With Arron Derfel (Montreal Gazette), Lorraine McCrary (Wabash College, US), Sayendri Panchadhyayi (NLSIU, India), Camille Robert (UQAM), Penny Vera Sanso (Birkbeck, London), and Marie-Claude Thifault (University of Ottawa). The conversation is chaired by Magda Fahrni (UQAM).
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Aaron Derfel
Arron Derfel is the Montreal Gazette’s medical reporter, specializing in investigative and narrative journalism in a more than 30-year career that has taken him across North America. In 2021 he, won a Canadian Association of Journalists Award for his reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic in Quebec.
Mr. Derfel’s 2020 investigation into the horrific living conditions at the Résidence Herron nursing home earned the Grand Prize of the Prix Judith-Jasmin — Quebec’s highest journalism accolade.
Lorraine McCrary, “‘An Oasis in a Desert of Disease’: Care in Crisis at Hull House”
Lorraine McCrary is a political theorist based at Wabash College (US) whose research brings together disability studies and the feminist ethic of care.
Sayendri Panchadhyayi, “Unpacking care: poverty and thanatopolitics of the state in the COVID hours”
Sayendri Panchadhyayi is a doctorate in Sociology and currently a visiting faculty at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU, India), Bangalore, India teaching a course on ‘Ageing, Lifecourse and Death Studies’ and a research fellow at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta. She has worked extensively on old age care, caregiving and Covid-19 in India.
Camille Robert, « Gouverner en ignorant les femmes : regards sur le travail au foyer, dans les garderies et dans les établissements de soins durant la pandémie au Québec »
Camille Robert est candidate au doctorat en histoire à l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Son projet de thèse porte sur les conflits liés au travail de reproduction sociale dans le contexte du tournant néolibéral de l’État québécois.
Penny Vera Sanso, “Theorising care as social glue and primary economic driver”.
Penny Vera Sanso is Senior Lecturer in Development and Social Anthropology at Birkbeck, University of London. She has been researching gender, age and poverty in India for over twenty-five years. With the award-winning director Deepa Dhanra, she produced two documentaries: “The Forgotten Generation” and “We’re Still Working.”
Marie Claude Thifault, « En temps de pandémie… aider, soigner et collecter un matrimoine immatériel» / “During the pandemic… helping, caring, and collecting an intangible heritage”
Marie-Claude Thifault est une infirmière psychiatrique de formation, professeure titulaire à l’École des sciences infirmières de l’Université d’Ottawa, directrice de l’Unité de recherche sur l’histoire du nursing et titulaire de la Chaire de recherche sur la francophonie canadienne en santé.. Sa recherche porte sur l’histoire des institutions psychiatriques canadiennes, l’histoire des infirmières, des femmes et des communautés religieuses.
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