3/5- “What is the Intellectual History of Care?”
The Ph.D. Program in History at the CUNY Graduate Center Presents…
The John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture
Sarah Knott on “What is the Intellectual History of Care?”
Wednesday, March 5th, 2025, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
The Segal Theatre
In the wake of the pandemic, but even before, we have become accustomed to hearing “care” as an everyday piece of vocabulary, indeed a word that traverses public debate and private discussion. Care economy. Care crisis. This lecture explores an intellectual history of “care” as a feminist concept. In the late twentieth century and across a variety of domains, both expected and unexpected, feminist thinkers pressed care and social reproduction into use. Care emerged as what theorist Sara Ahmed might describe as a “sweaty concept”: building theory from a description of something not being accommodated in the world, deliberately worldly, a response to a situation. That intellectual history encourages us to articulate care’s intellectual use as concept and practice today.
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