Name: Expanding the Community of Fate by Expanding the Community of Care
Start: 2026-10-28T18:15:00+00:00
End: 2026-10-28T20:00:00+00:00
Location: The River Room, King's Building - King's College London

Expanding the Community of Fate by Expanding the Community of Care

A Department of Political Economy Distinguished Lecture with Professor Margaret Levi.
About this Event

All of us need or give care - or both - over the course of our lives. Thus, care is a widely shared interest that can become the basis of an expanded and inclusive community of fate in which people take responsibility for those in need, even if they are strangers or unlikely to be able to reciprocate.

This talk draws on examples of care networks and organisations throughout the world. It then considers the conditions necessary for building and sustaining expanded communities of fate and for transforming them into collective action organisations meant to ensure a better political economy of care.

SPEAKER

Margaret Levi is Professor Emerita of Political Science, Senior Fellow of Center for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law (CDDRL), and co-director of Ethics and Society Review, Stanford University; and Bacharach Professor Emerita at the University of Washington. A past president of the American Political Science Association, she was Sara Miller McCune Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS). Awarded the 2019 Johan Skytte Prize, 2020 Falling Walls Breakthrough, and an honorary doctorate of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, she is in the National Academy of Sciences, British Academy, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and American Philosophical Society. The author of eight books and numerous articles, she studies trustworthy governance and cooperative behavior in the interest of others.