The Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine project at King’s College London are excited to announce a new colloquium series entitled ‘New Work on the Concepts of Health and Disease’, which will be running every other Thursday until early next year. The first talk will be given by Dr Robert Chapman on Thursday the 20th of October at […]
CFP: Phenomenology and Critique, Loyola University/Online, Nov. 4-6, 2022 (deadline: Jul. 15, 2022)
Phenomenology offers specific methods that disclose transcendental structures of experience which, in our everyday experience, are overlooked and presupposed. As such, it is understood to be a critical enterprise. Yet in recent years, there has been a ‘critical turn’ in phenomenology: phenomenology is also increasingly understood as a form of social critique capable of engaging, […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, April 21st, at 8 a.m. EDT
“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 […]
COVID-19 and The Naturalization of Vulnerability
Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and especially since its effects began to be more directly experienced in Canada, I have carefully watched growing discussions about the pandemic, “seniors,” disabled people, “vulnerability,” and nursing homes unfold on social media and in the mainstream popular press. In particular, I am attentive to the ways that […]