Philosophy of Disability and the Critical Disability Studies Conference at York

Later today, I will give a Keynote presentation entitled “Philosophy of Disability, Critical Disability Studies, and the Nursing Home-Industrial-Complex” to the Annual York University Critical Disability Studies Conference. Due to the pandemic, this year’s conference is taking place over four consecutive Wednedays this month. I’m delighted to have the opportunity to share my work on […]

Welcome our Newest Contributor: Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril!

I am very happy to announce that BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY has a new contributing author: Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril, who is a disabled philosophy graduate student at the University of Aberdeen! Élaina has research interests in bioethics, Spinoza, feminst philosophy, and critical disability studies. To learn more about our newest blogger, check out her bio on our Blog […]

New Journal: Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies (deadline for inaugural issue: Oct. 15, 2020)

I am pleased to be a member of the editorial board of this new interdisciplinary journal. The Indian Journal of Critical Disability Studies (InJCDS) is an open-source, online, international peer-reviewed journal published twice a year (January and July). InJCDS focusses on bringing forth original research on disability issues that emerge from examining both the political and the personal […]

CFP: Routledge Companion to Art and Disability (deadline: Dec. 15, 2019)

The editors of The Routledge Companion to Art and Disability seekproposals for a peer-reviewed volume of essays that approach art from acritical disability studies perspective. Throughout history many artistseither had disabilities themselves, included representations of disabilityin their work, or explored an aesthetics of disability, but theconstruction of dis/ability in the history of art has not […]