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Call for Abstracts – Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law and Bioethics
See this Call For Abstracts: Harvard 2018 Conference – Disability, Law, and Bioethics for what looks like a very interesting conference being sponsored by Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.
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Using QR Codes to Make Presentation Materials More Accessible
Updated July 24, 2018 because Google has stopped providing a URL shortener service. Updated September 19, 2019 in order to switch url shortener website. Handouts, PowerPoints and other presentation and teaching materials are often not fully accessible to people with disabilities and others who have trouble seeing or reading printed…
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Eastern APA Presidential Address- Professor Eva Kittay
Professor Eva F. Kittay (Stony Brook University, SUNY) will deliver the Eastern APA Presidential Address on Friday, January 6 from 4:45-7:00. Her talk is titled “The Moral Significance of Being Human.”
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Sessions on Disability at the 2017 Eastern APA Meeting
Society for Philosophy and Disability Topic: Respecting People with Disabilities in Public and Private Life Date: Friday, January 6 9:00 a.m.–Noon Chair: Eva Kittay (Stony Brook University, SUNY) Speakers: John Vorhaus (University College, London) “Identity, Self-Respect, and People with Profound Cognitive Impairments” Alice Crary (The New School) “The Moral Status…
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Event – A Joint Public Discussion on Philosophy and Cognitive Impairment with Eva Kittay and Richard M. Rubin
Eva Kittay and Richard M. Rubin will have a joint public discussion on philosophy and cognitive impairment sponsored by the New York Pragmatist Forum on Friday April 1 from 2-4pm at Fordham’s Lincoln Center Campus (113 W 60th St, New York, NY;Lowenstein 610). For further information, people should write to Marcus Schweiger…
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Sessions on Disability at the 2016 Eastern APA
Society for Philosophy and Disability: Philosophy of Disability: Ableism and Affect FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 11:15 A.M.–1:15 P.M. Chair: Adam Cureton (University of Tennessee) Speakers: Joel Michael Reynolds (Emory University) “The Charmed Pendulum of Ability: Ethical Theory at the Intersections of Ableism and Affect” Jennifer Scuro (The College of New…
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Congratulations to Eva Kittay, who will serve as Vice-President and then President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association
Our very own SPD board member, Professor Eva Kittay, has been elected to serve as Vice-President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association this year. She will serve as President of that division of the APA the following year. Please join us in congratulating Eva, who we know will…
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Election results
Four of our five board members stood for reelection this year and all four were reappointed to their positions. They are: Adam Cureton, President David Wasserman, Vice-President Leslie Pickering Francis, Secretary/Treasurer Eva Kittay, Member-at-Large Please join me in congratulating our board members and in thanking them for their service.
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CFA – Metaphors in Use
Call for Abstracts Metaphors in Use Third Annual Lehigh University Conference in Philosophy, October 8 & 9, 2015 Keynote Speakers: Elisabeth Camp, Rutgers; Bryan Van Norden, Vassar; Lynne Tirrell, U Mass, Boston SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JUNE 30, 2015 Metaphors do heavy lifting in philosophical thinking. Many of us take it for…
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Our Board Member, Eva Kittay, is on the Eastern APA ballot
Some of you may be interested to know that our very own Board Member, Professor Eva Kittay, is on the Eastern APA ballot this year. More information about her and the other candidates is available here. In light of her academic work on disability as well as her support of…
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Three disability sessions at the 2015 Pacific APA
APA Pacific Division, Vancouver April 1-4, 2015 Group Session: Society for Philosophy and Disability: Puzzles about Disability Saturday, April 4, 9:00-11:30am (Session G9L) Authors: Margaret Battin (University of Utah) Leslie Pickering Francis (University of Utah) Anita Silvers (San Francisco State University) Discussants: Sara Goering (University of Washington) Anita Ho (National University…
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Call for Participants for a workshop on “The Scope of Eugenics”
The Scope of Eugenics. The Canadian-based project Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada is pleased to announce a mentoring workshop for students and early career scholars that may be of interest to philosophers of disability. Banff Centre, Alberta, May 22-25, 2015. Substantial funding available for all participants, and an…
