CETE-P Work-in-Progress Workshop with Maurice Hamington

8 APRIL 2025, 9:30am - 5pm

Institute of Philosophy CAS, Jilská 1, CTS Meeting Room, Prague 1

If you are interested in participating, please let us know via email at cetep@flu.cas.cz.

Abstract:

The aim of this workshop is to share and discuss the work-in-progress in care theory (care ethics, political theory of care and related approaches) by a diverse group of researchers from across the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The workshop will feature a special guest Maurice Hamington, a prominent American care ethicist, who will be a Visiting Scholar at CETE-P / Institute of Philosophy CAS at the beginning of April 2025. The event is open to the public and entry is free (including coffee breaks). The onsite lunch will be provided to speakers and special guests only.

Workshop schedule:

09.30 - 09.45
Welcome and Introduction

09.45 - 10.15
Maurice Hamington (Portland State University): Centering Care in the Modern Social Compact

10.15 - 10.30
Coffee/Tea Break

10.30 - 12.00
Panel 1: More-than-human Caring

Laura Candiotto (University of Pardubice): Loving Is Caring
 
Lisa Hall (University of Pardubice): Coming Alive to the World: Cultivating More-than-human Communities in Dialogue  with Enactive Ethics and Feminist (Care) Theory
             
Julita Skotarska (Charles University Prague / CETE-P): On Nonmimetic Caring

Petr Gibas (Masaryk University Brno): Care for Life: From the Garden to the City

12.00 - 13.00
Lunch Break / Onsite Lunch for Speakers

13.00 - 14.30
Panel 2: Ecofeminist, Epistemic, Crip and Digital

Klaudia Kováčová (University of Košice): The Legacy of British Moralists in Feminist Thought: A Study of Wollstonecraft and Ecofeminism

Tanuj Raut (University of Pardubice): Epistemic Care Obligations and the Individuation of Norms

Darja Dočekalová (Palacký University Olomouc): Crip Hospitality: Intersecting Crip and Feminist Care Ethics

John Dorsch (CETE-P / Institute of Philosophy CAS): Why Care Practices Should Prioritize Living Beings over AI: Against AI Welfare

14.30 - 15.00
Coffee/Tea Break

15.00 - 16.15
Panel 3: Democratic Care and Institutions

Adriana Jesenková (University of Košice): How to Care Democratically in Fragmentized Society?

Iveta Bayerová (Charles University Prague): Implementing Equality Policies as a Tool for Creating a Caring University

Michaela Tóthová (University of Košice): The Philosophy of Jane Addams and Her Contribution to Pragmatic Philosophy
and Ethics of Care

16.15 - 16.30
Coffee/Tea Break

16.30 - 17.00
Petr Urban (CETE-P / Institute of Philosophy CAS): Varieties of Care Theory in the CEE Region & Closing Discussion

The event is organized by Julita Skotarska and Petr Urban (urban@flu.cas.cz).

Free entry.