Philosophies of Difference & PHI Research Group (Deakin) present INTERSECTIONS: FEMINIST CARE ETHICS AND DISABILITY STUDIES Guest Lecturer – Distinguished Prof. Eva Kittay (Stony Brook University, USA) Respondents – Dr. Mariko Konishi (Osaka University, Japan) and Dr. Martin Leckey (University of Melbourne) Abstract ‘Care and Disability’  A number of prominent disability scholars and activists have worked to free […]

  Since 2013, the Kurdish writer and artist Behrouz Boochani has been incarcerated on Manus Island by Australia’s immigration detention industry. In his recent book, No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison, Boochani argues that ‘Manus Prison Theory’ or the ‘Kyriarchal System’ is foundational to the Australian state. This seminar explores this idea with […]