What does a philosopher look like? Inevitably, our mental pictures are shaped by the dominant imagery of the white male marble busts of Greco-Roman antiquity—Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca—and their modern European heirs—Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Mill. Even today Western philosophy is largely male and overwhelmingly white—about 97 percent in the U.S., close to […]
Another Reason To Get Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability – 30% Off!
Some readers and listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY may recall that one of our first posts was an announcement about the book symposium on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability that will take place at the upcoming Pacific APA in Vancouver. In recognition of this event, the University of Michigan Press will take 30% off the […]
CFP: MAP Group Session, Creating Inclusive Spaces, Pacific APA, Apr. 19, 2019 (deadline: Feb. 1, 2019)
We are seeking paper abstracts and proposals for mini-workshops or advice sessions related to this theme. Possible topics include sexual harassment, advising and mentorship dynamics, cultivating ecologies of support, division of emotional and professional labor in academia, the effects of implicit bias in academic spaces, and other related topics. Each session will last for about […]
CFA: Conference on Imagination and Social Change, Claremont McKenna College, Sept. 26-28, 2019 (deadline: Mar. 15, 2019)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Michelle Moody-Adams, Columbia University Juliet Hooker, Brown University INVITED SPEAKERS Mavis Biss, Loyola University Maryland Sophie-Grace Chappell, The Open University Janine Jones, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Shen-yi Liao, University of Puget Sound Heidi Lene Maibom, University of Cincinnati Sofia Ortiz-Hinojosa, Vassar College Though imagination is often associated with flights of fancy […]
Call for Applications: 2019 Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop, UNC Charlotte, May 14-17th (deadline: Feb. 1, 2019)
From the Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop: We are very happy to announce that the focus of the 2019 Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop is Dr. Audra Simpson. Dr. Simpson is Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University in New York. She is the author of Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University […]
CFP: NYC Minorities and Philosophy Workshop Series, Feb. 20-Apr. 30, 2019 (deadline: Jan. 7, 2019)
CFP: NYC Minorities and Philosophy Workshop Series Submission deadline: January 7, 2019 Conference date(s): February 20, 2019 – April 30, 2019 Go to the conference’s page Conference Venue: Columbia University, New York University, Rutgers University, and the Graduate Center, CUNY New York City, United States Details The Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) chapters of Columbia, NYU, […]
APA Symposium on Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability
The draft program for the upcoming Pacific APA meeting in Vancouver (April 17th-20th, 2019) went online in late November. The symposium on my book, Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, is scheduled for Thursday, April 18th, 1-4 p.m. My co-blogger, Melinda Hall, will chair the session. The other participants in the session are: Devonya Havis, […]
CFP: (Post)colonial Health: Global Perspectives on the Medical Humanities, University of Leeds, June 20-21, 2019 (deadline: Feb. 15, 2019)
(Post)colonial Health: Global Perspectives on the Medical Humanities Weetwood Hall, University of Leeds, 20-21 June 2019 Keynote speakers:Professor Deepika Bahri, Professor of English, Emory University, author of Postcolonial Biology: Psyche and Flesh After Empire (2017) Professor Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Professor in the History of Medicine, Director of the Centre for Global Health Histories, and Director of the […]
