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VIRTUAL EVENT: Lessons from COVID-19
11 November 2020, 7:00 pm–8:30 pm
In this webinar, Professor Sandra Laugier argues that the pandemic has changed lives throughout the world, teaching us the political relevance of care.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Alison Brady
The very grammar of care now imposed on us shows our mutual dependence. All are vulnerable, even if not in the same way or to the same degree.
The lesson of COVID reverses values accepted for decades, even though long denounced by the ethics of care: the most useful professions are the least well paid and lowest in status.
Professor Laugier proposes that we live in a huge ambiguity specific to care work, which is still underestimated and underpaid, even as its importance emerges in the eyes of all.
Links
- Tweet with #philofed
- Philosophy at the Institute of Education
- Department of Education, Practice and Society
Image: Luke Jones via Unsplash
About the Speaker
Sandra Laugier
Professor of Philosophy at University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Sandra is also a Senior Fellow at the Institut Universitaire de France and Co-Director of the Institute of the Legal and Philosophical Sciences of the Sorbonne, Université Paris 1/CNRS
She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein, Austin, Cavell), moral perfectionism (Cavell, Thoreau, Emerson), popular culture (film and TV series), gender studies and the ethics of care. She is Principal investigator of the European Research Council project DEMOSERIES.
Her recent books include, ‘Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy’ (Chicago University Press, 2013), ‘Formes de vie’ (ed. avec Estelle Ferrarese, 2018), ‘Nos vies en séries’ (Flammarion, 2019) and ‘Politics of the Ordinary: Care, Ethics, and Forms of Life’ (Peeters, 2020).