This is a kind reminder of the CfP below for a special issue “Azimuth. Philosophical Coordinates in Modern and Contemporary Age” (Issue 1/2026), co-edited by Matteo Santarelli (University of Bologna) and Chiara Montalti (University of Bologna) Theorising Disability and Neurodivergence. Philosophical Foundations and Challenges Disability and neurodivergence have garnered growing interest in philosophy, as evidenced by several essays and […]| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Syracuse University School of Education’s Center on Disability and Inclusion (CDI) has been awarded $250,000 per year for three years from the New York State Council on Developmental Disabilities (CDD). The grant will fund a pilot advocacy training curriculum and help CDI establish a statewide advocacy network for people with developmental disabilities and their family […] The post Center on Disability and Inclusion Awarded NYS Grant to Pilot Advocacy Training Network first appeared on Sy...| Syracuse University School of Education
I wrote about Valentin Haüy and his founding of the first school for blind children in 1785 in There Plant Eyes. My dear friend David Lowe, who is a photo specialist in the Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs at the New York Public Library, read my book (Thanks, David!), and because he did, when he saw Valentin Haüy’s…| M. Leona Godin
Dr. Jonathan Sterne passed away earlier this year. He was, in many ways, a model scholar and colleague. The intellectual ferment of the field now called “sound studies” is often traced to the sonic…| Sounding Out!
Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. –Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five On an almost visceral level, we may likewise remark that states of “latency” involve downward movement, as in the case of something falling by the wayside and lying unnoticed until its presence is felt. — Hans Gumbrecht, After 1945: Latency as Origin of […]| Sounding Out!
*As a 2023-24 Diamonstein-Spielvogal Fellow at the New York Public Library, I was asked to give a public lecture in the Vartan Gregorian Center for Research in the Humanities on March 8, 2024 called: “Image Description and the Critical Blind Gaze.” Below is the recording of the lecture—including questions from the star-studded audience!—followed by a cleaned-up transcript of my lecture… Read more The post Image Description and the Critical Blind Gaze * NYPL Public Lecture appeared f...| M. Leona Godin
