Category: News
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Dialogues on Disability: OPENING THE ARCHIVES
WELCOME! No new installment of the Dialogues on Disability series will be posted this month. Instead, I have decided to OPEN THE ARCHIVES of the … Dialogues on Disability: OPENING THE ARCHIVES
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Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Sofia Jeppsson
Hello, I’m Shelley Tremain and I’d like to welcome you to the ninety-third installment of Dialogues on Disability, the series of interviews that I am… Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Sofia Jeppsson
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Public lecture: UZH – H2R: Human Reproduction Reloaded
I’m so pleased to contribute to the “Human Reproduction Reloaded | H2R” project at the University of Zurich with a public lecture; my lecture is entitled “Transhumanism in Conflict with Disability Justice.” The talk will take place online on October 27th at 10:15 am EST (4:15 pm CET/Swiss time). For Zoom details, register via the…
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New book: Reclaiming Philosophy’s Disability History
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 –…
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NSF Grant to Teach Gene Editing
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…
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Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Amandine Catala
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
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Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 2 Conference (#PhiDisSocCh2), Online, Dec. 7-10, 2021 – Registration Now Open! — BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
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 […]…
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Dialogues on Disability: Shelley Tremain Interviews Maeve O’Donovan
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
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Virtual conference this week! Experiencing the Museum: Web and Digital Technologies as Tools for Museum Accessibility (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow)
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…
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Community Education Project receives Mellon grant
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.
Melinda C. Hall, PhD 