The vice chancellor of North-West University (NWU), Optentia Research Focus Area, in South Africa invited prof. Baart during his last visit (Feb.-March 2020) to deliver an academic lecture about the question how the NWU could be (more fully) a care ethical university. Continue reading Becoming a care ethical institution
Category Archives: Learning Events
When the state meets the street
Bernardo Zacka, political theorist and as such assistant professor at MIT Political Science, Cambridge, USA delivered a lecture at the University of Humanstic Studies in the Netherlands. The lecture centred around his research publication When the state meets the street: public service and moral agency. Continue reading When the state meets the street
Meaning in Spiritual Care
Gaby Jacobs, member of the research network Critical Ethics of Care, presents a summary of her inaugural lecture Meaning in Spiritual Care (2020) in the following article.
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Every moment has potential’….. but for what?
Dr. Stacy Clifford Simplican (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA) delivered a lecture at the symposium on social inclusion, organized by the chair Citizenship and Humanisation of the Public Sector at the University of Humanistic Studies (Utrecht, the Netherlands). Continue reading Every moment has potential’….. but for what?
The Theme of ‘class’ in care-ethical research
The Critical Ethics of Care research network of the Dutch foundation Critical Ethics of Care reflects on whether care-ethical research should engage more with the theme of ‘class’.
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Social inclusion critically reflected
Dr. Stacy Clifford Simplican (senior lecturer at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA) is renowned for her critical reflections on the concepts of social inclusion and participation. We asked her about her views on the thinking of Eva Feder Kittay and Joan Tronto. Continue reading Social inclusion critically reflected