Vinnustofa í heimspeki: Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir

Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir, Vulnerability, the job interview and invisible disability

Vorið 2023 stendur Heimspekistofnun fyrir vinnustofum (e. work-in-progress) þar sem ýmsir yngri rannsakendur við HÍ kynna og/eða efna til umræðna um rannsóknir sínar. Á annarri vinnustofunni talar Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir. Nanna er nýdoktor í heimspeki við Háskóla Íslands og vinnur við nýdoktorsverkefnið „Hlustað á þreytu“ en doktorsrannsókn hennar fjallaði um berskjöldun á tímum nýfrjálshyggju. Viðburðurinn verður á ensku að þessu sinni.

Staður og stund: 2. mars kl. 15-16:30 í Aðalbyggingu HÍ, stofu A220.

Titill og útdráttur á ensku:

Vulnerability, the job interview and invisible disability

The concept of vulnerability has been popular for the last years and decades both within academic debates and within mainstream self-help culture. Within a feminist, interdisciplinary discourse, an ethics of vulnerability has emerged, the most prominent figure of that discourse being Judith Butler. This ethics has had powerful influence on movements such as #MeToo, but the question remains: can people follow this form of ethics in their everyday lives? A particular form of “vulnerability” might consist in being chronically ill, which more often than not means that the disability is invisible and a person needs to disclose of it. While such disclosures have been a transformative part of e.g. internet activism, would the person talking about her life on the internet, disclose of her invisible disability in the job interview? Disclosing of a disability whilst competing with a great number of other applicants for the same job, is likely to decrease your changes of acquiring the job. Thus, the job interview reveals a major limitations to the actualisation of the ethics of vulnerability. It shows the importance of an interrelated account of ethics and politics for a society where people can open up about particular vulnerabilities they want to share.