Category: Conferences
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Visual Impression of our latest conference: Care, Aesthetics, and Repair this January!
Care, Aesthetics, and Repair: Join us at the 3rd CERC conference this January!
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COVID-19 pandemic: A Crisis of Care
By Andreas Chatzidakis, Jamie Hakim, Jo Littler, Catherine Rottenberg, Lynne Segal (Care Collective) The novel coronavirus outbreak is a new global crisis. Yet the current crisis is not only the result of a new pathogen circulating around the world. It is also a crisis of care. Here the Care Collective (Andreas Chatzidakis, Jamie Hakim, Jo…
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Call for abstracts Digital Health Care
Workshop Data and Stories in Digital Health Care. Mixed Methods for Medical Humanities The workshop “Data and Stories in Digital Healthcare” examines the mutual entanglements of the humanities with medicine and data science. It focuses on the variety of forms in which information about health and illness travel between different stakeholders, such as patients and…
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Call for papers: Asymmetrical Ethics
Toward an Asymmetrical Ethics: Power, Relations, and the Diversity of Subjectivities International conference organised November 13 to 15 by the Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge at the School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University. Intersubjective relations In Western societies and philosophical traditions, the egalitarian relation between rational subjects has since long been understood as an…
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10 reasons to attend Global Carework Summit
The Carework Network is organizing a three-day conference to bring together carework researchers from across disciplines and across the globe; June 9-11, 2019, Toronto, Ontario. Top ten reasons to attend the Global Carework Summit in Toronto Be inspired and challenged by Juliana Martinez-Franzoni, a leading scholar of care in Latin America, whose innovative work draws…
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Caring democracy: current topics in the political theory of care
Introduction In 2013, political care ethicist Joan Tronto((Joan C. Tronto is Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota, Professor Emerita at the City University of New York and initiator of the Care Ethics Research Consortium www.care-ethics.org.)) applied a care-ethical view to democratic theory in her book Caring democracy: Markets, equality and justice, and invited scholars…
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Call for Papers: Second Global Carework Summit
The Carework Network is organizing a three-day conference to bring together carework researchers from across disciplines and across the globe; June 9-11, 2019, Toronto, Ontario. Carework Network The Carework Network is an international organization of scholars and advocates who focus on the caring work of individuals, families, communities, paid caregivers, social service agencies and state bureaucracies. Care needs are…
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Call for abstracts: Ethics in action
EACME annual conference, September 2018 Amsterdam Ethics in Action The significance of ethics in clinical practice, education & research Doing ethics consists of reflecting, reasoning and contributing to a good life: in practice, with practice and for practice. Ethics is about thinking what it means to realize a better practice and which moral competences are needed in order to…
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Call for Papers: Why Care?
July 2018 the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI Berlin) organizes the symposium Why Care? This symposium will explore aesthetic and political practices of care in their historical dimensions and contemporary manifestations across critical disability studies, crip, queer, feminist theories, political theory, and literary studies. Call for Papers From care for the environment to care for…
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Call for Papers: Societas Ethica’s Annual Conference
Call for Papers: Feminist Ethics and the Question of Gender Societas Ethica’s 55th Annual Conference, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium — 23-26 August 2018 Why should feminist ethics and gender be a central focus in the work of philosophical and theological ethics? While this question has been discussed within the fields of feminist and gender theory, philosophers and theologians have often…