The J-Series is pleased to host Dr. Shelley Tremain, Dr. Johnathan Flowers, and Corinne Lajoie in a panel discussion that will open lines of inquiry into “access” by exploring spaces, temporalities, and affects within higher education. Celebrating the panelists’ contributions to the forthcoming Bloomsbury Guide to the Philosophy of Disability (edited by Shelley Tremain), this event recognizes the ongoing labour of disability communities in asking these questions: Who are we building worlds of access for? Who is included in the processes of knowledge creation and world-building? What conceptual and disciplinary commitments animate these processes? Questioning disability access in an equitable manner requires accountability to lived experiences of disability ("nothing about us without us") but also requires grappling with the heterogeneity of disability experiences. Book contributors Dr. Joshua St. Pierre, Dr. Kristin Rodier, and Dr. Emily Douglas will be responding.

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ASL interpretation will be provided at this event.

Bios:
Dr. Shelley L. Tremain holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from York University (Canada), has taught in Canada, the U.S., and Australia, and publishes on a range of topics, including: philosophy of disability, Michel Foucault, feminist philosophy, ableism in philosophy, social metaphysics and epistemology, and biopolitics/bioethics. From April 2015, Tremain has coordinated, edited, and produced Dialogues on Disability, the ground-breaking and critically acclaimed series of interviews that she is conducting with disabled philosophers. Tremain is the author of Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2017), the manuscript for which was awarded the 2016 Tobin Siebers Prize for Disability Studies in the Humanities; the editor of two editions of Foucault and the Government of Disability (University of Michigan Press, 2005; 2015), the first of which has been translated into Korean; and the editor of The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability (forthcoming).

Dr. Johnathan Flowers is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge. Flowers’s research areas include African American intellectual history, Japanese Aesthetics, American Pragmatism, Philosophy of Disability, and Philosophy of Technology. Flowers also works in the area of Science and Technology Studies, where he applies insights from American Pragmatism, Philosophy of Race, and Disability Studies to current issues in human/computer interaction, artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Corinne Lajoie is a PhD candidate in Philosophy and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Their research explores the question of access by bringing into dialogue philosophy of disability, phenomenology, and feminist ethics.