International Care Forum Lecture Series – 2023-24
The Care Forum is an international cooperative group dedicated to sponsoring lectures, discussions, and other types of events on care theory. Sponsored by the Elizabeth D. Rockwell Center on Ethics and Leadership, it sponsors the Care Forum Zoom Lecture series and offers a clearinghouse for advertising conferences, calls for papers and articles, and recent publications on care theory.
March 1, 2024, 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Central Time, Houston-Chicago): Jason Danely, Oxford Brookes University, “Unsettled Futures: Aging, Care and Carcerality in Japan.” Zoom registration link: https://uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApf-Cqrz8sE9z_nxOrG84XvmSBhBRQzdl1
April 5, 2024, 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Central Time, Houston-Chicago): Mercer Gary, The Hastings Center, “Moral Luck, Normative Ambivalence, and the Vagaries of Care.” Zoom registration link: https://uh-edu-cougarnet.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkd-GhrTwqGdYakPkkGw_UZXLOlWSnUVoV
Past Forums - 2024
January 26, 2024, 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Central Time, Houston-Chicago): Sarah Clark Miller, Penn State University, “Understanding Sexual Violence through Care Theory.”
Past Forums - 2022-23
November 17, 2023, 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Central Time, Houston-Chicago): Monique Lanoix, Saint Paul University, “Care Labor: Between Two Worlds.”
October 20, 2023, 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Central Time, Houston-Chicago): Amy Mullin, University of Toronto, “Dementia, Respect and Care.”
Friday, April 28, 2023, 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Central Time, Houston-Chicago): Helena Hirata, University of Paris VIII.
Zoom replay
Friday, March 10, 2023, 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Central Time, Houston-Chicago): Lina-Maria Murillo, University of Iowa.
Zoom replay
Friday, December 9, 2022, 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Central Time, Houston-Chicago): Talia Schaffer, Communities of Care (Princeton University Press, ). The “Introduction” to Communities of Care can be found on Princeton University Press website.
Friday, November 4, 2022, 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Central Time, Houston-Chicago): Robert Gottlieb, Occidental College, Care-Centered Politics (MIT Press, 2022).
Friday, September 23, 2022, 12:00 – 1:30 pm (CDT, Houston-Chicago): Maggie Fitzgerald, University of Saskatchewan, Care and the Pluriverse: Rethinking Global Ethics (Bristol University Press, July 2022). Commentary by Maurice Hamington, Portland State University.
Thursday, October 6, 2022, 12:00 – 1:30 pm (Central Time, Houston-Chicago): Hil Malatino, Penn State, Trans Care (University of Minnesota Press, 2020).
All of Trans Care is available open access at: https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/trans-care. If you don’t have time to read the whole book, you might focus on the chapter “Theorizing Trans Care” for the talk.