Seminar: "Theories and Practices of Care"
The “Theories and Practices of Care” Center in Montpellier is organizing two-day seminars in November:– Thursday, November 5, on the theme: “Forms of Empathy: Arts and Language”– Thursday, November 19: “Care, Emotions, and Learning” (more detailed information about this event will be provided in a future email)____________________
Forms of Empathy: Arts and Languages
Workshop supported by the LLACS-RéSO and LIRDEF teams
Thursday, November 5, 2020
Seminar Room 2, Saint-Charles, Paul-Valéry University
Center for the Study of Care Theories and Practices
When we look at a person’s face, a landscape of emotions unfolds before us: we spontaneously connect with others… Empathy isthis connection thatexists on both an emotional and cognitive level: both psychological and biological, this phenomenon that binds us together has played a major role in the history of evolution. In hisbook *The Age of Empathy*,Frans de Waal points out that many animals survive not by eliminating one another, but by cooperating and sharing their food.
In the Anthropocene era, the COVID-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated ourprofound interdependence:we can thus realize that the survival of biodiversity on our planet depends on the degree of empathy not only among individuals of the same species, but also between different species: in times of danger, we must set aside what divides us because, in the midst of disasters, we are capable of “building a paradise in hell” (Rebecca Solnit).
As part ofthe seminar “Theories and Practices of Care,” organized by the LLACS and LIRDEF teams, we invite students, faculty, researchers, and the general public to reflect on the role of empathy in the arts, literature, and the process of translation between languages and discourses.
To what extent does creativity—whether artistic, literary, or linguistic—enable us to envision thepossibility of an alternative narrative, both individual and collective, in which care plays an essential role for all of us?
At the heart of living ecosystems, empathy is the fundamental building block of this new collective fabric, rooted in a profound understanding of interdependence and the realization of active solidarity.
Program
9:00 a.m. Opening remarks by Fabrice Quero, Director of the LLACS-RéSO Research Unit
9:15 a.m. Presentation by Angela Biancofiore (LLACS) and Clément Barniaudy (LIRDEF)
9:30 a.m. Jean-Michel Ganteau (EMMA),Care, Vulnerability, Literature: The Poetics and Ethics of Narrative
10:15 a.m. Sahar Souissi (LLACS),Forms of Empathy in Sacred Narratives in the Christian and Islamic Worlds
Pause
11:00 a.m. Roberta Serra (LLACS),The Experience of Catastrophe: Memory and Representation of Conflict in Post-World War II Italian Art
Discussion
Lunch break
2:30 p.m. Paola Artero (EMMA),Translation and Empathy: Translating Nature, Repairing the World
3:00 p.m. Juan Adroher (LLACS),Training in Mindfulness and Empathy for Interpretation Students: A Review of the Experience
3:30 p.m. Marie-Christine Munoz-Levi (LLACS),“A woeful pageant have we here beheld”: An outline of an aesthetic of compassion in Shakespeare’s plays
Discussion and conclusion of the day
Additional information and contact details
Link to the live stream 48 hours before the event on the website:https://tepcare.hypotheses.org/
Free admission For more information, visit:tepcare@gmail.com