PhD workshop by Joan Tronto – Care in Neoliberal, Nordic welfare states
Roskilde University Universitetsvej 1 Building 25.1, Roskilde, DenmarkThe Nordic welfare states are usually assigned the status of gender equal states, where full time paid work can be combined with motherhood (and daughterhood). This has been based upon large parts of care as a responsibility of the state and professionalization of care for pre-school children, sick and elderly. However, decades of neo-liberalism in … Continue reading PhD workshop by Joan Tronto – Care in Neoliberal, Nordic welfare states
Enactivism and care ethics
Westerberg Campus Barbarastraße 22c, building No. 93, room 93/E31, Osnabrück, GermanyEarly January an interesting presentation will be organised in Osnabrück, Germany: Enactivism and care ethics - Foregrounding the relational domain, by Petr Urban (Prag, Czech) See also an interview with Petr Urban here
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 … Continue reading European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry Edinburgh 2019
Blurring Boundaries: Rethinking Gender and Care Augsburg Germany
Universität Augsburg Universitätsstr. 2, Augsburg, Bayern, GermanyBlurring Boundaries – Rethinking Gender and Care is the international closing conference of the interdisciplinary Bavarian Research Association ForGenderCare „Gender and Care. Dynamics of care in the context of institutions, practices, technology, and media in Bavaria" Please download the conference timetable and program here Please register by emailing to conference@forgendercare.de no later than January 20th, … Continue reading Blurring Boundaries: Rethinking Gender and Care Augsburg Germany
Conference on social inclusion
University of Humanistic Studies Kromme Nieuwegracht 29, Utrecht, Utrecht, NetherlandsHow to envision social inclusion with regard to people with profound intellectual and/or multiple disabilities? Social inclusion has been a core policy goal for the emancipation of people with disabilities since the early sixties. With the Dutch ratification of the UN Convention in 2016 it gained further prominence on the political agenda. However, it is … Continue reading Conference on social inclusion
Second Global Network Summit Toronto Call for papers
University of Toronto Hart House, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaThe 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, … Continue reading Second Global Network Summit Toronto Call for papers