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In this workshop we are going to critically look into the dominant understanding of care not just within the medical institutions, but also other institutions of care and how this understanding affects interpersonal relationships that shapes the reality of people with disability and chronic illness.
Here, we are also going to dive into deeper complexities of different care givers and care infrastructures inquiring how the lack of justice isn't a matter of an event or a situation but gets translated into an inevitable systemic limitation ending up becoming the norm.
We will work on the themes of everyday life and experiential insights on exclusion and violence from the perspective of people with disabilities / chronic illness and /or their care givers. Along with academic insights of researchers working in that area.
The workshop will take place January 28–29, 2027, 10:00 – 12:00 am and 1:30–3:30 pm.
Registration opens on July, 15 2025. Please register until October, 31 2026 via the registration form.
Hello, I'm Mudita. I'm interested in understanding the reach of systemic violence within the societies, especially when it comes to people with disability and chronic illness. The focus area in my research is looking at the dominant understanding of care, routines, discipline and body in the context of the disabled/chronically ill, through critical lenses.
As a disabled person of colour myself, I have come to develop a deeper curiosity to understand the reach of violence that is often not accounted for in dominant day to day infrastructural and social realities.
This workshop is one of my earliest attempts to get in touch with collective experiential wisdom and to create solidarities through reflecting upon various experiences of exclusion /shame/ burden /guilt / urgency, felt within the bodies of people with disabilities/chronic illness in their day to day lives.
My interest lies in understanding the elusiveness of systemic violence perpetrated and maintained under the guise of care and good intentions. As a white working class, queer man from Brittany, a coastal region of western France that both suffered from dispossession and has been instrumental to French imperialism and colonial slavery, I am curious to understand from that place-position how whiteness, dominant masculinity, and straightness act as tools of systemic violence within the dominant understanding of care & how accountability in care can look like.
The venue is accessible via lifts. There is an accessible toilet on the ground floor. There is no all-gender toilet in the building. The nearest all-gender toilet is located in the IG Farben Haus, in the basement, room 0.203.
The CGC strives to ensure its events are as accessible as possible. If you require assistance to attend our event, please let us know your support needs by the October 15, 2026 by emailing cgcentrum@soz.uni-frankfurt.de. We will then try to minimise any barriers within our means.
You are welcome to attend this event with your children. Please contact us at the email address above by the October 15, 2026 if you would like us to arrange childcare as well. We look forward to seeing you there.