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13:00, 14 December 2023 - 18:00, 15 December 2023
Online only
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This event is free - please register below to attend

Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4 (#PhiDisSocCh4) comprises presentations by disabled philosophers whose cutting-edge research challenges members of the philosophical community to (1) think more critically about the metaphysical and epistemological status of disability; (2) closely examine how philosophy of disability is related to the tradition and discipline of philosophy; and (3) seriously consider how philosophy and philosophers contribute to the pervasive inequality and subordination that disabled people confront throughout society.

This year’s conference will feature a 2-hour book launch of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability, a groundbreaking collection edited by Shelley Lynn Tremain that will be published on December 14. Registrants of the conference will receive discount codes to purchase paperback copies of the book at a 20% discount and e-books at a 35% discount. Several copies of this revolutionary book will be given away as prizes during the conference!

In addition, this year’s conference will include a 2-hour roundtable workshop facilitated by Melinda Hall and Johnathan Flowers. The roundtable is designed to enable its participants to jointly identify the mechanisms that produce the continuing exclusion of disabled philosophers from the profession of philosophy and to collectively consider strategies to transform the current professional and institutional position of disabled philosophers.

In its entirety, Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4 will highlight the diversity and range of approaches to critical philosophical work on disability and showcase the heterogeneity with respect to race, gender, nationality, sexuality, gender identity, culture, age and class of the community of disabled philosophers.

Philosophy, Disability and Social Change 4 is generously supported by the Alfred Landecker Chair in the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

Conference Programme

All times shown are in GMT (UK afternoons). The conference will take place online only. Captioning will be available.

Day 1 Thursday 14 December

Opening

13:00-13:05

Welcome and opening remarks

  • Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford) and Shelley Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)

Session 1

13:05-13:55

Identifying Principles of Justice for Emancipatory Research with Autistics

  • Presenter: Amandine Catala (Université du Québec à Montréal)
  • Chair: Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
13:55-14:05 Break

Session 2

14:05-14:55

Counting Stories

  • Presenter: C Dalrymple-Fraser (University of Toronto)
  • Chair: Cecilea Mun (Independent scholar)
14:55-15:05 Break

Session 3

15:05-15:55

Welfarism for Thee, but Not for Me: Intergenerational Erasure and Building
Addict and Mad Joy

  • Presenter: T. Virgil Murthy (Carnegie Mellon University)
  • Chair: Tracy Isaacs (Western University)
15:55-16:05 Break

Book Launch

16:05-18:00

The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability (Bloomsbury Academic)

  • Chair: Editor Shelley Lynn Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)
  • Participants:
    • Authors Mich Ciurria (University of Missouri at St. Louis)
    • Tommy J. Curry (University of Edinburgh)
    • Emily R. Douglas (Vanier College/Athabasca University)
    • Gen Eickers (University of Bayreuth)
    • Lori Gruen (Wesleyan University)
    • Stephanie Jenkins (Oregon State University)
    • Sofia Jeppsson (Umeå University)
    • Corinne Lajoie (Pennsylvania State University)
    • Nathan Moore (Unaffiliated)
    • Andrea J. Pitts (University of Buffalo)
    • Joshua St. Pierre (University of Alberta)
    • Desiree Valentine (Marquette University)

 

Day 2 Friday 15 December

Opening

13:00-13:05

Welcome and Preliminary Remarks

  • Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford) and Shelley Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)

Session 1

13:05-13:55

Podcasting as Disabled Praxis

  • Presenter: Élaina Gauthier-Mamaril (University of Edinburgh)
  • Chair: Jonathan Wolff (Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford)
13:55-14:05 Break

Session 2

14:05-14:55

Neoliberalism is an Ableism: On Human Capital and the Eugenic Commitment

  • Presenter: Will Conway (Stonybrook University)
  • Chair: Shelley Tremain (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)
14:55-15:05 Break

Session 3

15:05-15:55

Encountering Fat Denigration: Spatial Allowances and Victim Reversibility

  • Presenter: Kristin Rodier (Athabasca University)
  • Chair: August Gorman (Oakland University)
15:55-16:05 Break

Roundtable workshop

16:05-18:00

Situating Disability: The Factors and Politics of Disability Exclusion in Philosophy and Beyond

  • Facilitators: Melinda C. Hall (Stetson University) and Johnathan Flowers (California State University-Northridge)
  • Participants:
    • Robert Chapman (Durham University)
    • Jane Dryden (Mount Allison University)
    • Elvis Imafidon (SOAS)
    • Julie E. Maybee (Lehman College, CUNY)
    • Maeve McKeown (University of Groningen)

 

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