04/06/2021
Good Morning, Everyone! We want to provide some updates on the upcoming UW Ethics of Care Conference — "Relations of Care Across and After Worlds”. We hope that you will consider joining us (virtually) May 13 and 14, 2021.
This event grows from a 2 year Borghesi-Mellon Workshop through the Center for Humanities on Ethics of Care. We hope this conference holds an opportunity to think together in engaged ways about issues at the very heart of this moment. COVID-19, police violence, ever widening economic disparities, political polarization, unpaid care labor, sexual violence, challenges to wellness, environmental destruction, settler colonialism, and empire name only a few of the converging crises facing local communities, nation states, and transnational spaces.
1. Attached you will find the general conference poster. It contains links for conference registration (https://charge.wisc.edu/womens_studies/EthicsOfCare.aspx ), the conference website (https://careconference.squarespace.com) and our general “Ethics of Care” Workshop website (https://uwethicsofcare.gws.wisc.edu/about/). Please circulate this poster to people you think might be interested in attending.
2. You should register for the event as soon as possible through the following link (https://charge.wisc.edu/womens_studies/EthicsOfCare.aspx). Throughout the coming weeks, we will send you conference updates. These will include the conference program, Zoom links for the panels and Keynote Dialogues, as well as “enrichment” emails about Keynote Speakers’ recent work and interest areas.
3. There is no fee to attend this event. Accessibility requests can be made when you register.
4. This event is designed to take an interdisciplinary approach to care as an organizing concept across the humanities, arts, the social sciences, policy studies, STEM disciplines, and health sciences, with a particular emphasis on emerging practices toward just and livable futures. Over 130 participants will represent 35 US colleges and universities, as well as 13 international institutions of higher education. In addition, 5 featured “Keynote Dialogue Panels” will explore crucial issues related to care.
Keynote Dialogue participants include: Kim TallBear, Joan Tronto, Nancy Fraser, Jasmine Syedullah, Mia Mingus, Valerie Francisco-Menchavez, M Adams, JT Roane, Melissa K. Nelson, Elspeth Iralu, Jill Casid, Stuart Murray, Kay Ulandy Barrett, Ti Banks, and Ellen Samuels.
5. In the next month, we will be using several social media platforms to publicize the event. To find us on Instagram, follow . To keep up on Twitter, follow as well. Our page can be found at . We appreciate you staying updated and involved on our social media.
More to follow soon!
Warmly,
Chris, James, LiLi, Annie and Michael
