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1 IJDL Workshop re: 2021 Special Edition - COVID-19: Lessons for and from Vulnerability Theory [1] (2021)

handle is hein.peggy/fmadllty0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Date: February 19th 2021 3pm-6pm (UK time) Location: zoom (a link will be forwarded in due course by email) Agenda 3 - 3.15: Welcome and Introductions 3.15 - 4.30 presentations and discussion / feedback x 4* 3.15-3.35: Lisa Rodgers: Re-imagining state responsibility for workers following Covid-19: a vulnerability approach. 3.35-3.55: Daniel Newman, Jess Mant and Faith Gordon: Vulnerability, legal need and technology. 3.55-4.05: Ellen Gordon-Bouvier: Vulnerable bodies and invisible work: the covid-19 pandemic and social reproduction. 4.05-4.25: Kevin Jobe: The jurisprudence of universal subjectivity: covid-19, vulnerability and housing. 4.25-4.45: comfort break 4.45 - 5.45 presentations and discussion feedback x 3* 4.45-5.05: Danielle Denny: National measures to global problems: the inequalities in the health system made more blatant due to the Covid-19 pandemic. 5.05-5.25: Mary Kiwanuka: Institutional vulnerabilities, covid-19, resilience mechanisms and societal relationships in developing countries. 5.25-5.45: Sylvie Da Lomba and Saskia Vermeylen: Unconditional hospitality in times of covid-19: re-thinking social welfare provision for asylum seekers in Scotland through ethical vulnerability analysis. 5.45 - 6: Concluding thoughts and timetable for submitting papers / publication *Authors are asked to provide a brief (10 minute) summary of papers - outlining, in particular, how engagement with vulnerability theory has helped develop core arguments / assessments. All authors are asked, in preparation for the workshop / when reviewing their papers to: 1. Watch Martha Fineman's keynote to the International Society of Family Law given in Oct 2020: a really good reminder of the central concepts - see https://vimeocom/453415455 2. Consider common themes. Not all will be prominent in all papers but, where relevant, authors are asked to consider the following aspects of their research in the context of the pandemic: the human as 'embodied' and 'embedded'; the vulnerability of institutions and legal structures; the role of technology; the notion of 'harm' (physical, psychological, economic, social); costs and consequences of the state's failure to act.