Melinda C. Hall, PhD

Philosophy Department, Stetson University

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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. 

    Melinda C. Hall

    25 Jun 2013
    News
  • 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 […]

    Melinda C. Hall

    18 Jun 2013
    News
  • 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.

    Melinda C. Hall

    13 Jun 2013
    News
  • 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 […]

    Melinda C. Hall

    12 Jun 2013
    News
    Books, News
  • 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.

    Melinda C. Hall

    9 Jun 2013
    News
  • Figure/Ground interviews Paul Rabinow

    Great interview here.

    Melinda C. Hall

    3 Jun 2013
    News
  • 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

    1 Jun 2013
    Journals, News
  • 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 […]

    Melinda C. Hall

    28 May 2013
    Elsewhere on the Web, News
  • 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 […]

    Melinda C. Hall

    25 May 2013
    Conferences
  • 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. […]

    Melinda C. Hall

    20 May 2013
    CFP, Conferences
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