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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…

  • Celebrating Difference: An Animation

    Watch this Animation by Doortje Kal, and with a voice-over by Alistair Niemeijer. Visit the website on ‘Quarter-making’ here: https://www.kwartiermaken.nl/english. For academic readings, please visit: https://www.cogitatiopress.com/socialinclusion/issue/view/54

  • 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,…

  • 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…