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Theories and practices of Care" seminar

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The Montpellier "Théories et pratiques du care" center is organizing two days of seminars in November:- Thursday November 5 on the theme: "Les formes de l'empathie: arts et langage" - Thursday November 19: "Care, émotions et apprentissages" (more information to come on this day in another e-mail soon)____________________

face-to-face illustrationForms of empathy: arts and languages

Study day with the support of the LLACS-RéSO and LIRDEF teams

Thursday, November 5, 2020

Salle des colloques 2 Saint-Charles, Université Paul-Valéry

Theories and Practices of Care study center

When we contemplate a person's face, a landscape of emotions opens up: we spontaneously enter into resonance with others... Empathy is this resonance that takes place on an emotional, but also cognitive level: both psychic and biological, this phenomenon that connects us to each other has played a major role in the history of evolution. In his book L'âge de l'empathie (The Age of Empathy),Frans de Waal points out that many animals survive not by eliminating each other, but by cooperating and sharing their food.

In the Anthropocene era, the COVID-19 pandemic has clearly demonstrated our profound interdependence:we can thus realize that the survival of biodiversity on our planet depends on the degree of empathy between individuals of the same species, but also between different species: in times of danger, we need to forget what divides us, because in the midst of catastrophes, we are capable of "building a paradise in a hell" (Rebecca Solnit).

As part of the Theoriesand Practices of Care seminar, organized by the LLACS and LIRDEF teams, we invite students, teachers, researchers and the general public to reflect on the role of empathy in the arts, literature and the process of translation between languages.

To what extent does creation - artistic, literary, linguistic - enable us to understand the possibility ofanother narrative, individual and collective, in which caring plays an essential role for all of us?

At the heart of living ecosystems, empathy is the constitutive fiber of this new collective fabric based on a profound vision of interdependence and the realization of active solidarity.

Program

9h. Opening by Fabrice Quero, Director of the LLACS-RéSO Research Unit

9h15. Presentation by Angela Biancofiore (LLACS), Clément Barniaudy (LIRDEF)

9h30. Jean-Michel Ganteau (EMMA),Care, Vulnerability, Literature: poetics and ethics of narrative

10h15. Sahar Souissi (LLACS),Forms of empathy through sacred narratives in the Christian and Islamic worlds

Break

11h. Roberta Serra (LLACS),The experience of catastrophe: memory and representation of conflict in Italian art of the second post-war period.

Discussion

Lunch break

14h30. Paola Artero (EMMA),Translation and empathy: translating nature, repairing the world

15h. Juan Adroher (LLACS),Attention training and empathy in interpreting students: feedback.

15h30. Marie-Christine Munoz-Levi (LLACS),"A woeful pageant have we here beheld?A woeful pageant have we here beheld": sketching an aesthetic of compassion in Shakespeare's theater.

Discussion and conclusion of the day

Further information and contact

Link to streaming 48 hours before the event on:https://tepcare.hypotheses.org/

Free admission information:tepcare@gmail.com