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
Blurring 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
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, … Continue reading Second Global Network Summit Toronto Call for papers
The objective of the course is to foster exchanges on foundational, clinical-ethical and organisational-ethical approaches to dementia care. During the course, national and international experts will give presentations on various ethical topics in the domain of dementia care. Time will be provided for intensive discussion and interaction. The number of persons with dementia will rise … Continue reading SUMMER COURSE: ‘ETHICS IN DEMENTIA CARE’
The 8th Edition of the Intensive Course on Foundational Approaches, Contemporary and Educational Issues in the Field of Nursing Ethics will be held December 2019 in Leuven Belgium. Since the beginning of the 1980s, nursing ethics has developed to such a degree that it is now considered a fixture within applied ethics. The specific positions … Continue reading Nursing Ethics Intensive Course
The Sustainable Care Research Programme, that organises this conference, is a multi-disciplinary ESRC-funded programme (2017-2021) exploring how care arrangements, currently ‘in crisis’ in parts of the UK, can be made sustainable and deliver wellbeing outcomes. It aims to support policy and practice actors and scholars to conceptualise sustainability in care as an issue of rights, … Continue reading CARE: challenges and solutions for a sustainable future