Featuring work emerging from the 2016-2017 Humanities Center/GEI Faculty Research Seminar.
Part I – Facets of Care: Self, Other, Cosmopolis
Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
How do we think about care and how do we practice care in today’s interconnected and conflicted world? How do our beliefs in the power of human agency to advance justice confront the limits of our modern institutions and practices of caring for ourselves and for others? Three participants in the Humanities Center 2016-17 Faculty Seminar, “Forms of Care: Self, Other, Cosmopolis,” share the fruits of their collaborative explorations of care. Their leading theme explores how care is practiced and how it has been (and can be) transformed in its psychological, religious, and ethical dimensions.
Mihaela Czobor-Lupp, Associate Professor of Political Science
William North, Professor of History
Ken Abrams, Associate Professor of Psychology
Watch a video of this presentation.
Part II – Care and the Politics of Memory
Wednesday, May 9, 2018
Is political memory an expression of care? Two participants in the Humanities Center 2016-17 Faculty Research Seminar, “Forms of Care: Self, Other, Cosmopolis,” discuss the politics of memory through the case study of the Algerian War of Liberation. They explore the power, politics, and moral implications of commemorations of war, as well as the role of narrative in shaping how we pay attention and remember difficult cultural and political events.
Sandra Rousseau, Assistant Professor of French
Maria Vendetti, Assistant Professor of French, St. Olaf College
Respondent: Dana Strand, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of French and the Humanities, Emerita