Category: News
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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…
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IJFAB blog
The International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics has developed a fantastic blog with a lot of really interesting contributors, including Eva Kittay, Margrit Shildrick, and many others. Ellen Feder recently posted an entry in memory of Ruby, the woman whose experiences with her intersex daughters helped Ellen develop her critique of normalizing surgeries (to…
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headed to Dallas for CVMST
Early tomorrow I leave Lansing for Dallas to attend and present a paper at the 2013 Conference on Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology at the University of Texas at Dallas. I’m looking forward to Adrienne Asch’s keynote speech!
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I successfully defended my dissertation!
I am proud to announce that I am a newly-minted PhD. Thank you so much to all of my supporters, especially my family and my mentor Kelly Oliver!
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paper comes out in IJFAB
My paper, “Reconciling the Disability Critique and Reproductive Liberty: The Case of Negative Genetic Selection,” came out this month in the International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics. Available here. In it, I investigate the difficult tangle of questions over the assertion that one has a moral responsibility to choose one’s children (in particular, to choose against…
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pushing through!
Pushing through the final work on my dissertation, and looking forward to my upcoming trip to Nashville to participate in the Social and Political Thought Workshop! I can only imagine that the loss of tension I’ll feel next week will be highly disconcerting. I’ll be defending in just over a month! [UPDATE: FINI! on 4/14]
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accepted position at Stetson University
I am very excited to report that I am Florida-bound this fall! I start a tenure-track position at Stetson University’s Philosophy Department in August. My first semester I will teach Logic, Introduction to Philosophy, and Bioethics! Can’t wait! More updates to follow.
Melinda C. Hall, PhD 