ActforPal invites academics & allies worldwide to a webinar in solidarity with colleagues in Gaza. This is an open and inclusive space. This is an open and inclusive space where anyone can speak, reflect, and stand united in response to the ongoing devastation faced by Palestinian academics. At the heart of the session are the […]
More on Snyder, Shore, and Stanley Go to Toronto
I encourage readers/listeners of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY who have followed discussions around these events to watch/listen to the captioned video (linked below) that Timothy Snyder made and posted to his Substack today. In the video, Snyder identifies and responds to several criticisms that many commentators have made about him and Marci Shore since the public announcement […]
Quote of the Week (and It’s Only Thursday): UBC Philosopher Andrew Irvine, Settler Denialism, and the Emboldened Right in Canadian Academe
This week’s quote-of-the-week post (though it’s only Thursday) addresses the rise of the right in Canadian philosophy and Canadian academia in general. In particular, I want to point out that today’s menu at Canada’s right-wing national publication, The National Post, includes an op-ed by UBC Okanagan philosopher Andrew Irvine, one of four UBC faculty members […]
This Settler State Is Not the 51st State of America
Canadian Faculties Call for the Resignation of NDP MP Selina Robinson, BC Minister of Post-Secondary Education
February 4, 2024 We write as concerned Canadian faculty organizations whose combined membership spans universities and colleges across the country. Among us are faculty with expertise in Palestine Studies, Middle East Studies, Israel Studies, Jewish Studies, Education, History, Geography, Settler Colonial and Islamic Studies. We stand together to call unequivocally for the removal of B.C. […]
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 […]
CFP: Ways of Being in the World: An Introduction to the Indigenous Philosophy of Turtle Island (deadline: May 15, 2022)
Call for Papers: Ways of Being in the World: An Introduction to the Indigenous Philosophy of Turtle Island. Timeline: Book chapters due May 15, 2022. This book is under contract with Broadview Press. Original publication was planned for 2022, but has now been pushed to 2023. Complications due to the global Covid 19 pandemic have made […]
Special Issue on Indigeneity and Disability
The current issue (vol. 41, no. 4, 2021) of the interdisciplinary journal Disability Studies Quarterly is devoted to the theme “Indigeneity and Disability.” The TOC for the issue and links to its contents are below. Vol. 41, No. 4 (2021) Fall 2021 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v41i4 Table of Contents Prefatory Matter Indigeneity & Disability: Kinship, Place, and Knowledge-MakingJuliet […]
A Note to/About Jason Stanley; And Here Is My Presentation to Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 2
On Twitter recently, I wrote that although Jason Stanley and I share some commonalities, there are differences between us, an observation that he seems to have appreciated. One of the differences between us, I noted, is that I’m dangerous for philosophy and he’s not. (As one nondisabled feminist philosopher put it to me years ago, […]
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