Author: Adam Cureton
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Eastern APA Session 2013 – Society for Philosophy and Disability Session
SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28th GV-11. Society for Philosophy and Disability 6:00-9:00 p.m. Chair: David Wasserman (National Institutes of Health) Speakers: Heather Bradshaw (Bristol University) “Morphological Diversity: Can Societies Promote Disability Rights and Human Enhancement?” Melinda Hall (Stetson University) “Transhumanist Utopias: Rethinking Enhancement and Disability” Commentators: Adrienne Asch (Yeshiva University) Gregor Wolbring (University of Calgary)
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Disability at the Law and Society Association Conference – May 30-June 2 2013
2013 Annual Law and Society Assocation Conference Disability Legal Studies Panels (CRN#40) List of panels: I. Roundtable: Disability Legal Studies II. Access to Justice and the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities III. Law, Society, and Technologies: A Disability Perspective (Co-sponsored with CRN Law and Health) IV. …
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Postdoc positions on diversity – University of Deleware
Short version: $60,000 + $5,000 research and travel funds. Feb 1 deadline. The President’s Diversity Initiative at the University of Delaware, in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Diversity, invites applications from recent Ph.D. graduates for two postdoctoral positions. The purpose is to promote early career scholars who are doing work that furthers…
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Disability at the 2013 Pacific APA
Feminism and Disability Friday, March 29, 4-6 pm Chair: Pin-Fei Lu (Taipei Medical University) Speaker: Shelley Tremain (Independent Scholar), “Educating Jouy: A Case Study of Ableism in Feminist Philosophy” Commentators: Linda Martín Alcoff (Hunter College) Jana Sawicki (Williams College) Disability, Eugenics and Technology The session will be co-sponsored by the Living Archives on Eugenics in Western…
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Formal recognition by the Eastern APA
The Society for Philosophy and Disability has been formally recognized by the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association. We will now be able to host sessions at all three APA division meetings.
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2 sessions on disability at the 2013 Central APA in New Orleans
There will be two sessions on disability at the 2012 Central APA in New Orleans: Disability: New Perspectives on Justice, Well-being and Virtue Sponsored by the APA Committee on Inclusiveness Co-sponsored by the Committee on Philosophy and Law Friday Feb. 22, 3:00-6:00 PM. Chair: Thomas E. Hill, Jr., UNC Chapel Hill Adam Cureton, University of…
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Formal recognition by the Pacific APA
The Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association has welcomed the Society for Philosophy and Disability as a recognized association.
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Board of Directors elected
We are pleased to report that the first Board of Directors for the Society for Philosophy and Disability has been elected: President – Adam Cureton, University of Tennessee Vice-President – David Wasserman, Yeshiva University Secretary/Treasurer – Leslie PIckering Francis, University of Utah Member-at-Large – Anita Silvers, San Francisco State University Member-at-Large – Eva Feder Kittay,…
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Draft Constitution
Proposed Constitution posted