Melinda C. Hall, PhD

I’m so happy to announce that Reclaiming Philosophy’s Disability History: Cripping the Canon, is under contract with Routledge. Sarah Gorman and I are editing the volume, and it’s been in careful development for several years. I’m so glad that this significant text will be available for scholars and students! Our volume offers a disability – […]

It’s great to see the work of my incredible colleague Lynn Kee highlighted here: Professor Lynn Kee receives $300K NSF grant to teach gene editing. Happily, I’m part of this project! I am currently developing an ethics toolkit to contextualize, question, and critique gene editing, providing Stetson students learning gene editing with a critical element […]

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the eightieth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am … Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Amandine Catala

I am very happy to announce that registration is now open for the second iteration of the pathbreaking Philosophy, Disability and Social Change (#PhiDisSocCh2) conference! The conference is financially and technically supported by the Alfred Landecker Programme at the University of Oxford. This year’s conference builds upon the success of last year’s conference as an […] […]

Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the seventy-eighth installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I … Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Maeve O’Donovan

I’m thrilled to be presenting about my book, The Bioethics of Enhancement, for the Experiencing the Museum annual conference at Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. This Thursday, April 1st, I’ll also be discussing how technology can be used for those for whom it already purports (but fails) to work. Please join me at 11:30 […]

I am so thrilled to report that the higher education in prison program I co-lead, Community Education Project, is now a Mellon-funded program! Congrats to my colleagues, but also – and most importantly – our incarcerated students at Tomoka Correctional Institution in Daytona Beach, FL.

I’m so thrilled to present this week at an exciting conference organized by Shelley Tremain and Jonathan Wolff. I will share my work on risk, “Risking Ourselves: The Politics and Persons of Risk,” on Friday at 12:30 pm EST. Find registration information, the program, and other details below! The Philosophy, Disability and Social Change online […]

I am a co-director of Stetson’s Higher Education in Prison program, Community Education Project (CEP). We are hosting a virtual conference, “Florida Prisons in Uncertain Times,” to be held on April 9 and 10, 2021. Here is our Call for Proposals. The deadline for submissions is December 7th, and you can submit your proposal here.   We are focused in Florida […]

I’m looking forward to giving a talk on disability justice at Penn State Law in State College, PA next week! The title of the discussion is: What is Disability Justice? When: Friday, February 21, 1 to 2:15 pm Where: Lewis Katz 118 The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity and […]