Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the fourth-anniversary installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I’m conducting with disabled philosophers and post here on the third Wednesday of each month. The series is designed to provide a public venue for discussion with disabled philosophers about a range […]
CFP: Philosophy and/of Inclusion-MAP CEU, Central European University, May 3-4, 2019 (deadline: Apr. 7, 2019)
Description: The CEU chapter of Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) is planning a two-day symposium organized around the topic of underrepresented or oppressed demographics within philosophy and academia, and society in general. Through presented work and facilitated workshops, we want this symposium to highlight standpoint specific thinking and experiences addressing the issues of inequality and inclusion, […]
Is This Post Substantive Enough?
After Justin Weinberg called my work on the metaphysics of disability “bullshit” in a comment on the Daily Nous blog back in the Spring of 2017, that blog began to rub me the wrong way. Since then, I have commented on it only once or twice. Nevertheless, I often glance at the posts on Daily […]
The Wits Centre for Critical Diversity Studies and Philosophy of Disability as Critical Diversity Studies
In October, I will give a keynote at the 2019 annual conference of the Wits Centre for Diversity Studies (WICDS) at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. The theme of the conference this year is “Disabling Normativities.” The 2017 conference that WICDS held, which was entitled “Troubling Seasons of Hate” and among whose […]
CFP: 13th Annual Meeting of the Alain Leroy Locke Society, Howard University, Apr. 12-13, 2019 (deadline: Mar. 1, 2019)
Alain Locke Conference April 12 – 13, 2019 Howard University Washington, DC 20059 Organizers: Dr. Jacoby Adeshei Carter (Howard University) and Dr. Corey L. Barnes (University of San Diego) Call for Papers: The Alain Locke Society invites submissions for our bi-annual Alain Locke Conference that will be held on April 12 – 13, 2019. We welcome submissions […]
Black Women Philosophers Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, Mar. 15-16, 2019
What does a philosopher look like? Inevitably, our mental pictures are shaped by the dominant imagery of the white male marble busts of Greco-Roman antiquity—Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Seneca—and their modern European heirs—Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Mill. Even today Western philosophy is largely male and overwhelmingly white—about 97 percent in the U.S., close to […]
Bibliographies and Introductory Reading Guides in Recognition of Black History Month
Last weekend, Patrick O’Donnell, a member of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY’s Facebook group who wrote a guest post for us last month, generously shared a number of his bibliographies and reading guides with the group in recognition of Black History Month. These bibliographies and reading guides are listed below with hyperlinks in the titles that will take […]
CFP: Glasgow MAP Workshop 2019 – Us and Them: Violence, Discrimination and Minorities, University of Glasgow, Apr. 11-12, 2019 (deadline: Mar. 4, 2019)
Keynote speakers: Mona Simion, University of St. Andrews Alessandra Tanesini, Cardiff University The Minorities and Philosophy chapter of the University of Glasgow is pleased to announce its annual workshop. This year, we will focus on violence and discrimination as experienced by minorities. Members of minorities, here broadly understood, are subjected to systematic forms of violence at the personal […]
Where Are the Women? (Guest Post)
Guest Post by Sarah Tyson Thank you for this opportunity to discuss my new book, Where Are the Women? Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better, and why I wrote it. Broadly, this book explores how practices of exclusion shape our practices of thinking. I was motivated to write Where Are the Women? after years […]
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice (Montgomery, Alabama) and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (Birmingham, Alabama) (UPDATED*)
In early November, I gave a guest lecture and informal seminar at the University of Alabama. I had been invited by Utz McKnight, who is the Chair of Gender and Race Studies and Professor of Political Science at U of A. On the day before these events, Utz took me to (among other places) the […]
