Category: News
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first days at Stetson…
…have been wonderful. I’m getting settled into my office and prepping my courses. Also visited the Ponce de Leon Springs State Park, sought alligators near Lake Woodruff, and have been visiting lots of restaurants to get acclimated! Can’t wait to meet my students.
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23rd anniversary of the ADA
Here’s a quick round up of great essays and news I’m reading to mark the 23rd anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. You will notice they are a mixed bag of joy and sadness: Kristin Duquette, “Leave No One Behind” Mike Ervin, “Why I Celebrate the ADA at 23” Rodger…
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eugenic sterilization
Originally posted on Living Archives on Eugenics Blog: courtesy of Miroslava Chavez-Garcia and from The Modesto Bee: Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval Published: July 7, 2013 Updated 8 hours ago By Corey G. Johnson — The Center for Investigative Reporting Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly…
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Society for Disability Studies 2013
Looking forward to this year’s SDS meeting, held in Orlando this week! Events begin on Wednesday, and I will present a paper about transhumanism and disability rights on Thursday afternoon. Check out the whole program.
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women in philosophy – when do they disappear?
I’ll definitely be thinking of the findings connected with this study while planning and executing my Intro to Phil courses this fall. “Adleberg and Thompson noted that we don’t know exactly why women leave philosophy, but thanks to SPP-supported research by Molly Paxton, Carrie Figdor and Valerie Tiberius, we have some idea of when: the…
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SCOTUS – human genes can’t be patented
This is a significant change that will bring with it decreased costs for genetic testing (like breast cancer screening, formerly exceedingly profitable for the company Myriad and exceedingly inaccessible for many many women, especially women of color). See the story here.
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Kelly Oliver’s Technologies of Life and Death – out now!
Kelly Oliver’s new book, Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment, is out now with Oxford University Press. The book takes a Derridean approach to questions raised by new technologies, including reproductive technologies and techniques of capital punishment. Oliver resists and complicates the misleading binaries of chance and choice, sex, nature and…
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new entry on Disability and Justice, SEP
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy recently published a new entry entitled “Disability and Justice” co-authored by David Wasserman, Adrienne Asch, Jeffrey Blustein and Daniel Putnam. It includes all kinds of important information and insights, including discussions of models of disability and disability identity. Find it here.
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JFFP publishes new issue on Kristeva
Details: Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy Vol 21, No 1 (2013) Table of Contents http://www.jffp.org/ojs/index.php/jffp/issue/view/57 Forum ——– Stockholm: Going Beyond the Human through Dance (1-12) Julia Kristeva Kristeva’s Sadomasochistic Subject and the Sublimation of Violence (13-26) Kelly Oliver Julia Kristeva and the Politics of Life (27-42) Sarah K. Hansen Narrative Ethics and Vulnerability: Kristeva…
Melinda C. Hall, PhD 