Category: News
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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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Coming up: Posthuman and Political Care Ethics for Reconfiguring Higher Education Pedagogies
Coming up: Posthuman and Political Care Ethics for Reconfiguring Higher Education Pedagogies. Edited By Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas, Joan C. Tronto This bookmakes an important contribution to ongoing debates about the epistemological, ethical, ontological and political implications of relational ethics in higher education. By furthering theoretical developments on the ethics of care and critical posthumanism,…
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Book Launch, Thursday, October 15: Care Ethics, Democratic Citizenship and the State, by editors Petr Urban and Lizzie Ward
A public book launch/webinar with four presentations by the book contributors including Joan Tronto. About this Event The virtual book launch/webinar takes place on Zoom on Thursday, October 15 from 3pm to 4.30pm CEST (Prague/Bratislava time). The program includes an opening presentation of the book followed by four short talks by authors who contributed to the volume:…
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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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How South Korea copes and its impact on care
Hello all, I am Hee-Kang Kim from Korea University. Here is a short piece of information on how the government of South Korea is coping with the Corona virus and its impact on care. So far, Korea has rather successfully dealt with the Corona virus. Childcare facilities and schools are now suspended, but in the…
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Spreading the Care: The Call for Global Solidarity
by Merel Visse and Bob Stake In the course of a few weeks, our response to COVID-19 changed the world as we knew it. Suddenly, we became potential ‘vectors’ and ‘victims’ of the virus. We are forced to make small and large-scale decisions that affect our private and public lives. Hard decisions. Most of them…
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What Do You Care About? Contributing to the COST Action Stream.
At Bournemouth University on 25th April, a community meeting was arranged to bring together people to talk about what they care about. The purpose of the meeting was to contribute to a European network application for funding to the COST Action stream. That application is a partnership between members of CERC: BU Dr Tula Brannelly,…
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Our next conference is coming up in June 2026 in South Korea
Check back for news soon! Past conferences: January 2025, Care, Aesthetics, and Repair Local organizers: Louis van den Hengel and Jake Smit (University of Humanistic Studies). The third CERC conference brought together care ethicists and scholars; artists, designers, and makers; artistic researchers; performers and philosophers; educators; policymakers; and others to explore a fundamental question: What…
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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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Liz Newnham
Interview with Elizabeth Newnham, lecturer in Midwifery at Griffith University, Australia. 1. Where are you working at this moment? Since January this year, I have been working as a lecturer in midwifery at Griffith University. I currently teach in the Masters in Primary Maternity Care – a postgraduate programme that implements the ‘Framework for Quality…
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