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1 Vulnerability and the Social Reproduction of Resilient Societies: May 29-31, 2018 [i] (2018)

handle is hein.peggy/fltvsrrs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Vulnerability and the Social Reproduction of Resilient Societies May 29-31, 2018 Emory University School of Law 1301 Clifton Rd, Atlanta GA 30322 The conference will consider the way our laws, norms, values, and policies shape societal institutions and social relationships, and ultimately function to reproduce society as a whole. Understanding the reproduction of society takes into account more than the birth and caretaking of children, although this is one facet of the process. Rather, we are interested in exploring how the reproduction of society itself rests upon the perpetuation of interlocking institutions and relationships between individuals, social institutions, and the state. We hope that by foregrounding the development and continued operation of these relationships, we may rethink fundamental questions of law and policy and toward the goal of creating resilient societies. This expanded understanding of reproduction rests upon the application of vulnerability theory. Vulnerability theory argues that law must recognize how actual human lives are socially and materially dynamic, and are shaped across the life-course by the inescapable possibility of change. Since we are universally vulnerable to such changes, both positive and negative, an essential task must be to explore the strategies by which we collectively and individually respond to inherent human vulnerability. This perspective brings sharply into focus the public and private institutions society has created to manage vulnerability and provide resilience, including healthcare, education, the family, workplaces, prisons, markets, judicial systems, and structures of sovereignty and security. Considering the reproduction of society through its resilience-conferring institutions offers a multidimensional frame to assess the functioning and failure of those institutions, as well as the role of the individual and state in responding to human vulnerability. How do our laws, norms, and values operate to facilitate, preserve, limit, and/or restrict human and societal well-being? And, how can a vulnerability approach help us to move critical inquiry beyond traditional and individualized perspectives, redefine questions of responsibility, and account for a vision of social justice that transcends the merely transactional? This conference is being hosted by the Vulnerability and Human Condition (VHC) Initiative at Emory Law School, with support from the Center for Reproductive Health Research in the SouthEast (RISE) at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence at Emory. Tuesday, May 29 - Applying Vulnerability Theory to Social Reproduction 9:00 am - 9:30 am BREAKFAST 9:30 am - 9:45 am Welcome 9:45 am - 11:45 am Conceptualizing Social Reproduction * Law as Pedagogy I Lua Kamal Yuille (University of Kansas School of Law) * Grounding Economic Production in Social Resilience I Martha T. MCluskey (University of Buffalo School of Law) * Neoliberalism, Vulnerability, and Contingent Employment I Jonathan Fineman (Florida A&M University College of Law) * Vulnerable Beings of the World Unite: Vulnerability Theory as Foundation for New Forms ofSolidarity I Camilla Sabroe lydebjerg (Roskilde University; University College Absalon) 11:45 am - 12:45 pm LUNCH