The Centre for Global and Comparative Philosophies is very pleased to invite you to the 21st Lecture in the SOAS World Philosophies Lecture Series. The Lecture will be delivered by Johnathan Flowers, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, California State University, Northridge Title: Gender as Affect: a Cross-Cultural Aesthetics of Gender Summary This talk will bring together Japanese Aesthetics and American […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, March 20, 2024, at 8 a.m. ET
I have read almost all of your interviews and they are always wonderful. … I am really looking forward to the next installment of Dialogues on Disability.” — Adrian Piper “I’ve learned so much from Shelley Lynn Tremain’s Dialogues on Disability through the years (and found out about so much exciting work being done by disabled […]
(Why) You Should Stop Elevating Disabled Men in Philosophy
I was relieved that Mich Ciurria controlled the peer-review process for the forthcoming special issue of Feminist Philosophy Quarterly that they guest edited. The reviewer reports that I received, although I did not agree with all the remarks made therein, were instructive and convinced me to expand upon and rearrange claims in the submission in […]
CFA: Trans/Feminist Philosophy: Pasts, Presents, Futures, University of Guelph, Aug. 14-16, 2024 (deadline: Mar. 15, 2024)
The Canadian Society for Trans Philosophy (CSTP) and the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP) invite the submission of abstracts for inclusion in our upcoming conference, “Trans/Feminist Philosophy: Pasts, Presents, Futures.” The conference will be held August 14-16, 2024, at the University of Guelph. We encourage interdisciplinary submissions, as well as submissions which challenge […]
Update on the Upcoming Eastern APA, Technology, and Philosophy of Disability
Yesterday, I posted on BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY about my computer problems in advance of the Eastern APA, requesting assistance from tech savvy philosophers who would be in New York for the meeting there this week. As I said in the post, computer mishaps have long been among my worst nightmares: writing for a broad audience is […]
CFP: First Feminist Philosophy of Physics Workshop, University of Michigan/Hybrid, Jun. 20-21, 2024 (deadline: Jan. 19, 2024)
We invite submissions from scholars at all career stages to the first Feminist Philosophy of Physics Workshop, to be held on June 20-21, 2024 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and hybrid on Zoom. We welcome submissions to present talks (20 min or 30 min), to organize panel or workshop discussions, as well as […]
CFP: The Philosophy of Sexual Violence (deadline: Dec. 1, 2023)
We invite full submissions for an edited Routledge volume, The Philosophy of Sexual Violence Eds. Yolonda Wilson (Saint Louis University) and Georgi Gardiner (University of Tennessee) Submission Deadline: 1st December 2023 We welcome submission of standard academic essays (5,000-10,000 words). We also keenly encourage philosophical submissions with innovative or alternative formats, such as: Personal narratives and reflections […]
Remembering Catherine Hundleby, CRCs, and the Exclusion of Disabled Philosophers in Canada
After Catherine Hundleby’s death on August 26th was announced, I wanted to write a post about my sentiments and interactions with her, in part because they seemed distinct from the sentiments that other feminist philosophers began to express. Prominent among the remarks that others made in memory of Catherine were testaments about the foundational role […]
Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4, Dec. 14-15, 2023
I am finalizing the schedule for this year’s edition of the conference that I co-organize with Jonathan Wolff, under the auspices of The Alfred Landecker Chair in the School of Government at Oxford. The conference will take place on December 14 and 15, 1pm-6pm GMT; 8am-1pm EST; 5am-10am PST. As in the past, the conference […]
Obituary for Evelyn Fox Keller (1936-2023)
[Renowned feminist philosopher and historian of science, Evelyn Fox Keller, died on Friday, September 22, 2023. The obituary below was published on the MIT News site on September 25, 2023. You can find the original obituary here.] Description of photo below: Evelyn Fox Keller smiles widely for the camera. She is wearing oval wire glasses, […]
