Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and twenty-fourth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am conducting with disabled philosophers and post to BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for […]
CFP: Decolonization and Global Justice, Hybrid, Jan. 22-24, 2026 **deadline extended to Jul. 15, 2025**
Decolonization & Global Justice22nd, 23rd, 24th of January, 2026 University of OregonEugene, Oregon Call For Participation Decolonization and Global Justice will be a three-day, transdisciplinary conference that brings together decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, Indigenous and anti-imperial feminist perspectives on contemporary global crises. We invite critical interventions against ongoing injustices, such as extractivism and exploitation in the Global South, […]
CFP: Decolonization and Global Justice, Hybrid, Jan. 22-24, 2026 (deadline: Jun. 30, 2025)
Decolonization & Global Justice22nd, 23rd, 24th of January, 2026 University of OregonEugene, Oregon Call For Participation Decolonization and Global Justice will be a three-day, transdisciplinary conference that brings together decolonial, postcolonial, anticolonial, Indigenous and anti-imperial feminist perspectives on contemporary global crises. We invite critical interventions against ongoing injustices, such as extractivism and exploitation in the Global South, […]
Krushil Watene: Indigenous Philosophy and Intergenerational Justice, Oct.17, 2024, 3-5pm AEST, Online
Thursday 17 October 2024 3 – 5pm AEST Ngāti Manu, Te Hikutu, Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, Tonga, University of Auckland Waipapa Taumata Rau This lecture details several insights for the pursuit and realisation of intergenerational justice that Indigenous philosophies contain. Following an explanation of some key Māori concepts in particular, I outline an intergenerational orientation that […]
The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language
The Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, edited by Ernie Lepore and Luvell Anderson, is now available! Description of the book’s cover: A cartoon image of a half-open mouth next to several speech balloons with the names of the editors on the top right corner. Underneath the image, the title of the book on a […]
Decolonising Philosophy Curriculum Toolkit
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
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 […]
My Virtual Presentation to philoSOPHIA, June 3, 2022: Disaster Ableism, Assisted Suicide, and Bioethics
The land on which I am currently located and from which I am joining this philoSOPHIA conference is the traditional ancestral territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishnaabeg, covered by the Upper Canada Treaties and directly adjacent to Haldimand Treaty territory. My presentation today is an expression of my commitment to engage in active solidarity with […]
National Indigenous Peoples Day (June 21, 2021)
Today is the 25th anniversary of National Indigenous Peoples Day in what is called “Canada.” There is a great deal to reflect upon as Indigenous people and settler Canadians struggle to find ways through Canada’s colonial past and present, ways that could transform our collective future. The recent discovery of the remains of 215 Indigenous […]
Ableism and Racism in Canadian Philosophy
I hope that by now many of you have read or listened to the comment thread of the June 25th post at Daily Nous about the large grant that the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada awarded to the “Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy” project. In case you didn’t, here […]
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