The Graduate Student Council (GSC) of the APA is now accepting abstracts for a panel discussion on navigating academic philosophy as a first-generation and/or low-income graduate student at the Eastern Division. Many philosophers have highlighted the lack of diversity amongst professional philosophers, and there are several active initiatives aimed at encouraging greater diversity, a great […]
Disabling Normativities, Johannesburg, Oct. 1-3, 2019, Registration Open and Extended CFA (deadline: Aug. 30, 2019)
Because our international readership/listenership continues to grow and since the deadline for this conference CFP has been extended, I’ve reposted information about it below. Registration is open for the Disabling Normativities Conference that takes place October 1-3, 2019, at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, and is organized by the Wits Centre for Diversity […]
Adding BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY To Your Toolbox
As we continue to foster a readership/listenership across continents, I want to encourage readers and listeners who either come here regularly or have only recently found us to draw upon the resources that BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY offers. If you browse through our pages, posts, and archives, you will find essays, reprinted articles, CFPs, and other items […]
CFP: Critical Theory in (A Time of) Crisis, Brighton/Sussex, Nov. 5-6, 2019 (deadline: Aug. 30, 2019)
CRITICAL THEORY IN (A TIME OF) CRISIS A two-day Postgraduate Conference Organised by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics & Ethics (University of Brighton) and the Research Centre for Studies in Social and Political Thought (University of Sussex) 5 and 6 November 2019 Day 1 University of Brighton; Day 2 University of Sussex Keynote speaker: […]
Tolerance in Mediterranean Societies: History, Ideas and Institutions, Casablanca, Jul. 11-13, 2019
Reset Dialogues On Civilizations in partnership with the King Abdul-Aziz Al Saoud Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences is organizing the second edition of the International School and Seminars in Casablanca. The second edition of Casablanca Seminars goes on with its aim of understanding of and among traditions to examine the fountains of tolerance in […]
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 […]
Travels, Tribulations, and Touchstones
After a day of travelling, I was anxious to check in to my room. And I was hungry. I hadn’t eaten all day. As I waited for the elevator to take me up, a member of that diversity in philosophy project quickly approached, almost out of nowhere. I had never met this philosopher before, but […]
MAP Bristol Conference: Postcolonial and Decolonial Reception of European Thought, University of Bristol, Jun. 6-7, 2019
Philosophers recently have become aware that there is a risk that Eurocentric biases in philosophical tradition may distort the scholarship of the broad academic theoretical work. To correct these biases — which have been critically denounced by the scholars from non-European continents — the postcolonial scholarship made an effort in deconstructing the European theoretical referents, […]
CFA: Justice, Inequality, and Old Age, Salzberg, Nov. 27-28, 2019 (deadline: Jun. 7, 2019)
The Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research (CEPR) invites the submission of abstracts to be considered for participation in a two day conference on “Justice, Inequality and Old Age”, to be held at the Centre’s premises in Salzburg on 27 and 28 November 2019. The conference is organized by Dan Halliday (Melbourne) and Gottfried Schweiger […]
CFP: 16th Annual California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race (CRPR), Marquette University, Oct. 18-19, 2019 (deadline: May 15, 2019)
The California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race announces a call forpapers for its 16th annual roundtable. This roundtable bringstogether philosophers of race in continental and analytic traditions,and those working in related disciplines in a small and congenialsetting to share their work and develop this field further.Philosophical papers are invited on any issue regarding race,ethnicity, or […]
