schedule

Thursday 
23 January 2025


Hotel check-in is possible from 14:00 - 23:00.



15:30 - 16:30 | Walk-in, Refreshments & Registration lounge KonneKt & atrium


16:30 - 16.40 | Welcome by Joke van Saane, Rector of the University of Humanistic Studies steyl


16:40 - 17.00 | “Life Lines: On Labyrinths of Care”, Opening address by Louis van den Hengel steyl


17:00 - 17:45 | “Living Off Landscape: Re-connecting with Vitality in Care”, Plenary by Merel Visse steyl  


17:45 - 18:00 | Short Break


18:00 - 18:30 | “Callisthenics: Stories of Support, Aversion, and Love”, Performance by Paloma Bouhana, Henny Dörr & Philippine Hoegen lounge KonneKt


18:30 - 18:45 | Short Break


18:45 - 21:00 | Dinner and Free Time restaurant KonneKt


21:00 - 22:00 | “Gravity and Care”, Plenary by Christine Leroy steyl


Friday 
24 January 2025



08:30 - 09:00 | Reception & Registration lounge KonneKt & atrium


09:00 - 10:00 | “Care Aesthetics”, Plenary by James Thompson steyl


10:00 - 10:30 | Break 
| “Reclaiming Maternal Lineage: The ‘Parricida’ Performance as an Act of Care and Resistance”, Performance by Zoya Sardashti ground floor restrooms, 1 participant, registration required


10:30 - 12:00 | Parallel Sessions 1

Lines & Panels
Line #1
Conceptualizing & Creating

Panel 1 Re-Imagining Care through Artistic, Creative-Led Practice Research: A Multifaceted Panel
mozambique

Line #2
Understanding & Changing

Panel 1 Care Beyond Repair?
tanzania


Line #3
Resisting & Liberating
Panel 1 Practicing Care in Art, Activism, and Academia
angola

Line #4
Embedding & Governing
Panel 1
The Challenges of Care in a Blues and Jazz Archive
ghana

Line #5
Per/forming & Becoming
Panel 1 Moving With Care: “Switchy” Methodologies for Transformative Queer Street Performance
botswana

Line #6
Futuring & Worlding
Panel 1 Kintsugi: The Art of Unfolding the Unknown
congo


10:30 - 11:00 | “Reclaiming Maternal Lineage”, Performance by Zoya Sardashti ground floor restrooms, 1 participant, registration required


11:15 - 11:45 | “Reclaiming Maternal Lineage”, Performance by Zoya Sardashti ground floor restrooms, 1 participant, registration required


12:00 - 13:15 | Lunch restaurant KonneKt


12:45 - 13:15 | “Reclaiming Maternal Lineage”, Performance by Zoya Sardashti ground floor restrooms, 1 participant, registration required


13:15 - 14:45 | Parallel Sessions 2
Lines & Panels

Line #1
Conceptualizing & Creating
Panel 2 Caring and the Art of Perceiving
mozambique


Line #2
Understanding & Changing
Panel 2 Caring in Action, Connection, and Community
tanzania

Line #3
Resisting & Liberating
Panel 2 Udderly Queer: An Artistic Exploration of Trans*Species Care Ethics
angola

Line #4
Embedding & Governing
Panel 2 Exploring Care as Pedagogical and Organizational Principle in Arts Education
ghana

Line #5
Per/forming & Becoming
Panel 2 The Weight of Care: Artistic Knowing and Un/doing
botswana & lounge KonneKt

Line #6
Futuring & Worlding
Panel 2 Roots of Reciprocity: Cultivating Care and Restoration
congo


13:15 - 14:45 | “Will You Carry Me?!”, One-On-One Performance by Nina Goedegebure komfortzone, 6 participants, registration required


14:45 - 15:15 | Break 
| “Reclaiming Maternal Lineage”, Performance by Zoya Sardashti ground floor restrooms, 1 participant, registration required


15:15 - 16:45 | Parallel Sessions 3
Lines & Panels

Line #1
Conceptualizing & Creating
Panel 3 Towards an Ethics and Aesthetics of Repair
mozambique


Line #2
Understanding & Changing
Panel 3 Re-imagining Death, Dying, Loss, and Grief
tanzania

Line #3
Resisting & Liberating
Panel 3 Endurers
angola

Line #4
Embedding & Governing
Panel 3 Designing for Care: Interdependency, Relational Design, and Affirmative Ethics
ghana

Line #5
Per/forming & Becoming
Panel 3 Imagination Work: Transforming Care through Poetry, Drawing, and Dance
congo

Line #6
Futuring & Worlding
Panel 3 Ecologies of Care: Collaborative Practices in Human and More-Than-Human Environments
botswana & stairwell


16:30 – 17:00 | “Reclaiming Maternal Lineage”, Performance by Zoya Sardashti ground floor restrooms, 1 participant, registration required


16:45 - 17:00 | Short Break 


17:00 - 18:30 | Per/forming Care: New Visions and Imaginings
Artworks

17:00 - 17:40
My Mother’s Material
Bax & Bax (live performance)
steyl


17:45 - 18:30
253 ways to care
Merel Visse (video installation & meet the artist)
steyl

17:45 - 18:30
Meaningful Artistic Research
(exhibition curated by Marieke Folkers)
steyl

17:45 - 18:15
Out of Love, Out of Necessity
Tjitske Sluis (photography exhibition & meet the artist)
steyl

17:45 - 18:15
The Beauty and Power of the Uniform in Theatre and Medicine
Nora Korfker & Lotte van den Berg (live performance)
congo


17:45 - 18:30
Callisthenics: Stories of Support, Aversion, and Love
Paloma Bouhana, Henny Dörr & Philippine Hoegen (live performance)
lounge KonneKt

18:00 - 18:30
The Loneliness of Illness Truus Teunissen (sculpture group & meet the artist)
hallway

18:00 - 18: 30
Reclaiming Maternal Lineage: The ‘Parricida’ Performance as an Act of Care and Resistance,
Zoya Sardashti (discussion with participants & meet the artist)
botswana

18:00 - 18: 30
Will You Carry Me?!, Nina Goedegebure (meet the artist)
komfortzone




18:30 - 20:00 | Dinner restaurant Konnek


20:30 - 22:00 | Film Screening: “Human Forever”, an independent film by Teun Toebes & Jonathan de Jong steyl


20:30 – 22:00 | “Will You Carry Me?!”, One-On-One Performance by Nina Goedegebure komfortzone, 6 participants, registration required

Saturday
25 January 2025



08:30 - 08:30 | Reception & Registration lounge KonneKt & atrium


08:30 - 10:00 | Parallel Sessions 4

Lines & Panels
Line #1
Conceptualizing & Creating

Panel 4 An Ethico-Aesthetics of Care: Rethinking Care Theory
mozambique

Line #2
Understanding & Changing

Panel 4 Beyond Reparation and Critique: Relational Encounters with Disability and Care
tanzania


Line #3
Resisting & Liberating
Panel 4 Embodied Ethics and Care Aesthetics: Feminist, Trans*, and Queer Interventions
angola

Line #4
Embedding & Governing
Panel 4
Caring Infrastructures
ghana

Line #5
Per/forming & Becoming
Panel 4 Worldmaking with Eco-Social Public Art
botswana

Line #6
Futuring & Worlding
Panel 4 Care for the Other-Than-Human: Earthly, Oceanic, and Cellular Engagements
congo


10:00 - 10:15 | Short Break


10:15 - 11:45 | Parallel Sessions 5
Lines & Panels


Line #1
Conceptualizing & Creating

Panel 5 Caring Relationalities and the Arts of Attention
mozambique

Line #2
Understanding & Changing

Panel 5 CineCare Deliberation
botswana


Line #3
Resisting & Liberating
Panel 5 Deviant Aesthetics and Gestures of Care: Reading Contemporary Visual Art, Film, and Performance
angola

Line #4
Embedding & Governing
Panel 5
Arts in Care: Creative Practices at the Crossroads of Culture and Health
congo

Line #6
Futuring & Worlding
Panel 5 Care-full Critique of Current Clothing Repair Landscapes
tanzania


10:15 - 11:45 | “Will You Carry Me?!”, One-On-One Performance by Nina Goedegebure komfortzone, 6 participants, registration required


11:45 - 13:00 | Lunch restaurant KonneKt


13:00 - 14:00 | “Care Aesthetics and Its Relation to Care Ethics”, Plenary Roundtable by Tom Maassen (moderator: Tineke Abma) steyl


14:00 - 14:15 | Short Break


14:15 - 15:45 | Parallel Sessions 6
Lines & Panels


Line #1
Conceptualizing & Creating

Panel 6 Ethics, Aesthetics, and Design in Dementia Care
mozambique

Line #2
Understanding & Changing

Panel 6 The CARE Aesthetics Research Exploration Project
tanzania


Line #3
Resisting & Liberating
Panel 6 Caring Democracies?
ghana

Line #4
Embedding & Governing
Panel 6
Endurers
angola

Line #5
Per/forming & Becoming
Panel 6 Art in Caring Spaces: Creative Transformation through Narrative, Performance, and Visual Design
congo


Line #6
Futuring & Worlding
Panel 6 MAYBE | Co-creative Collaborations with Palliative Cancer Patients: A Transdisciplinary Tale from the Artist's Perspective
botswana


14:15 - 15:45 | “Will You Carry Me?!”, One-On-One Performance by Nina Goedegebure komfortzone, 6 participants, registration required


15:45 - 16:00 | Closing steyl




Location
23-25 January 2025
Kontakt der Kontinenten, Amersfoortsestraat 20
3769 AS Soesterberg

Online
30-31 January 2025 more info 

OrganizerCare Ethics Research Consortium
Contact info 
Louis van den Hengel
Images homepage: Merel Visse, Christine Leroy

design website: Johanne de Heus and Marielle Schuurman