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?
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An Unexpected Party
The 20th H e n r i N o u w e n Lecture: Care as essential human condition by Stephan Posner, December 1st, 2018, Utrecht (see the flyer), was preceded by an introduction by Barbara Zwaan. Continue reading An Unexpected Party
Aiming at contact. Relational caring and the everyday interaction as effective principles in clinical forensic care
Petra Schaftenaar, member of the research network Critical Ethics of Care, presents a summary of the results of her PhD-thesis Aiming at contact. Relational caring and the everyday interaction as effective principles in clinical forensic care (2018) in the following article. Continue reading Aiming at contact. Relational caring and the everyday interaction as effective principles in clinical forensic care
Beyond Neoliberalism’s final terms: ‘Only one can live’ – Jessica Benjamin in Trump times
Review of Jessica Benjamin: Beyond Doer and Done To – Recognition Theory, Intersubjectivity and the Third, Routledge, London, New York, 2018. Continue reading Beyond Neoliberalism’s final terms: ‘Only one can live’ – Jessica Benjamin in Trump times
Petr Urban: Enactivism and Care Ethics
In early January, the Institute of Cognitive Science – University of Osnabrück organised an interesting presentation by Petr Urban (Prague, Czech Academy of Sciences) on Enactivism and care ethics: Foregrounding the relational domain. Continue reading Petr Urban: Enactivism and Care Ethics
In search of quality
This review of The discovery of quality. Theory and practice of relational caring, the latest book of professor Andries Baart, appeared in the December issue of Optentia News Letter (North West University South Africa). Continue reading In search of quality