Introduction
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Part of the Symposium
Why Care?
To ask Why care? is to critically explore the massive mobilization of care in modern life. It is to interrogate the biopolitical ambivalences of the modern institutionalization of care as well as the prevailing economies and economics of care regarding what counts as care, the value of care, and its differential allocation. The question Why care? also provides occasion to attend to alternative or ignored forms of care – and to reflect on how these might be made explicit by means of new forms of critique and intersectional analysis based on diverse alternative notions of community and interdependence. Rather than idealizing certain kinds of care, the symposium makes time for care as an affective and communal practice in our more than human worlds in which relations of inclusion and exclusion, empowerment and debilitation, autonomy and dependence, tenderness and terrorization are not only constituted but also contested.
The symposium seeks to better understand prevailing regimes of care and explore under-represented or unacknowledged practices of care in the past and present.19:30 Keynote
Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck, University of London)
On Time, Care and Not Moving On9:45 Morning Coffee
10:00-10:15 Introductions
10:15-11:45 Panel I – Waiting Times
Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck, University of London) and Laura Salisbury (University of Exeter): Depressing Time: Waiting, Melancholia, and the Psychoanalytic Practice of Care
Deborah Robinson (University of Plymouth, artist collaborator)
Raluca Soreanu (Birkbeck, University of London): Ferenczi’s Times: The Tangent, the Segment, and the Meandering Line
Martin Moore (University of Exeter): What did it mean to wait in the Early UK National Health Service?
11:45-12:15 Coffee Break
12:15-13:00 Panel II – Curating
Taraneh Fazeli (Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha): An Interview with Taraneh Fazeli
Magdalena Jadwiga Härtelova (Gallery of Academy of Fine Arts in Prague): Care ~ Curating
13:00-14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-15:45 Panel III – Careful Reading
John Hamilton (Harvard University): Homo Curans
Kasia Mika (KITLV, Leiden): Rasanblaj: A Future Reassembled
Laura Salisbury (University of Exeter): Slow Modernism and Careful Reading
Benjamin Lewis Robinson (University of Vienna): Frivole: Why Care About Coetzee’s Slow Man?
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-16:45 Intervention – Anton Kats
16:45-17:00 Coffee Break
17:00-18:30 Panel IV – Decolonial Healing
Daniela Agostinho (University of Copenhagen): Archival Encounters: Ethics of Care and Postcolonial Digital Archives
Kateřina Kolářová (Charles University, Prague): Post-socialism, Affective Politics of Abandonment and Racialised Chronicity
Vasuki Shanmuganathan (York University, Canada): Aging Colonizers, Cultural Care, and Race
18:45-19:30 Performance – The Battlefield Nurse by Jeremy Wade
Venue
ICI Berlin(Click for further documentation)
With
Taraneh FazeliJohn Hamilton
Anton Kats
Jeremy Wade
Organized by
Birkan TaşBenjamin Lewis Robinson