Dialogues on […]
Counting Disability: On Foucault, Hacking, APDA, Dea, and the Avalanche of Printed Numbers
In his important article “Biopower and the Avalanche of Printed Numbers, Ian Hacking (1981) writes: The numerical manipulations of the body politic are and always were dusty, replete with dried up old books-the “Blue Books” of the British parliament, for example-books of ciphers. They offer no appeal to the voyeur … Yet these very interminable […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Emily Heydon
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the seventy-ninth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for discussion with disabled philosophers […]
Ira y Reconciliación
Este martes tuve la oportunidad de escuchar a Diana Rojas hablar sobre su trabajo de investigación sobre emociones políticas colectivas y, en particular, sobre la relación entre ira y reconciliación. Su pregunta central es qué papel juegan, de hecho, las emociones en general, y la ira en particular, en los procesos de reconciliación, especialmente, la […]
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