After the outstanding events and radicalizing events that took place last week at Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, many of us need to wind down a bit. So, for this month’s installment of Dialogues on Disability, I am reposting Sofia Jeppsson’s very popular interview from December 2022. Look forward to a new installment of […]
Preliminary Program for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5, Online, December 11-13, 2024
I have copied below the preliminary program for Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 5 which takes place online December 11-13, 2024, 13:00-18:00 GMT/UK Time (=ET+5). Information about registration for this event will appear here soon. Check back often! (All times in GMT/UK Time=ET +5) WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11 13:00-13:05 INTRODUCTIONS Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, June 19, 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 […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Shay Welch
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the one hundred and tenth 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 […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, May 15, 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 […]
From Philosophy of m/Madness to m/Mad Philosophy, Oxford, Sept. 25-26, 2024
EVENT DESCRIPTION The conference will explore what it means to think about m/Madness philosophically. The title reflects our interest in ‘madness’ as both a speculative (lower case ‘m’) and a practical (upper case ‘M’) term. Furthermore, it reflects our interest in the different ways in which m/Madness might be approached – either as an object […]
MAiD for Addicts and Mad People (Guest post)
MAiD for Addicts and Mad People by T. Virgil Murthy Months ago, I wrote an article for the Addict Collective blog titled “Does the 2024 MAiD Expansion Apply to Addicts?” I never published it—I reasoned it was probably unwise to remind the MAiD architects about our existence—but my confusion and worry steadily mounted. Press releases […]
Madpeople’s Coping Mechanisms, Oxford/Hybrid, Sept. 25-6, 2023
Organized by Paul Lodge and Sofia Jeppsson Madpeople/service users/psychiatric patients are a heterogenous group. Indeed, there’s evidence both of variety on a neurological level and of quite different phenomenologies even among people with the same diagnosis (e.g., bipolar disorder or schizophrenia) and/or the same “symptom label” (e.g., mania or thought insertion). It should therefore not […]
Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Sofia Jeppsson
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the ninety-third 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 discussion with disabled philosophers […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, December 21, 2022, 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 […]
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