Epistemologies of Care
Rethinking Global Political Economy Conference at the Amsterdam Law School, 4-6 December, 2019
Programme
4 December 2019
14.30-15.00 Registration
15.00-15.15 Opening Remarks
Marija Bartl, Amsterdam Law School
Jocelyn Olcott, History Department, Duke University
15.15-17.oo Keynote Lecture: Accounting for Care
Nancy Folbre, Faculty of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
17.00-18.00 Drinks
5 December 2019
10.00-12.00 Caring Governance - Governance of Care I
Respondent: Jocelyn Olcott
Jennifer Nedelsky, University of Toronto Law School, “What we learn from care and why everyone should do it”
Pascale Vielle, Faculty of Law, UC Louvain, “Care and Social Protection through an Ecofeminist Lens: Some Conceptual Issues”
Marija Bartl, Amsterdam Law School and Kinanya Pijl, European University Institute
“Democratising Markets: Care and Non-extractive Economic Practices”
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-15.00 Caring Governance - Governance of Care II
Respondent: Marija Bartl
Elena Gerasimova, International Labour Organisation
[2019 ILO report on care labor]
Jocelyn Olcott, History Department, Duke University
“Encountering DAWN: Global South Networks and the Civil Society
Challenge to Neoliberalism in the United Nations”
Encarnación Gutierrez Rodríguez, Institute for Sociology, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen
“Caring Common(s), Social Reproduction and Coloniality: Migration Policies and the Caring Economy”
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break Lunch
15.30-17.30 Measuring Care
Respondent: Nancy Folbre
Ara Wilson, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University
[standards and metrics]
Anju Paul, Social Sciences, Yale NUS College
[Global Care Index]
Richard Itaman, Department of International Development, King’s College London
[computation of care work in SNA]
6 December 2019
10.00-12.00 Migrant Labor and the Caring Economy
Respondent: Mahua Sarkar, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University
Samita Sen, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
“Single in the City: Women, Migration and Domestic Work in India”
Mira Younes, University Paris 13
“Diverting reproductive labor, reinventing and politicizing care”
Riikka Prattes, Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University
“...then I almost always have a guilty conscience.” Visceral Knowing in the International Division of Reproductive Labor.
12.00-14.00 Working Lunch and Wrap Up
Nancy Folbre, Faculty of Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Mahua Sarkar, Department of Sociology, Binghamton University
Jocelyn Olcott, History Department, Duke University
Marija Bartl, Amsterdam Law School