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December 2018
Care as essential human condition
20th H e n r i N o u w e n L ecture STEPHAN POSNER Stephan Posner resists the ongoing downgrading of care as a ‘product’, a burden or a debit entry. Instead of this view giving and receiving care can be seen as an essential human condition. Reservations by email below or written to: Avenue Concordia 117, 3062 LG Rotterdam, The Netherlands See also the (Dutch) Flyer
Find out more »Intensive Course on Foundational Approaches, Contemporary and Educational Issues in the Field of Nursing Ethics
This course works from an interdisciplinary (philosophical, theological, nursing, clinical ethical) perspective. During the course, national and international experts will give presentations on various topics in the domain of nursing ethics. There will be time for intensive discussions. The language of instruction will be English.
Find out more »February 2019
European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Edinburgh 2019
The Centre for Creative Relational Inquiry (CCRI) fosters qualitative research that is situated, positioned, context-sensitive, personal, experience-near, and embodied; research that embraces the performative and the aesthetic; research that engages with the political, the social, and the ethical; research that problematizes agency, autonomy, and representation; research that cherishes its relationship with theory, creating concepts as it goes; research that is dialogical and collaborative; and research that is explicit and curious about the inquiry process itself.
Find out more »March 2019
Blurring Boundaries: Rethinking Gender and Care Augsburg Germany
The interdisciplinary Bavarian Research Association ForGenderCare invites authors to submit abstracts for the conference. Call for Abstracts by August 31 New employment patterns, pluralized family forms, changing gender roles, altered conceptions of maternity and paternity, changed family care networks and the professionalization of hitherto rather privately organized care practices make it necessary to rethink care and its social organization. For more information get the Pdf-Download: CfP: Blurring Boundaries: Rethinking Gender and Care See also the Conference website
Find out more »June 2019
Second Global Network Summit Toronto Call for papers
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 shifting globally with changing demographics, disability movements, and climate change driven environmental crises. Its mission is to address critical issues related to carework, such as how identities influence carework; how inequality structures carework; how caring work is recognized and compensated; how state policies influence the distribution of care;…
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