Fifth Nursing Philosophy Reading Group Series

The Center for Nursing Philosophy (CNP) is proud to announce its fifth Nursing Philosophy Reading Group series.

This reading group aims to continue the dialogue fostered by a recent thought-provoking colloquium on speculative ethics in healthcare. Speculative ethics draws on feminist, critical posthumanist, and Indigenous knowledges to pay attention to care, relationality, and pluralism. The object of this reading group is to examine these literatures in terms of how they challenge received notions of ethics by, for, and in nursing and other disciplines.

This reading group series will be led by Jessica Dillard-Wright, assistant professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Jamie Smith (research associate, Charité Universitätsmedizin, Germany). It will be co-facilitated by Miriam Bender, associate professor at University of California Irvine and director of the CNP.

Series details

Session 1, January 20, 2024, 10-11:30 a.m. PST

  • Smith, J., Klumbyte, G., & Britton, R. L. (2023). From ‘if‐then’ to ‘what if?’ Rethinking healthcare algorithmics with posthuman speculative ethics. Nursing Philosophy, 24(3), e12447.
  • Nordmann, A. (2020). If and then: A critique of speculative nanoethics. In The Ethics of Nanotechnology, Geoengineering, and Clean Energy (pp. 115-130). Routledge.
  • de La Bellacasa, M. P. (2011). Matters of care in technoscience: Assembling neglected things. Social studies of science, 41(1), 85-106.

Session 2, February 17, 2024, 10-11:30 a.m. PST

  • Braidotti, R. (2019). Affirmative ethics and generative life. Deleuze and Guattari Studies, 13(4), 463-481.
  • Benjamin, R. (2016). Informed refusal: Toward a justice-based bioethics. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 41(6), 967-990.
  • Tuck, E., Stepetin, H., Beaulne-Stuebing, R., & Billows, J. (2023). Visiting as an Indigenous feminist practice. Gender and Education, 35(2), 144-155.

Session 3, March 16, 2024, 10-11:30 a.m. PST

  • Guattari, F. (2005). The three ecologies. Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • White, A. (1983). The dismal sacred word: Academic language and the social reproduction of seriousness. Journal of Literature Teaching Politics, 2(6).
  • Sontag, S. (2018). Notes on camp. Penguin UK.

Registration

We ask registrants to commit to all three sessions. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting, including a zoom link.

Registration

Register here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting, including a zoom link.

Questions?

Contact Jessica Dillard-Wright or Miriam Bender.