OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Care is an everyday word, belonging to all of us. In 2025, ‘care’ is an object of contemporary debates, naming the work that sustains life, provided by kin or the market or the state or mutual aid. Sometimes care is associated with particular groups: childcare, social care, trans care. How did we get here, and how far back should we look? This lecture explores the emergence of ‘care’ as a liberatory idea in the 1980s, seeking to change patriarchy and capitalism, and the challenges of making sense of “care” in the longer past and the present day. ‘Care’ is a worthy object for an inclusive feminist women’s history and for our times.
