The focus for this year’s symposium will be “Care,” broadly construed. The topic is obviously urgent. In the context of compounding health and environmental emergencies, elder and childcare crises, the erosion of bodily and familial autonomy, and the continued gutting of a social safety net, care and interventions escorted by notions of same are ever more pressing. We understand care in this duality: as both a coercive paternalistic tool and as profoundly generative. Meanwhile, public debate is often inchoate. The study of care can build on a diverse array of disciplines and fields: sociology, feminist theory, law, economics, geography, history, anthropology, rhetoric, political science, and ecology, as well as fiction, informatics, black studies, public health, human rights, media studies, journalism, international affairs, education, and policy studies, to name only the most obvious.
This year's workshop group is co-convened by:
Sarah Knott, Sally M. Reahard Professor, History, College of Arts and Sciences
Hannah Zeavin, Assistant Professor, History, University of California, Berkeley
Two external fellows are joining us this year during the April symposium.
Jules Gill-Peterson, Associate Professor, History, Johns Hopkins University
Jeff Nagy, DISCO Network, Digital Studies Institute, University of Michigan
