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 […]
Feminism, Ableism, and Medical Assistance in Dying, Mar. 13, 2023, UBC/Online
Sponsor: Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia When: Monday, March 13, 12:30pm-2:00pm Pacific Time Where: DLA Piper Hall, Room 104, and virtually EVENT DESCRIPTION This panel discusses Track 2 MAiD in Canada: medical assistance in dying for people with disabilities who are not at the end of their natural lives. Presenters […]
Ableism, CRCs, and Academic “Freedom”
“The only people who have benefitted from equity initiatives in Canadian universities are nondisabled cis white women.” I articulated the sentence above during a portion of last week’s 3-hour final group session of the UBC study designed to identify why few disabled academics hold Canada Research Chairs at UBC and throughout Canada. (I referred to […]
Open Letter to the Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Canada)
Dr. Patrizia Albanese, President, Board of Directors, Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences275 Bank Street, Suite #300Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2L6federation@ideas-idees.ca June 7, 2019 Atten: Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences The Canadian Disability Studies Association-Association canadienne d’études sur le handicap (CDSA-ACÉH) Executive Board is writing to express our condemnation of the racist events […]
BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 