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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 […]
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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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just returned from Dallas
where I had a wonderful time at CVMST’s 3rd annual conference. I especially enjoyed talks by Kim Knight (on the explosion of restrictions on and new legislation chipping away at reproductive rights, at a time when “vagina” and “uterus” are considered vulgar words in Congress!), Jessica Murphy (on greensickness in English Renaissance literature), and Adrienne Asch […]
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CFP: 2nd Annual Kristeva Circle Meeting
This is a call for abstracts for the second meeting of The Kristeva Circle, to be held March 27-30, 2014 at Vanderbilt University. Keynote speakers are Julia Kristeva (University of Paris VII Diderot) and Tina Chanter (DePaul University). Please submit abstracts (500-750 words) on any topic related to the work of Julia Kristeva, to kristevacircle@gmail.com. We welcome submissions from across all disciplines. […]