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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.
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Virtual Conference this week! Philosophy, Disability and Social Change (Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford)
I’m so thrilled to present this week at an exciting conference organized by Shelley Tremain and Jonathan Wolff. I will share my work on risk, “Risking Ourselves: The Politics and Persons of Risk,” on Friday at 12:30 pm EST. Find registration information, the program, and other details below! The Philosophy, Disability and Social Change online…
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Call For Proposals: Florida Prisons in Uncertain Times, Virtual Conference, Apr. 9-10, 2021 (deadline: Dec. 1, 2021)
I am a co-director of Stetson’s Higher Education in Prison program, Community Education Project (CEP). We are hosting a virtual conference, “Florida Prisons in Uncertain Times,” to be held on April 9 and 10, 2021. Here is our Call for Proposals. The deadline for submissions is December 7th, and you can submit your proposal here. We are focused in Florida…
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Upcoming talk: Disability Justice at Penn State Law, 2/21
I’m looking forward to giving a talk on disability justice at Penn State Law in State College, PA next week! The title of the discussion is: What is Disability Justice? When: Friday, February 21, 1 to 2:15 pm Where: Lewis Katz 118 The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity and…
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New SEP entry published: Critical Disability Theory
After two long years of work, my entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Critical Disability Theory, has been published. Take a look!
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New essay published: What Future People Will There Be?
I wrote a brief reflection on the subversive imaginations of N. K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor, linking their protagonists to neurodiversity. The essay is one of several introducing the new issue of the Museum of Science Fiction’s Journal of Science Fiction, now live, with the special theme of disability studies! Sami Schalk and Michael Bérubé…
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CFP: philoSOPHIA 2020
CFP: philoSOPHIA 14th Annual Conference, May 14-17, 2020 Hosted by Kelly Oliver at Vanderbilt University The 14th annual meeting of philoSOPHIA will run from the evening of Thursday, May 14, to Sunday, May 17, 2020, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Plenary speakers are Kathryn Sophia Belle (Penn State), Lisa Guenther (Queens University), and Tracy…