Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Raymond Aldred

June is National Indigenous History Month in (so-called) Canada and today is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. Celebrations and commemorations will take place all across Turtle Island today. You can read Jenene Woolridge’s (Mi’kma) tribute to the day here. In recognition of National Indigenous Peoples Day and the particular struggles that Indigenous disabled philosophers […]

Lecture Series: Introduction to Indigenous Philosophy of North America, Online, Apr. 13-Jun.7, 2023

How can one become aware of the presuppositions of one’s own thinking without questioning familiar knowledge structures through other perspectives? In this lecture series, we want to break down the narrow meshes of Western thinking together and introduce the basic philosophical principles of the indigenous peoples of North America. From different perspectives, we will present, among […]

Special Issue on Indigeneity and Disability

The current issue (vol. 41, no. 4, 2021) of the interdisciplinary journal Disability Studies Quarterly is devoted to the theme “Indigeneity and Disability.” The TOC for the issue and links to its contents are below. Vol. 41, No. 4 (2021) Fall 2021 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v41i4 Table of Contents Prefatory Matter Indigeneity & Disability: Kinship, Place, and Knowledge-MakingJuliet […]

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. […]

Message From CAUT: Solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation (dated Feb. 19, 2020)

The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) expresses solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Nation and its Hereditary Chiefs who are insisting upon respect for their autonomy and sovereignty over their unceded land.  Forceful intervention by the police will not resolve this dispute.  Respectful and meaningful nation-to-nation dialogue, consistent with the principles of reconciliation, is needed. CAUT […]

CFP: 9th Annual Radical Democracy Conference: “Radical Ecologies,” New School of Social Research, Apr. 10-11, 2020 (deadline: Feb. 1, 2020)

The 9th annual Radical Democracy conference, sponsored by the Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research, will convene theorists and practitioners around the theme of Radical Ecologies. In the year that “climate strike” was named word of the year by Collins Dictionary, we seek to explore what opportunities for democratic resistance can […]

CFP: Conceptualizing Difference Conference (Jun. 8–9, 2020) and PhD Summer School (Jun. 10-11, 2020), University of Aberdeen (deadline: Feb. 7, 2020)

The idea of ‘difference’ governs today’s political thinking. Struggles for equality and justice are generally concerned with recognizing and protecting differences, not least because varieties of difference, including gender, sexuality, race, religion and language are used to justify political oppression, discrimination and exclusion. Difference has become axiomatic to political debate and therefore requires further reflection […]

Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, December 18th, at 8 a.m. EST

“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 “The Dialogues on Disability platform … has been very helpful to me, especially at times where I did not feel I belong in the world of […]