Care Ethics Otherwise: A Conference
June 9–10, 2023
Penn State University Park
Marriott Foundation Building (formerly the Oak Building)
REGISTER HERE: https://rockethics.psu.edu/care-ethics-otherwise-a-conference/
Friday, June 9, 2023
Conference Program
1:00 PM–1:15 PM
Welcome
Clarence Lang, Susan Welch Dean of the College of the Liberal Arts and Professor of African American Studies
1:15 PM–2:30 PM
Mercer Gary, “Self-Care and Self-Responsibilization: Case Studies in Telemedicine”
Mark Ortiz, “Caring Across Generations, Geographies, and Species: Transnational Youth Climate Organizing and Planetary Care Ethics”
2:30 PM–2:45 PM
Break
2:45 PM–4:00 PM
Panel 2
Abram J. Lewis and Myrl Beam, “Witnessing the Present: Caring about Care in Trans Oral History”
Ariel Dela Cruz, “‘Did You Take Your Arnica?’: Transmasculine and Tomboy Performances of Care”
Amy Marvin, “The Art of Trans Care: Agency and Conflict in Celeste”
Moderator: Paige Chapman
4:00 PM–4:30 PM
Break
4:30 PM–6:00 PM
Keynote
Sami Schalk, Jess Waggoner, and Jina Kim
“QueerCrip Kinship and Care in Pandemic Times”
(Available on Zoom)
6:00 PM
Dinner on your own
Saturday, June 10, 2023
9:00 AM–10:00 AM
Breakfast
10:00 AM–11:15 AM
Roundtable
“Care Ethics Otherwise” special issue of Essays in Philosophy with authors
Joshua Barnett, Zena Sharman, Ashley Lamarre, and Katharine Wolfe
(Available on Zoom)
11:15 AM–12:30 PM
Lunch
12:30 PM– 2:00 PM
Keynote
Martin Manalansan
“The Moral Proxemics of Care: Reflections on Pandemics Past and Present”
(Available on Zoom)
2:00 PM–2:15 PM
Break
2:15 PM– 3:30 PM
Panel 3
Vrinda Dalmiya, “Differently Relational and Variously (ir)Responsible: Care Ethics in a Settler Colonial State”
Jules Wong, “Caring Desires: Affect and Reasons”
Kelly Gawel, “There is No Natural Care! Transformative Justice and the Violence of Normative Care”
Moderator: Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse
3:30 PM–4:00 PM
Break
4:00 PM–5:15 PM
Panel 4
Margaret McLaren, “Is Abolishing the Family an Ethics of Care?”
Rhiannon Lindgren, “Reproductive Struggle as Care: Opposition, Abolition, and Feminist Politics”
Siobhan Pokorney, “Radical Ethics of Care: Supporting, Not Reporting, Black Disabled Mothers and Families in Need”
Moderator: Kris McLain
5:15 PM–5:30 PM
Break
5:30 PM–6:45 PM
Panel 5
Sohini Chatterjee, “Care, Migrant Neuroqueer Temporality, and Subversion of Access Essentialism as Equity”
B. Ethan Coston, “Ontologically Intimate and Mad as Hell: Ruminations on Neuroqueer Care”
Shaun Respess, “Resentment as Responsiveness: Psychiatric Care and the Problem of Ethical Loneliness”
Moderator: Amy Baehr