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Dear all, A workshop on 'Vulnerability and the Politics of Care' will be taking place on January 21st-22nd at Oxford Brookes University. Please find the outline and provisional programme below. If you are interested in attending, please email Doerthe Rosenow at [log in to unmask] for further details. The concept of vulnerability has gained increasing interest in recent years, provoking discussion across disciplines, from philosophy to anthropology, politics to medicine. Each of these perspectives has, in their own way, sought to address the ways exposure to risk, precarity, violence and trauma affect our capacity for care, resilience, mutuality, and agency. The relationship between vulnerability and care is rarely straightforward, whether in the context of social welfare, environmental conservation, displaced communities or personal mourning. At times, technologies of care produce zones of exclusion, or vulnerable groups might become perpetrators of violent actions rather than passive subjection. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to explore the potential for cross-fertilisation between the various conceptualisations of vulnerability and care that have emerged in different academic disciplines and social contexts, asking how vulnerability and care may help us to challenge prevailing notions of power, violence, well-being, infrastructure and security. *Thursday 21st January* 13.00: Arrival and coffee 13.30-14.00: Opening address by Doerthe Rosenow 14.00-15.30: Panel 1 1. Tina Managhan (International Relations, Oxford Brookes University) *(Moving towards) A Phenomenological Approach to the Terrorized, Traumatized Western Liberal Subject* 2. Tiffany Page (Centre for Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London) *Unspectacular Events: Troubling the Tempo of Vulnerability * 3. Respondent: tbc 15.30-16.00: Coffee 16.00-17.30: Panel 2 1. Emily Cousens (Philosophy and Politics, Oxford Brookes University) *Corporeal Vulnerability and Feminist Ethics: the Rationale and the Limits* 2. Pamela Sue Anderson (Philosophy of Religion, Oxford University) *Title tbc* 3. Respondent: tbc *Friday 22nd January* 09.00-10.30: Panel 3 1. Beverley Clack (Philosophy and Religion, Oxford Brookes University) *Vulnerability, Mortality and Living Well * 2. Elizabeth Mills (Institute of Development Studies, University of Brighton) *The Biopolitics of Vulnerability: Embodiment and Precarious Life for Women Living with HIV in Brazil and South Africa* 3. Respondent: tbc 10.30-11.00: Coffee 11.00-12.30: Panel 4 1. Jason Danely (Anthropology, Oxford Brookes University) *Care and the Politics of Vulnerability in Japanese Eldercare* 2. Irene Capelli (Social Anthropology, University of Torino, Italy) *Becoming Legitimately Vulnerable: the Moralisation of Health Care in Morocco* 3. Respondent: tbc 12.30-13.30: Lunch 13.30-15.00 Panel 5 1. Jackie Leach Scully (Social Ethics and Bioethics, Newcastle University) *The Vulnerability of a New Normal* 2. Respondent: tbc 3. General closing discussion -- Dr Victoria Browne Lecturer in Politics Department of Social Sciences Oxford Brookes University Gipsy Lane Oxford OX3 0BP