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BOOKING IS NOW OPEN!
THE PERFORMING CARE SYMPOSIUM

Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, December 15th 2016
The event costs: £12, to book your place please click the eventbrite link below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-performing-care-symposium-tickets-29433695977

Dear Friends and Colleagues

Registration has just opened for the Performing Care Symposium

Co-convenors: Dr Amanda Stuart Fisher (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Professor James Thompson (University of Manchester)

Confirmed speakers include: 
Key Note: Maurice Hamington, Professor of Philosophy and Executive Director of University Studies, Portland State University, USA 
Professor Jen Harvie, Queen Mary University London
Professor Lois Weaver, Queen Mary University London
Dr Anna Harpin, Warwick University
Dr Sara Houston, Roehampton University
Dr Tom Cornford, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Dr Caoimhe McAvinchey, Queen Mary University London
Dr Mark Whelton, Queen Mary University London
Dr Alex Mermikides and Sally Richardson Kingston University
Dr Maggie Inchley, Queen Mary University London and Sylvan Baker, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
Jonathan Petherbridge, London Bubble.

FOR THE FULL LIST OF CONFIRMED SPEAKERS SEE THE FOLLOWING LINK:

http://www.cssd.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Perfoming%20Care%202016%20-%20Plan%20of%20Day%2016-11-23.pdf

About the symposium:

It is thirty years since Nel Noddings asked ‘why care about caring? (Caring: A Feminine Approach to Ethics 1986). Noddings’s book signalled a shift in moral philosophy away from conceptualisations of an autonomous human subject and towards concepts of relationality and dependence. Hers was not a lone voice, other theorists such as Carol Gilligan (1982), Eva Kittay (1991), Joan Tronto (1993), Virginia Held (1993) began to lay out philosophical frameworks for a terrain of care ethics which would go on to influence a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such philosophy, political theory, education, nursing and social work.

Recently, the concept of care has re-emerged within public consciousness as questions have been raised about our capacity to be caring professionals, live in a caring community, or contribute to a more caring society. These concerns become all the more critical in an era marked by the commodification of care, economic austerity and mass migration. Perhaps as a consequence, there has been a renewed interest in care ethics with scholars and practitioners examining how care should be positioned in relation to issues from social justice to national security, as well as examining what might constitute embodied or affective care and how care becomes present in every day contexts.

However, the concept of care has yet to be fully investigated within performance-based scholarship. This symposium signals the start of a new project that explores how concepts of care can be developed, troubled and enhanced through an engagement with performance-based work and, simultaneously, how performance can be re-thought and re-imagined through a dialogue with care ethics.

For more information, please contact: [log in to unmask] or Amanda Stuart Fisher ([log in to unmask])


RESEARCH@CENTRAL

Dr Amanda Stuart Fisher
Reader Contemporary Theatres and Performance
The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama 
University of London 
Eton Avenue 
London 
NW3 3HY 

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