4th International Care Ethics Research Consortium Conference
CERC 2026
Full Conference Program
Reconfiguring Relations:
Political, Ecological, and Cultural
June 25 – 27, 2026
SK Future Hall, Korea University, Seoul
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Day One — In-Person
Thursday, June 25, 2026 · SK Future Hall
Registration
13:00 – 14:00 · 5F Lobby
Track A · Room 518
Reimagining Care through Agency and Governance
Pragya Dev
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
"Politicising the 'Normal' and 'Nothing': A Philosophical Reading of Indian Ways of Caring"
Sophia Pavlos
George Mason University, USA
"Caring Enough Not to Care: Reproductive Refusal and the Politics of Non-Motherhood"
Nian Liu
Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, China
"The Implications of Caring Democracy for China's National Governance"
Track B · Room 521
Care Ethics in Clinical and Digital Frontiers
Janet Delgado, Belén Liedo, María José Guerra-Palmero, Txetxu Ausín Díez, Misae Ito, Akiko Kamezaki, Yasuko Sumida, Saeko Kutsunugi
Yamaguchi University, Japan (Delgado) · University of La Laguna, Spain (Liedo, Guerra-Palmero) · CSIC, Spain (Ausín Díez) · Kumamoto University, Japan (Ito, Kamezaki, Sumida, Kutsunugi)
"Fostering Moral Competence and Moral Resilience in the Age of AI: An Ethics of Care Approach"
Aaron Wightman, Georgina Campelia
University of Washington, USA
"From Contextualism to Relationality in Clinical Ethics"
Helene Kohlen, Snežana Stanković, Julia Bantouvaki
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
"Ecosystems of Knowledge and the Creation of Caring Communities by the Example of Women Affected by FGM/C in Germany"
Track C · Room 522
Knowing, Resisting, and Cultivating Caring Worlds
Tammy Hiu Tung Yow
Doshisha University, Japan
"Care as Knowing: Addressing Epistemic Injustice through Listening to the Experiences of Japanese Childcare Workers"
Monaye Johnson
Brown University, USA
"The Omnipotent Caretaker: Care, Non-Care, and Anti-Blackness"
Émilie Gervais
Laval University, Canada
"Cultivating Caring Worlds: Researching with Care in Shared Gardens"
Coffee Break
15:15 – 15:30
Track A · Room 518
Reimagining Organizations, AI, and Global Ethics
Nathan Boucher
Duke University, USA
"Cultivating Solidarity Through Care — Reframing Organizational Change Across Sectors"
Georgina Campelia, Holly Hoa Vo, Aaron Wightman
University of Washington, USA
"AI and the Reshaping of Caring Relationships in Clinical Settings"
Jon Rueda, Cristian Moyano-Fernández, Irene Gómez-Franco, María Victoria Martínez-López, Janet Delgado, Ana Toledo-Chávarri, Alice Rangel-Teixeira, Angel Puyol
Spanish National Research Council (Rueda) · University of Granada, Spain (Moyano-Fernández, Gómez-Franco, Martínez-López) · Yamaguchi University, Japan (Delgado) · Canary Islands Health Service, Spain (Toledo-Chávarri) · FIOCRUZ, Brazil (Rangel-Teixeira) · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (Puyol)
"Why Is Principlism Not Enough? Ethics of Care and Cosmopolitanism for One Digital Health"
Track B · Room 521
Care Ethics and the Future of AI Landscapes
Janet Johansson, Victoria Paulsson
Linköping University, Sweden
"Redefining AI Ethics: Understanding and Resolving Moral Dilemmas in AI Development and Application with a Care-Ethics Approach"
Eunah Lee
St. Joseph's University, USA
"AI Motherhood: Reimagining Care through Sci-fi Stories"
Ouyang Xuan
Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
"'Caring Is at the Heart of Teaching': Care Ethics in L2 AI-Mediated Writing Instruction"
Track C · Room 522
Relational Rights and Daily Practices of Care
Li-Fang Liang
National Dong-Hwa University, Taiwan
"Doing Care, Doing the Everyday: Care Practices and Ethical Engagements at an Indigenous Dementia Care Center"
Dangeni, Marie-Pierre Moreau
Anglia Ruskin University, UK
"Potentials and Challenges of Balancing Education and Care: An Investigation of Intergenerational Care in the UK Higher Education Context"
Lisa Ewenson
University of Technology Sydney, Australia
"Older Women's Housing Precarity, Climate Change and Disaster: Reform through a Relational Rights-Based Approach"
Welcome Reception
17:00 – 18:30 · Room 512–513
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Day Two — In-Person
Friday, June 26, 2026 · SK Future Hall
Opening Ceremony
09:00 – 09:30 · Room 512–513
Special Session · Room 518
Care Ethics in Cultural Contexts
Sarah Munawar
Columbia College, Canada
"Planting a Seed at the World's End: Embodying Muslim Cosmologies of Care"
Priya Sharma
T.A. Pai Management Institute, India
"A Caring Workplace: Navigating Cultural Expectations of Care in an Indian Workplace"
Ning Zhao
Shanghai University, China
"Rethinking the Normative Ground of Care Ethics: A Confucian Ti-Yong Approach"
Coffee Break
10:45 – 11:00
Track A · Room 518
Building Ecologies, Climate Mobility, Justice
Elke Krasny
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria
"Elemental Care: On Building Ecologies"
Sophie Harbour
University of Cambridge, UK
"Routes and Roots: Climate Volatility and Practices of Care in Transhumance Communities"
Jaeim Park
Sogang University, South Korea
"Relational Agency from Care Ethics to Climate Action"
Track B · Room 521
Entangled in Webs of Death and Waste: Care Ethics and Re/building Relations in the Midst of Necropolitics and Environmental Degradation
Chair: Maurice Hamington
(Portland State University, USA)
Iris Parra Jounou
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
"Death and Dying in Warzones as a Feminist Public Health Priority"
Brunella Casalini
University of Florence, Italy
"Wasteocene as Geopoetics: Lethal and Vital Entanglements in Undercurrents by Rita Wong"
Sophie Bourgault
University of Ottawa, Canada
"Social Isolation and Urban Necropolitics: Care Ethics Reflections"
Naïma Hamrouni
UQTR, Canada
"Relational Ontologies, Care and Decolonial Feminist Care Ethics"
Track C · Room 522
Care Beyond Boundaries: Migration, Artivism, and Non-Normative Relationalities
Jennifer Shaw, Alicia Massie, Anita Minh
Thompson Rivers University, Canada (Shaw) · Simon Fraser University, Canada (Massie) · OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, USA (Minh)
"Reimagining Redaction: Care Ethics, Erasure, and Migrant Justice in the Canadian Care Economy"
Janet Johansson, Victoria Paulsson
Linköping University, Sweden
"Exploring Resources for Socially Sustainable Change through Relational Care Ethics: On Migrant Women's Artivism and the Role of Funding Organizations in Sweden"
Aditi Maddali
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
"Careful Families: Exploring the Ethics of Non-Normative Relationalities in Socio-Material Realities of Care"
Lunch Break
12:15 – 13:30 · On your own
Track A · Room 518
Ontological Foundations of Care and Interdependence
Wonju Seo
Seoul National University, South Korea
"On Vulnerability and Common Sense: Understanding Dependency as a Basic Human Condition"
Kalin Pak
University of Antwerp, Belgium
"The Ontology of Care in Eco-Death Practices: Rethinking Dignity Beyond Autonomy"
Melissa Cosgrove
Independent Scholar, USA
"Pando and the Law of Relation"
Track B · Room 521
Care Ethics across Decolonial Art, Post-War Justice, and Domestic Spaces
Minhee Kim
Paris 8 University, France
"Decolonial Curating with Care Ethics — Critical Insights from the 60th Venice Art Biennale"
Amy Chin
Vassar College, USA
"Jus Post Bellum Care"
Andrea Sosa Fontaine, Kristen Mimms Scavnicky
Kent State University, USA
"Safe Keeping // Care Through Domesticity and Memory"
Track C · Room 522
Policy, Infrastructure, and the Governance of Care
Sungkyu Lee
Korea University, South Korea
"From Private Burden to Shared Responsibility: Assistive Wheelchairs as Care Infrastructure in Korea"
Monique Lanoix
Saint Paul University, Canada
"Caregiving, Opacity and Playful Relations"
Aisling Tuite, Antoinette Jordan
South East Technological University, Ireland
"Does Policy Care? Tracing the Lines from Policy to Practice in Public Employment Services"
Marie-Pierre Moreau, Dangeni
Anglia Ruskin University, UK
"Discourses of Student Carers in UK Policy Texts"
Coffee Break
14:45 – 15:00
Track A · Room 518
From Care Leadership to Wage Justice and Caring Beyond Algorithms
Shinhee Jeong
Care Citizenship Research Institute, South Korea
"Care Leadership and Moral Boundaries: A Korean Case of Relational Reconfiguration"
Justine Modica
Cornell University, USA
"Reimagining the Wages of Care: Worthy Wages and the Vision of a Fairly Paid Child Care Workforce, 1984–2006"
Jac Nobiss, Chan Jeong Park, Erika Fundelius
University of British Columbia, Canada
"Teaching, Healing, and Caring Beyond the Algorithm"
Track B · Room 521
Governance against Care — Japan
Chair: Kari Tsushima
(Saitama University, Japan)
Kari Tsushima
Saitama University, Japan
"Praise, Punishment, and Governance against Care: Contemporary Japanese Politics of Care"
Kyoko Mori
Doshisha University, Japan
"The Invisible Yome's Dilemma in the Role of Funeral Practices: From the Perspective of Care Ethics"
Rie Motohashi
Tsuda University, Japan
"The Transformation of the 'Joint' Norm for Parenting Couples: Reflections on the Joint Custody Law in Japan"
Track C · Room 522
Reshaping Public and Ecological Relations through Art, Masculinities, and Mending
Ritsuko Saito, Natsumi Sakamoto
Waseda University · Artist, Japan
"Dismantling Motherhood: Rethinking Public Space and Caring Bodies in Contemporary Japan Through Collective Artistic Practices"
Riikka Prattes
University of Bergen, Norway
"Caring Masculinities and Climate Activism in the Nordics: (New) Relations of Care Beyond Dominance"
Sam Bennett
Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
"Threads of Care: Exploring Aging and Intergenerational Solidarity Through Mending"
Coffee Break
16:15 – 16:30
Special Session · Room 518
Democratic Care in Action — Resistance, Solidarity, and Attention
Commentator: Joan Tronto
(University of Minnesota, USA)
Yayo Okano
Doshisha University, Japan
"Reconfiguring Relations between the Political and the Cultural: Through the Lens of Caring Democracy"
Hee-Kang Kim
Korea University, South Korea
"Enacting Caring Democracy: Resistance and Solidarity in South Korea"
Tito Ambyo
RMIT University, Australia
"Taman as Mode of Attention: Warga Jaga Warga and the Cultivation of Caring Democracy"
Conference Dinner
18:30 – 20:30
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Day Three — In-Person
Saturday, June 27, 2026 · SK Future Hall
Track A · Room 518
Between Risks & Neglect — Transforming School Life
Chair: Itzcoatl Jacinto Vergara
(National University Rosario Castellanos, Mexico)
Itzcoatl Jacinto Vergara
National University Rosario Castellanos, Mexico
"School Companionship in Disaster Contexts: The Case of Students from CCH Oriente in Response to the Floods in Chalco, State of Mexico"
Hugo Garciamarin Hernandez
UNAM, Mexico
"Preconditions and Conditions for Care at the CCH: Data on Infrastructure and Services"
Estela Roselló Soberón
UNAM, Mexico
"School as a Space to Deal with Loneliness through Resonance"
Track B · Room 521
Sensory Aesthetics and Cultural Organizations of Care
Carina Miles
University of Exeter, UK
"Sensory Experiences of Care: The Aesthetics of Objects and Care in Applied Theatre and Performance Practice"
Alessandro Carrara
University of Modena and Reggio, Italy
"The Culture of Care and the Ethical Meaning of Cultural Organizations"
Bora Yeon, Hyuna Moon
Seoul National University, South Korea
"Constructing Care across Paid and Unpaid Boundaries: Volunteer-Based Community Practices in Korea"
Track C · Room 522
Theories of Care: Pedagogical, Philosophical, and Spatial Perspectives
Cécile Gagnon
University of Montreal, Canada
"Reconfiguring Pedagogical Relations: Toward a Pedagogy of Care"
Ayako Yasui
Kansai University, Japan
"The Ethics and Place of Care: Toward Constructing a Spatial Theory of Care"
Sung-hyun Yang
Sogang University, South Korea
"Aristotle and the 'Care of the Soul'"
Coffee Break
10:15 – 10:30
Roundtable · Room 518
Ecological Care — Staying with the Trouble and Rethinking Our Earthly Relations
Discussants: Maurice Hamington (Portland State University, USA),
Jaeim Park (Queen's University Belfast, UK)
Tula Brannelly
Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
"Staying with the Trouble: Opportunities for Repair and Resistance in the Colony"
Closing Ceremony
11:50 – 12:30 · Room 512–513
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Online Sessions — Via Zoom
June 25–27, 2026 · KST (Seoul)
Jun 25: 07:00–08:15 PDT Pacific 10:00–11:15 EDT Eastern 16:00–17:15 CEST Central Europe
Track V-A
Theoretical Roots and the Relational Flourishing of Care
Sarah Clark Miller
Penn State University, USA
"The Comprehensive Commitment to Care: On Noddings' Metaethic of Care"
Mercer Gary
Drexel University, USA
"Reassessing the Psychoanalytic Roots of Care Ethics"
Fulvio Maina
University of Oslo, Norway
"The Ethics of Desire Care. Relational Flourishing and Careful Interventions"
Track V-B
Creative Practice, Relational Care, and Global Ecology
Martin Robb
The Open University, UK
"From Care for the Person to Care for the World: Gender, Ecology and Co-existence"
Bence Örkény
KU Leuven, Belgium
"Reconfiguring Forgiveness: Care, Relationality, and the Ethics of Repair"
Katy Fulfer, Kyra Woodend
University of Waterloo, Canada
"'We're caretakers. We're gardeners': Solarpunk as an Embodiment of Care Theory"
Track V-C
The Aesthetics of Care and the Preservation of Artistic Legacy
Ana Ferriols Montañana
Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
"Caring Exhibitions: Integrating Care Theory in Museum Practices and Curatorship in Southern Europe"
Kanchana Mahadevan
University of Mumbai, India
"An Aesthetics and Ethos of Care: Reflections from Sheba Chhachhi's Contemporary Art Practice"
Debbi Min
University of Melbourne, Australia
"Understanding the Materials and Techniques of I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih (1966–2006)"
Jun 25: 08:30–09:45 PDT Pacific 11:30–12:45 EDT Eastern 17:30–18:45 CEST Central Europe
Track V-A
Negotiating Care in Times of Global Insecurity and Constitutional Change
Fiona Robinson
Carleton University, Canada
"Arming with Care?: Global Insecurity, Militarization and the Ethics of Care"
Eva Katharina Boser
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
"Intergenerational Caring Democracy? The Social Connection Model of Responsibility between Generations"
Mariana Brocca
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
"Toward a Latin American Constitutionalism of Care: Lessons from the Inter-American Advisory Opinion OC-31/25"
Track V-B
Reconfiguring Care from Beginning to End
Chair: Brent Matheny
(Penn State University, USA)
Brent Matheny
Penn State University, USA
"The Expressive-Collaborative Model, Forgiveness, and Trust"
Marie-Anne Perreault
Canada
"The Social Connection Model and the Responsibility to Care"
Judith Chavarria
Penn State University, USA
"Sartre and Care Ethics"
Track V-C
Re-envisioning Epistemologies of Presence in Mothering Beyond Classical Care Ethics
Eleanor Pinto
IITB-Monash Research Academy, India
"Mothering Presence: Reimagining Care and Survival from Marginal Postcolonial Indian Kitchens"
Namrata Patel
IIT Bombay, India
"Presence and Mothering in Bodhicaryāvatāra: Interpreting the Bodhisattva Ideal in Mahāyāna Buddhism through an Ethics of Care"
Amrita Banerjee
IIT Bombay, India
"A Care-Oriented Realism for Thinking Presence in Mothering through Virtual Reality: (Un)Bodied but Embedded Maternal Ontologies"
Jun 26: 07:00–08:15 PDT Pacific 10:00–11:15 EDT Eastern 16:00–17:15 CEST Central Europe
Track V-A
Obstetric Violence, Crip Time, and Disability Justice
Veronica Mitchell
University of the Western Cape, South Africa
"Hos/ti/pita/lity in Medical Education: Propositions for Renewed Caring Relationships"
Sarah Costantini
University of Guelph, Canada
"Care, Coercion, and Harm: Theorizing the Carceral Layers of Eating Disorder Treatment"
Àger Pérez Casanovas
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"Reclaiming Care Time: Waiting Lists, Interdependency, and Disability Justice in NHS Eating Disorder Services"
Track V-B
Confucian Dialectics, Care Robots, and Popular Imagination
Miaomiao Du
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
"Reconfiguring Political Relations: The Confucian 'Ren-Li' Dialectic as a Resource for Institutional Care"
Yang Chen
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China
"From 'Substitute Care' to 'Auxiliary Care': How Should Care Robots Respond to the Dignity Needs of Vulnerable Groups?"
Anson Sinn
Independent Scholar, Hong Kong
"Care Ethics, Ecolaw and Aesthetics of Sovereignty — Doraemon the Anime Cartoon: Moai Statues on Easter Island"
Track V-C
Enacting Care: From Rural Kinship to Material Design and Moral Need
Ilona Grabmaier
University of Vienna, Austria
"Caring Uncles: Uncovering the Invisible Labor of Male Carers in Rural Ukraine"
Alexandra Tinning
Northumbria University, UK
"Realising Care: Reassembling Realities Through Design"
Ira Chadha-Sridhar
University of Cambridge, UK
"Caring and the Problem of Need"
Jun 26: 08:30–09:45 PDT Pacific 11:30–12:45 EDT Eastern 17:30–18:45 CEST Central Europe
Track V-A
Research Relations, Atmospheres of Trust, and the Politics of Affection
Judith Reynolds
Rhodes University, South Africa
"Reconfiguring Research Relations: Research Participation and Care Processes"
Katrina Kish
St. Catherine University, USA
"How to Build Atmospheres of Trust Despite Difference and Under Conditions of Oppression"
Jawon Cho
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"The Politics of Affection and the Partiality of Care: An Ethnographic Reflection from a Romanian Public Shelter"
Track V-B
From Indigenous Roots to Posthumanist Theory and the Ethic of Accompaniment
Andrea Doucet, Eva Jewell
Brock University, Canada · Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada
"Portraits of Care from a Canadian First Nations Context"
Evan Wicklund
Carleton University, Canada
"Care Ethics and the Dimensions of Difference: A Posthumanist Analysis of Disabled Embodiment, Vulnerability, and Interdependency"
Paras Arora
Stanford University, USA
"Looking After, Looking Around: Siblingship, Neurodiversity, & Care in Urban India"