Title: How to do things with 鈥榯rans鈥� Abstract:聽What is the conceptual formation聽trans, and what can it do? While transgender studies is oriented聽against providing definitive answers, the field does possess a history and聽an emergent set of critical tools, both similar to and yet divergent from the more institutionally聽embraced field of queer studies. Drawing on Susan Stryker鈥檚…
Title:聽grounding metaphysics on Reddit posts, a work in progress. Abstract:聽In this presentation I will be walking us through the methodological challenges I face in writing the second chapter of my thesis. Broadly, my thesis is an attempt to ameliorate the concept of 鈥榞ender dysphoria鈥�. The first chapter argued that the current mainstream construals of gender…
Title: The Authority of Hunger Abstract: In this talk, I canvass moral considerations that suggest that hunger is morally authoritative. What’s more, trying to circumvent our hunger via current surgical and pharmaceutical technologies is risky, unpleasant, and often ineffective. I conclude by considering the case for avoiding even “silver bullet” appetite suppressants, for the sake…
This week we will be doing a reading group on Lorna Finlayson’s ‘There Is No Alternative: Constructiveness and Political Criticism’, chapter one of her book ‘The Political is Political’. Get in touch for a copy of the reading.
Title: Are kids oppressed? Child liberation beyond equal rights Abstract: Thinking about childhood often has a paradoxical quality. Children and young people are at once idealised and demonised. Childhood is romanticised in memory and imagination at the same time as it is the receptacle for our deepest traumas. The idea of children as an oppressed…
There will be no session this week as it conflicts with an amazing workshop on climate ethics. Please join us there: http://stacees.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/files/2024/05/Climate-Week-Conference-Schedule-%E2%80%93-May-2024-%E2%80%93-DU49273.pdf This event is part of the Inaugural 58吃瓜 Climate Week: https://stacees.ac.uk/university-of-st-andrews-climate-week/
Title:聽A Very Large Peruvian Painting Abstract:聽This talk is in some ways about a missing object in search of a satisfying narrative frame. More concretely, it鈥檚 about a painting. The painting was made in Lima in 1791, and was intended to be sent to King Charles IV of Spain, but, as a result of a series…
Sophie Grace Chappell聽will present her new book聽Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World聽– followed by bubbles to celebrate!