Call for papers for Who Cares?: The Past and Present for Caring
Who cares?: The Past and Present of Caring conference is a collaboration between the Women, Gender and Sexuality, and the Health, Medicine and Society research clusters.
Call for Papers
Deadline for Abstracts: deadline extended to 20th January 2017
At all stages of life, people give and receive care. Rapidly changing demographics are affecting the dynamics of care, and now more than ever, gender-based expectations of caregiving in history are being called into question. A growing emphasis on personal well-being denotes a generation that is complicating traditional notions of care.
The way care has been understood and delivered has developed across time. Approaches to care have historically been and continue to be changed and challenged by spatial, temporal, and socio-political boundaries. This conference seeks to shed light on care within communities and across borders, exploring changes in its perception throughout history and how it intersects with different ages, cultures, and identities.
Our keynote speaker will be Professor Holly Furneaux, Cardiff University, author of Military Men of Feeling: Masculinity, Emotion and Tactility in the Crimean War (OUP, 2016).
The conference will also include a half-day workshop exploring issues associated with care in academic institutions. Through a discussion of parenthood, experiences of supporting family members, and mental health, this workshop will provide a space to explore how researchers at all stages of their academic careers care for themselves and for others. This session aims to highlight difficulties currently experienced within higher education, and identify workable ways the academe can help to ensure personal well-being, and further support staff and students in their varied roles as carers.
Submissions are now invited for 20-minute papers on subjects which may include but are not limited to:
- Varieties of medical care
- Gender and caregiving
- Self-care and mental health
- Care in the military
- Care and the family
- Care and the life cycle
- End of life care
- Care and the non-human
- Care and marginalised communities
- The economies of care
- The politics of care
- Critical care
We particularly welcome proposals from postgraduate and early career researchers.
Submission guidelines
Abstracts must be no longer than 250 words for 20-minute papers.
Please send abstracts to hisccon@leeds.ac.uk no later than 20th January 2017. Please ensure abstracts contain your name and institutional affiliation (if any).
Any general enquiries may be sent to hisccon@leeds.ac.uk
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