Contemporary Philosophy of Race Conference February 8-10, 2024 Deadline for Application: October 10th, 2023 Organized by Alisha Sharma and Sofie Vlaad Queen’s University at Kingston, Philosophy Department and Online Keynote Speakers: Chike Jeffers (Dalhousie University), Katherine McKittrick (Queen’s University), and Muindi Fanuel Muindi (Independent Scholar) In recent years, philosophy of race has moved from the […]
Inaugural Stuart Hall Essay Prize (deadline: Nov. 6, 2023)
The Stuart Hall Foundation is pleased to invite submissions for the inaugural Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, the prize invites new and unpublished writing that connects with Stuart Hall’s ideas and impacts broad public discourse. The prize will award £2,000 to a selected writer whose […]
More Endorsements for The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability
I am preoccupied with work on the proofs for The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability but decided to take a break in order to share with you these non-anonymous endorsements of the book from Professors Tracy Isaacs and Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson. Here’s what Isaacs and Erlenbusch-Anderson have to say about this forthcoming collection: This trailblazing […]
Pre-ordering The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability
Yesterday, we ran a wonderful two-part pre-publication launch of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability (which I have edited) at the truly incredible hybrid philoSOPHIA conference that Andrea Pitts and Elisabeth Paquette organized. The entire conference was a testament to how a well-planned hybrid conference can be engaging and inclusive, as well as build […]
philoSOPHIA 2023 Conference Schedule, Hybrid, Jun. 1-3, 2023
Thursday, June 1st 4PM – 5PM Registration 5PM – 6:30PM In-person Keynote #1: Stephanie Rivera Berruz, “Morir-Vivir Beyond the Human: Partial Ecological Connections and the Reconceptualization of Life” Moderator: Martin Shuster 6:30PM – 8PM Refreshments 6:30-7:30PM Projective Eye Gallery Tour with Adam Justice “Awaiting the Vertical, featuring work by Halide Salam” Friday, June 2nd 8AM […]
CFP: Philosophy of the Black Experience, Howard University, Mar. 28-30, 2024 (deadline: Aug. 1, 2023)
The demand/struggle for racial equality, identity, and justice by populations racialized as Black (and other people of color) in the United States and anywhere around the world remain issues of pressing philosophical concern. The struggle for equality and justice requires not only theoretical articulations but also practical accounts upon which to make the demands. Thus, […]
Why You Shouldn’t Take Too Seriously This Entry on Disability in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Within both the discipline and profession of philosophy, the exact nature of the differences between two methodological approaches—namely, (so-called) analytic philosophy and (so-called) continental philosophy—has been a contested matter and source of controversy for quite some time, in part because these approaches embody disparate institutional positions with respect to status and prestige. Although analytic philosophy […]
Dialogues on Disability With Elaina Gauthier-Mamaril and Johnathan Flowers
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I would like to welcome you to the eighth-anniversary installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I’m 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 about a range […]
Dialogues on Disability on Wednesday, April 19th: Eighth Anniversary Installment
“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 […]
CFP: STRUCTURAL INJUSTICE IN PHILOSOPHY (deadline: Jul. 31, 2023)
Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) & Bloomsbury Academic Volume on Structural Injustice in Philosophy Editors: Milana Kostic (MAP), Maeve McKeown (University of Groningen), and Robin Zheng (University of Glasgow) Deadline for 500-word abstracts/pitches: 31 July 2023 We invite submissions on the use of structural injustice as a conceptual tool for explaining underrepresentation and related issues in […]
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