Contesting Care

Revaluing Care Network, Duke University and WCCEH, Exeter University

Two days of talks, films, workshop discussion and artist presentations responding to the global crisis of care.

<h2>Contesting Care: 30th June -1st July </h2><p>Few topics at present can be more pressing than care. Even before the current pandemic, a global care crisis had been identified by The International Labour Organization (ILO), which indicated that by 2030, the number of people needing care will reach 2.3 billion (Addati et al. 2018). Today, the majority of care practices are socially, culturally, economically and ecologically unsustainable, in large part because of a failure to ascribe sufficient value and recognition to the vast amounts of physical, emotional and intellectual labour required for the provision of care. This mounting crisis - its ecological and economic significance, and the widespread problems of precarity and hyper-exploitation - demands a fundamental reconsideration by researchers and policymakers. </p><p>Contesting Care is an online event that responds to this situation. It brings together interdisciplinary scholars from Duke University’s Revaluing Care Network (RCN), the University of Exeter’s Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health, and other interested academics and artists. It will host a varied and innovative range of interventions, from conventional presentation panels to films, artist talks and workshops, fostering dialogue between creative and critical engagements with care, and seeking to develop concepts and methodologies that can be taken forward to address the global crisis of care. The aim of the event is to identify new research questions and collaborations, while producing an initial range of outputs for those currently thinking about care in their research and practice. </p><h2>PROGRAMME</h2><h2><strong>DAY 1</strong></h2><h3>2-3 PM BST / 9-10 AM EST 	                                                     Care In Crisis 1</h3><p>Speakers: David Richards (Exeter); Peter Kussin (Duke); Felicity Thomas (Exeter);  LJ Brandli (Duke)</p><p>Chair: Des Fitzgerald (Exeter)</p><p>		Break</p><h3>3.30-4.30 PM BST / 10.30-11.30 AM EST                	Parallel Panels: </h3><h3>		Communities and Values of Care 1</h3><p>Speakers: Lorenza Ippolito (Brighton); Jocelyn Olcott (Duke); Joao Florencio (Exeter);  Dirk Philipsen (Duke); </p><p>Chair: LJ Brandli (Duke)</p><h3>		Ageing and Care</h3><p>Speakers: Iza Kavedzija (Exeter); Samia Akhter-Kahn (King’s College/Duke/RCGE); James Chappel (Duke); Anne Allison (Duke) </p><p>Chair: Liz Barry (Warwick)</p><p>                   Break</p><h3>5-6 PM BST / 12-1 PM EST	    Communities and Values of Care 2</h3><p>Speakers: Pedro Nicoli (RCGE); Ann Gallagher (Exeter); Kaitlyn Daly (Duke); Sarah Gainsforth (activist)</p><p>Chair: Martha Espinosa (Duke)</p><h3>6-7 PM BST / 1-2 PM EST	    Temporalities of Care</h3><p>Speakers: Michael Flexer (Exeter); Martin O’Brien (artist); Deborah Robinson (artist); Laura Salisbury (Exeter)</p><p>Chair: Jordan Osserman (Birkbeck)</p><h3><strong>DAY 2		</strong></h3><h3>2-3 PM BST / 9-10 AM EST 	Technologies of Care</h3><p>Speakers: Ernesto Schwartz Marin (Exeter); Maddelena Fragnito (artist/activist)</p><p>Chair: Tania Rispoli (Duke)</p><p>                Break</p><h3>3.15-4.15 PM BST / 10.15-11.15 AM EST   Environments of Care							</h3><p>Speakers: Judith Green (Exeter); Elis Jones (Exeter); Nicole Barnes (Duke) </p><p>Chair: Veronica Heney (Exeter)</p><p>		Break</p><h3>4.30-5.30 PM BST / 11.30-12.30 EST	Care in Crisis 2</h3><p>Speakers: Veronica Heney (Exeter); Anne Barlow (Exeter); Mauro Turrini (CSIC/RCGE); Leo Jamelli (artist)</p><p>Chair: Laura Salisbury (Exeter)</p><h3>5.30-7 PM BST / 12.30-2 PM EST		                            OPEN SPACE DISCUSSION</h3><p></p>

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