You are cordially invited to the first conference of the lecture series on invisible labor organized by the Aesop Chair in collaboration with the Research Centre on Ethics. For this first conference, we are pleased to welcome Mirjam Müller (University of Glasgow) with a presentation entitled “(Un)free Care: A Normative Account of the Care Crisis.”

The event will take place on February 26 at 4:30 p.m. in room C-2059 of the Lionel Groulx building at the University of Montreal (3150 Jean-Brillant Street, Montreal, QC H3T 1N8). Please register via the following link.

The Lecture Series on Invisible Work is an initiative by Denise Celentano (University of Montreal), holder of the Aesop Chair, in collaboration with the Research Centre on Ethics.

For more information, please contact Denise Celentano at the following address: denise.celentano@umontreal.ca.

General information about the Lecture Series: The concept of invisible work describes the forms of work that fall outside the traditional model of waged employment and are not recognized, in a monetary and/or symbolic sense, to the point that even their nature as “work” is often disputed. Invisible work takes place behind the scenes of more recognized and valued work. Given its liminal nature with respect to long-established categories, it serves as a prism for exploring a number of issues, from recognition to social segregation to the critical questioning of the normative assumptions behind what is supposed to count as “work.” The notion of invisible work promises to shed light, as it were, on the mechanisms of valorization that operate behind social cooperation. This series of lectures, open to the public, explores the subject from both a philosophical and interdisciplinary perspective.