Keynote Speakers

prof. Maurice Hamington

Maurice Hamington is a Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Portland State University. He specializes in the theory and application of feminist care ethics. His works on Jane Addams include co-editing, along with Pat Shields and Joseph Soeters, the Oxford Handbook of Jane Addams (2023) and editing Feminist Interpretations of Jane Addams (2010), as well as writing Embodied Care: Jane Addams, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Feminist Ethics (2004). He contributed the Jane Addams entry in the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. His latest book, Revolutionary Care: Commitment and Ethos (Routledge 2024), argues for a care revolution right now and that everyone can participate. He is the co-author of Care Ethics and Poetry (2019) with Ce Rosenow. Hamington has edited or co-edited Feminism and Hospitality: Care Ethics, Religion, and Spiritual Traditions (2022), Care Ethics in the Age of Precarity (2021), Care Ethics and Political Theory (2015), Applying Care Ethics to Business (2011), Socializing Care (2006), and Gender in the Host/Guest Relationship (2010). He has also authored numerous publications on the philosophy of Jane Addams. For more information about his scholarly activities, visit mhamington.com.

 

Danielle Lake is the Director of Design Thinking and Associate Professor in Human Service Studies at Elon University. Inspired by the work of Jane Addams, her teaching, research, and service explore the potential and the challenges of emergent, relational, place-based design for addressing wicked problems and transforming social systems. As the director of the Center for Design Thinking, she oversees a place-based storytelling and bridge building initiative informed by Addams’s own social justice storytelling initiatives. Her scholarship on Addams includes “Feminist Pragmatist Design: Evolutionary Systems Change” (2023), “Jane Addams, Social Design, and Wicked Problems” (2022), “Situating Democracy and Social Ethics” (2021), “Emergent, Relational Revolution” (2021), and more. She is coauthor of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Feminist pragmatism. In 2021, she edited a special collection in Hypatia featuring current initiatives informed by the work of Addams. You can learn more about her work at https://www.elon.edu/u/elon-by-design/