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The Department of Gender & Race Studies presents:
Politics and Democracy
A Lecture Series for 2018 and 2019
Shelley L. Tremain holds a Ph.D. in philosophy, has taught in Canada, the
U.S., and Australia, and publishes on a range of topics, including (feminist)
philosophy of disability, Foucault, ableism in feminist philosophy, and
bioethics. 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, and the editor of Foucault and the Government of Disability
(University of Michigan Press, 2005; 2015). She was also the 2016 recipient
of the Tanis Doe Award for Disability Study and Culture in Canada.
Tremain coordinates the Discrimination and Disadvantage blog, where she posts
Dialogues on Disability, the acclaimed series of interviews that she is
conducting with disabled philosophers.
Please join us at the Department of Gender and Race Studies at the
University of Alabama for an exciting lecture.
This lecture will be open to University of Alabama faculty, students, and the general public.
Friday, November 9th
Gorgas Library 205 / 3:00-5:00 pm
“Feminist Philosophy of Disability
and Genealogy: An Intervention”
presented by Shelley Tremain