CUAG Lunchtime Lecture: Imagining a Global Ethic of Care: Towards a New Humanitarianism

Each semester, CUAG showcases a Carleton faculty member whose academic interests complement a current exhibition, and invites them to give a talk on their research.

In Patricia Reed: The One and the Many, Reed’s works examine the place of individuals in a world divided into nations. In the face of unprecedented global challenges, we might re-imagine alternative models of belonging and systems of exchange, founded upon what we have in common, rather than what divides us. For this Lunchtime Lecture, Fiona Robinson (Department of Political Science) will build a picture of a global feminist ethic of care. In particular, she will focus on the ethics of care as a moral framework for addressing the challenges of humanitarianism in a manner that foregrounds human needs while not depoliticizing or taking for granted the category of ‘human.’

Bring your lunch, the gallery will provide coffee and tea, and we’ll all learn something new!

Fiona Robinson is Professor of Political Science specializing in International Relations and Political Theory. She holds am MPhil (1992) and PhD (1995) from the University of Cambridge, an MA in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (1991). She is the author of The Ethics of Care: A Feminist Approach to Human Security (Temple University Press, 2011) and Globalizing Care: Ethics, Feminist Theory and International Relations (Westview Press, 1999).

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