Neurodiversity Global Seminar Series 2025

The Center for Neurodiversity Studies (CNS) at O.P. Jindal Global University (India) and the Centre for Neurodiversity and Development at Durham University (UK) cordially invite you to the Neurodiversity Global Seminar Series 2025. This year-long online seminar series aims to facilitate a global interdisciplinary dialogue on neurodiversity by bringing together researchers and practitioners from various cultural contexts. […]

CFA: Neurodiversity, Autism, ASD, and Other Categories in Psychiatry and Mental Health, Tilburg/Online, Dec. 16, 2024 (deadline: Oct. 23, 2024)

We invite submissions of abstracts (~250-500 words) on any of the following or broadly related topics: What should we mean by “neurodiversity”? What is the relationship between the categories “neurodiversity,” “autism” and “ASD”? Why are these categories useful? What are their limitations? What do we know about the mechanisms, developmental trajectory, phenomenology, and social attitudes […]

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, […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Amelia Hicks

­­Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and seventh 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 […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, February 21, 2024

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 […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Mylène Legault

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the one hundred and sixth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I’m 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 […]

Autistic Experience in the Majority World, Wed. Apr. 26, Online

Autism and neurodiversity are terms that are gaining use in everyday conversation. The recognition of the diversity of neurological being represents a paradigm shift. Discussions about this have traditionally been orchestrated in a few countries in the west. This is a problem because it cuts us off from relevant world history, human context and opportunities. […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Jane Dryden

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the eighty-fourth 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 […]

Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Isaac (YunQi) Jiang

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the seventy-seventh 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 […]