Category: Panels and Conferences

  • CFA – The Second Annual Lehigh University Conference in Philosophy – Philosophy Unbound

    Call for Abstracts The Second Annual Lehigh University Conference in Philosophy Philosophy Unbound Thursday October 23—Friday 24, 2014 Keynote speaker: Louise Antony, University of Massachusetts Amherst The Lehigh University Philosophy Department invites submissions for our Second Annual Conference in Philosophy. We are interested in submissions that challenge, redraw, or even erase traditional divisions either within…

  • 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)

  • 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.        …

  • 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…

  • 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…