Sorry--my message should have had a different subject line: 46th Annual International Merleau-Ponty Circle this week on the theme "Fits and Misfits" Best, Joel ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Joel Michael Reynolds <j.reynolds999@gmail.com> Date: Sat, Nov 5, 2022 at 8:55 PM Subject: Re: [SDS Members]Book Launch: Disability and Social Justice in Kenya To: Cc: DS-HUM@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU <DS-HUM@listserv.umd.edu>, SDS Members < sds-discuss@lists.disstudies.org> Dears Friends and Colleagues, Georgetown university is holding the 46th Annual International Merleau-Ponty Circle <https://www.merleauponty.org/>next week (November 10-12), which may be of interest to some of you. The theme of the conference is "Fits and Misfits: Rethinking Disability, Debility, and the World with Merleau-Ponty." The conference is directed by Joel Michael Reynolds. Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Emory University) is the keynote, whose talk is entitled, “The Romance of Norm Mates and Miss Fitz.” The conference will also feature invited lectures from Alia Al-Saji (McGill University), Helen Fielding (Western University), and David Morris (Concordia University). From the conference description: "Much of Merleau-Ponty’s thought centers around the idea that we find ourselves not separate from the world, nor even “in” it, but fully intertwined with it--caught up in a web of relations and forces that shape experience through and through. Certain relations and forces shape us in ways that are definitive for our sense of “fitting” or “misfitting,” a framework I invoke from Rosemarie Garland-Thomson’s seminal article, “Misfits: A Feminist Materialist Disability Concept” (Hypatia, 2011). Fits and misfits, in Garland­ Thomson’s sense, are everywhere, once you know how to look for them: spatial, placial, architectural, equipmental, technological, economic, social, cultural, and so on. The annual conference will feature the M. C. Dillon prize and lecture for the best graduate student paper submission. The keynote lecture will have live ASL interpretation." Please feel free to distribute the conference announcement and link to anyone you think might be interested. Registration information is here <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/46th-annual-meeting-of-the-international-merleau-ponty-circle-2022-registration-412287160997> . Best regards, *Joel Michael Reynolds, Ph.D. (he/they)* <https://www.joelreynolds.me/> *Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Disability Studies, *Georgetown University *Senior Research Scholar, *Kennedy Institute of Ethics *Senior Bioethics Advisor, *The Hastings Center *Faculty Scholar, *The Greenwall Foundation *Faculty Fellow, Ethics Lab* *Editor*, The Journal of Philosophy of Disability <https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/journal?openform&journal=pdc_jpd> *Series Editor*, Oxford Studies in Disability, Ethics, and Society <https://oxforddisabilitystudies.com/> *Director*, 46th Annual International Merleau-Ponty Circle <https://www.merleauponty.org/conference/> Recent books: *The Life Worth Living: Disability, Pain, and Morality <https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-life-worth-living> * (2022) <https://www.amazon.com/Life-Worth-Living-Disability-Morality/dp/1517907780/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1SUJHTKUZOZCS&keywords=reynolds+life+worth+living&qid=1654095274&sprefix=reynoll%2Caps%2C171&sr=8-1> *The Disability Bioethics Reader* <https://www.routledge.com/The-Disability-Bioethics-Reader/Reynolds-Wieseler/p/book/9780367220037> (2022) <https://www.routledge.com/The-Disability-Bioethics-Reader/Reynolds-Wieseler/p/book/9780367220037> Recent articles: Disability and White Supremacy <https://philpapers.org/archive/REYDAW-2.pdf> | What If There's Something Wrong With Her? <https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=REYHBT&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FREYHBT.pdf> | The Harm of Ableism <https://philpapers.org/rec/PEATHO-4> | Against Intuitive Horribleness <https://philpapers.org/rec/REYAIH-2> | Quality of Life, Disability Status, and Clinical Decision Making in Surgery <https://philpapers.org/go.pl?id=BINFTE&proxyId=&u=https%3A%2F%2Fphilpapers.org%2Farchive%2FBINFTE.pdf> Please note that I do not (well, I try to not) respond to emails from 5pmEST/GMT-5 on Fridays to 2pmEST/GMT-5 on Mondays.