The video and audio recordings of the outstanding symposium, “Feminism, Ableism, and Medical Assistance in Dying,” which took place last week as part of the Feminist Legal Studies Lecture Series at Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC, are now available. Among other benefits, the presentations provided sharp feminist analyses of euthanasia and sexism, the […]
How Medico-capitalism Fuels Over-diagnosis and Over-medication
I’m surprised that there’s controversy over the claim that people are over-diagnosed and over-medicated in a laissez-faire capitalist society. The medical establishment is part of a capitalist order that classifies and commodifies everything for profit, including human emotions and behaviours. Capitalism also suppresses dissent and resistance in order to maximise profit at the expense of […]
CFP: Reel Politics: Film, Radical Politics, and Solidarity, University of Guelph Online, May 26-27, 2021 (deadline: Apr. 15, 2021)
This May, the Reel Politics conference, hosted by the University of Guelph Department of Philosophy, will meet online as a forum to explore a range of topics pertaining to film and radical politics. Participants will have the opportunity to present philosophical responses to film as an important site of experiencing and reasoning about political culture, particularly as they relate to immediate justice movements and crises, such as anthropogenic climate […]
CFA: Critical Theory Workshop/Atelier de Théorie Critique Summer Research Program, Paris, Jun. 29-Jul. 17, 2020 (deadline: rolling until Mar. 15, 2020)
CRITICAL THEORY WORKSHOP ATELIER DE THÉORIE CRITIQUE Summer Research Program 2020 Sorbonne – EHESS / Paris, France Founding Director: Gabriel Rockhill PRACTICAL INFORMATION Location: EHESS, 105 boulevard Raspail, 75005 Paris, France Tentative Dates: June 29-July 17, 2020 Contact: Rosa Dolet Languages: English & French (events in French will be translated into English so knowledge of […]
CFP: Bio-communism – Reconceptualizing Communism in the Age of Biopolitics, Warsaw, Jan. 25-26, 2020 (deadline: Dec. 1, 2019)
What could bio-communism be? Perhaps it is a form of communism where the workers, freed from the tyranny of capitalism has reconnected with their species-being (Gattungswesen)? Or rather a form of communism which aims to emancipate not only human but also non-human workers from their bonds? Maybe it is neither, and instead, it is a […]
CFP: Feminism and Classics 2020: Body/Language, Wake Forest, May 21-24, 2020 (deadline: Sept. 1, 2019)
FemClas 2020, the eighth quadrennial conference of its kind, takes place on May 21–24, 2020, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, at the invitation of the Wake Forest University Department of Classics and Department of Philosophy. The conference theme is “body/language,” broadly construed, and papers on all topics related to feminism, Classics, Philosophy, and related fields are […]
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