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The aim of the authors’ text is to consider the ethics of care in the context of academic performative didactics, to which the authors dedicated the book Performative Didactics for Humanists. A Matter of Coincidences published in 2021 would describe, despite the different academic disciplines the authors represent (history and anthropology), as practicing care. As part of (teachers') history teaching, it was work with migration memory consisting in performative processing of migration narratives into the form of a joint undertaking of university and primary school students, which was their performative reading. In the case of (engaged) anthropology, the efforts were based on volunteering, as an activity for the benefit of people migrating and detained against their will in Secure Centers for Foreigners (SOdC). In both cases, taught in a performative way, the students were confronted with the unpredictable effect of their actions (the teaching axis) while their emotional, cognitive and creative resources were mobilized. Most importantly, achievement thereof was a reward in itself. The relevant context in which the authors consider care as a subject of study is the war in Ukraine and its impact on women's lives. In the authors’ opinion, “ethics of care and justice” require reconsideration and social practice through education.