On 28th November OxTalks will move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events' (full details are available on the Staff Gateway).
There will be an OxTalks freeze beginning on Friday 14th November. This means you will need to publish any of your known events to OxTalks by then as there will be no facility to publish or edit events in that fortnight. During the freeze, all events will be migrated to the new Oxford Events site. It will still be possible to view events on OxTalks during this time.
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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.
