The number of persons with dementia will rise considerably in the years to come. The increasing prevalence of dementia and the treatment and care for people with dementia present a myriad of important ethical questions and responsibilities. What do we think of the quality of life of people with dementia and of their subsequent end … Continue reading Summercourse Ethics in Dementia Care
Call for papers. Abstracts by March 30 Why care? is an attempt to critically explore the massive mobilization of care in modern life. It interrogates the biopolitical ambivalences of the modern institutionalization of care as well as the prevailing economies and economics of care regarding what counts as care, the value of care, and its … Continue reading Why Care? Symposium Berlin July 2018
2018 Societas Ethica Annual conference Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium Feminist Ethics and the Question of Gender Deadline Abstracts expired 1 May 2018 See the conference webpage
Organised by the Care Ethics Research Consortium. Theme: Care Ethics and Precarity. Key note speaker: Eva Feder Kittay. Exploring Precarity: a rich and widely contested term that can describe a variety of oppressive circumstances. The CERC conference will be hosted by Portland State University, Oregon United States. Registration will be available soon. Until the first … Continue reading Conference Care Ethics and Precarity
Joris Luyendijk speaks with the American writer and journalist Barbara Ehrenreich on her life and work. A continuous theme in Ehrenreich's work is the deceit (or myth) of the American dream. Recurring, urgent themes in her work are the labour market, health care, poverty and the position of women.. During an in-depth conversation Luyendijk and … Continue reading Joris Luyendijk meets Barbara Ehrenreich
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: … Continue reading Care as essential human condition