The Decolonising Philosophy Curriculum Toolkit, a production of SOAS (University of London), has officially launched! The toolkit, which was co-created with students on a paid internship, can be accessed via the project’s website by following the link below: https://www.soas.ac.uk/decolonising-philosophy-curriculum-toolkit
CFP: Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism, University of Oregon/Zoom, May 12-13, 2023 (deadline: Jan. 15, 2023)
Feminist Afterlives of Colonialism is a two-day, interdisciplinary conference on the topic of critical feminist approaches to the coloniality of gender that will be held at the University of Oregon on May 12th – 13th, 2023. Kenote Speaker: TBA As we navigate the myriad crises and possibilities interspersed throughout the world and our many worlds, we […]
Climate Change: An Unprecedentedly Old Catastrophe (Guest Post)
In recognition of National Indigenous Peoples Day, I have reposted an essay that Kyle Whyte contributed to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on January 16, 2019. The article is a slightly adapted version of an article published online in Grafting Issue 1 (June 2018) by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and Blackwood Gallery,* Toronto, Ontario. […]
CFA: African Political and Economic Philosophy (deadline: Aug. 31, 2020)
African Political and Economic Philosophy Call for Papers (Book Chapters) Abstracts (250 Words maximum) Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2020 Editors Ephraim-Stephen Essien, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria Kenneth Amaeshi, University of Edinburgh, UK Raymond Osei, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana Paul Nnodim, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA Joseph Agbakoba, University of Nigeria, […]
Notes on Khader’s Decolonizing Universalism and the Problematization of Disability in Feminist Philosophy
In Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, I aimed to denaturalize disability by arguing that disability is an apparatus of power rather than a natural human difference, personal attribute, or biological characteristic. My argument is thus distinct from the approaches to disability that disabled philosophers of disability such as Barnes, Silvers, and Stramondo take and […]
CFP: Phenomenology and Its Worlds: Critical and Applied Phenomenologies, Villanova, Mar. 27-28, 2020 (deadline: Dec. 15, 2019)
Featuring Keynote Addresses by Alia Al-Saji (McGill University) and Megan Craig (Stony Brook University) Phenomenology takes “the world” as one of its central themes. It is variously conceived as the intersubjective horizon of all experience, as the environment which surrounds and envelopes consciousness, and as the flesh into which bodies are interwoven. Yet, these conceptions are consistently interrogated by […]
CFP: Social Visibility (deadline: Oct. 1, 2020)
Special issue of Philosophical Topics Guest editors: Matthew Congdon and Alice Crary If we are to register and respond rightly to conditions of suffering and injustice, these conditions must be visible. Unjust circumstances, and those harmed by them, must appear worthy of attention and practical response, so that they are taken to issue in intelligible and […]
CFP: Special Issue of Wagadu on racialization.spectacle.liberation (deadline: Nov. 15, 2019)
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women’s and Gender Studies Title of Special Issue: racialization.spectacle.liberation. Guest Editors: Chriss Sneed and S.M. Rodriguez “There is a continuous temptation to think of race as an essence, as something fixed, concreate, and objective. And there is also an opposite temptation: to imagine race as a mere illusion, a purely […]
CFP: Critical Vulnerabilities: Political, Epistemological, and Ontological Issues, Université de Montréal, Jan. 29-31, 2020 (deadline: Oct. 1, 2019)
How are we to understand vulnerabilities from a feminist standpoint? To this apparently simple question, the Symposium of feminist philosophy calls for complex and critical answers. The concept of vulnerability, quite popular amongst scholars from various disciplines, arises from a daily, concrete reality which is central to numerous feminist work on the “ordinary” dimension of […]
CFA: Contested Identities: Critical Conceptualisations of the Human, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Nov. 22-23, 2019 (deadline: Sept. 7, 2019)
The South African Society for Critical Theory (SASCT) invites abstract submissions of up to 500 words for its 3rd Annual Conference which will take place at the Howard College Campus of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, from the 22nd to the 23rd of November 2019. Keynote Speaker: Professor Lewis Gordon SASCT is pleased to announce that the keynote speaker […]
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