Nicholas Kristof, NYT, invites university students to apply for his 2020 win-a-trip contest. He has been holding these contests since 2006, and takes the winner along with him on a reporting trip to cover global poverty, health and social justice issues. Read more.
Local organizers: Sophie Bourgault (University of Ottawa) and Fiona Robinson (Carleton University) Care ethics first emerged as an attempt to ‘decenter’ ethics; feminist philosophers like Carol Gilligan argued that women’s moral experiences were not reflected in the dominant, masculinist approaches to ethics, which were centered on a rational, disembodied, atomistic moral subject, able to self-legislate …
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http://www.enrio.eu/congress2020/ This first European congress on research integrity practices addresses current challenges that open science and data protection laws pose for research integrity in Europe.
Together with professor Joan Tronto, on November 2nd, graduate students, prospective students, faculty, and others attended the Medical Humanities Symposium to discuss “The Hidden World of Care”. At a moment of political discord in our country, it is no secret that we face a care deficit. To adequately care for our children, older people, and …
Workshop Data and Stories in Digital Health Care. Mixed Methods for Medical Humanities The workshop “Data and Stories in Digital Healthcare” examines the mutual entanglements of the humanities with medicine and data science. It focuses on the variety of forms in which information about health and illness travel between different stakeholders, such as patients and …
Interview with Elizabeth Newnham, lecturer in Midwifery at Griffith University, Australia. 1. Where are you working at this moment? Since January this year, I have been working as a lecturer in midwifery at Griffith University. I currently teach in the Masters in Primary Maternity Care – a postgraduate programme that implements the ‘Framework for Quality …
Care Ethics and Poetry is the first book length work to address the relationship between poetry and feminist care ethics. The authors argue that morality, and more specifically, moral progress, is a product of inquiry, imagination, and confronting new experiences. Engaging poetry, therefore, can contribute to the habits necessary for a robust moral life—specifically, caring. …
Elena Cologni is an artist whose research practice has had a sustained in(ter)disciplinary approach. After a BA in Fine Art from Accademia di Belle Arti Brera in Milan, and a MA in Sculpture from Bretton Hall College, Leeds University, Cologni was awarded a scholarship for a PhD in Fine Art and Philosophy from University of …
Toward an Asymmetrical Ethics: Power, Relations, and the Diversity of Subjectivities International conference organised November 13 to 15 by the Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge at the School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University. Intersubjective relations In Western societies and philosophical traditions, the egalitarian relation between rational subjects has since long been understood as an …
