The Minorities and Philosophy chapter at Leeds is delighted to present:
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DISABILITY: A POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
What: Philosophy of disability
When: May 9th 2017
Where: University of Leeds
PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES ON DISABILITY: A POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE
What: Philosophy of disability
When: May 9th 2017
Where: University of Leeds
The philosophical interest on the topic of disability is fairly new and, given this, a lot of issues are yet to be explored. The aim of this conference is to bring together postgraduate students who work in this area and who engage with questions such as:
Call for Abstracts: Students who are currently undertaking or have recently completed a Master’s or a Doctoral programme are invited to submit abstracts ranging from between 400 to 600 words. They should be prepared for blind review, and should have an anticipated presentation length of 30 minutes (which will be followed by a 20-minute Q&A session). Submissions are to be sent to [email protected] by March 31st, 2017. We ask that submissions be in a standard file format (no cloud services please). The selected presenters will be notified of their acceptance by April 9th, 2017. It should go without saying, but we highly encourage submissions from those who are traditionally under-represented.
Keynote Speaker: We are delighted to announce that the conference will end with a talk on disability, ethics, and epistemology, given by Prof. Jackie Leach Scully, from Newcastle University.
More information is available here.
- Disabled or differently-abled?
- What is a disability?
- How should we think about disabilities?
- What is the relationship between a disability and the context in which it occurs?
- What are the metaphysically relevant aspects of disability?
- How should disability be seen from a political point of view?
- Is there an ethics of disability?
- What is the place of a phenomenology of disability?
- What ought to be changed in the way we see and consider disability? etc.
Call for Abstracts: Students who are currently undertaking or have recently completed a Master’s or a Doctoral programme are invited to submit abstracts ranging from between 400 to 600 words. They should be prepared for blind review, and should have an anticipated presentation length of 30 minutes (which will be followed by a 20-minute Q&A session). Submissions are to be sent to [email protected] by March 31st, 2017. We ask that submissions be in a standard file format (no cloud services please). The selected presenters will be notified of their acceptance by April 9th, 2017. It should go without saying, but we highly encourage submissions from those who are traditionally under-represented.
Keynote Speaker: We are delighted to announce that the conference will end with a talk on disability, ethics, and epistemology, given by Prof. Jackie Leach Scully, from Newcastle University.
More information is available here.