Category: Calls for papers/abstracts

  • Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “Philosophy and Disability” for HUMANA.MENTE: Journal of Philosophical Studies

    Here is a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on “Philosophy and Disability” for HUMANA.MENTE: Journal of Philosophical Studies

  • Call for Course Proposals –  Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy

    The HCSPiP seeks proposals from creative philosophy instructors to lead one of three innovative two-week undergraduate seminars, tentatively scheduled for June 25 through July 8, 2023. Classes should be aimed at undergraduates, and be active, engaging, and inclusive for all participants. We are open to proposals for teaching any kind of philosophical content, utilizing any…

  • Essay Prize

    The Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy has a new paper prize. The S. Kay Toombs Prize is for the best paper addressing disability, ableism, research in philosophy of disability, and/or research in critical disability studies by a junior scholar (scholar who has earned a PhD in the five years prior to the submission date)…

  • Call for Proposals – AAPT Conference on Teaching Philosophy

    Conference dates and location 22-25 July, 2020 Otterbein University Westerville, Ohio (near Columbus) Topics Interactive workshops related to teaching and learning philosophy at any educational level are welcome. We encourage creative approaches to individual or panel workshops on: Innovative and successful teaching strategies, course/ assignment design How work in other disciplines can improve the teaching…

  • Call for Contributors: Black Panther and Philosophy

    Tim Brown at the University of Washington is co-editing a popular collection on the film Black Panther and Philosophy. He and his co-editor are interested in getting disability studies perspectives represented in the collection. Here’s the call for contributors.

  • 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.

  • 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 granted that you can’t get…

  • 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 opportunity to contribute to the…

  • 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…

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