Events
Seminars
Unpaid Care Labor
In this seminar we will discuss how childcare represents unpaid care labor. Join us on Wednesday, November 13, 10am-12pm ET!
Reproductive and Environmental Justice across the US-Mexico Border
A seminar on abortion and health across borders. Register for the seminar on Friday, November 1, 12-2pm ET.
Technologies of Care
Is technology a vehicle of care or of control? Register for the seminar on Friday, October 18, 12-2pm ET
Working with Time-Use Studies
Is time-use a measure for care or exploitation? Three working papers of emerging scholars from the United States, India, and Sri Lanka, will examine the trade-offs of time-use. Register for Friday, September 27, 9-11am ET.
Men, Masculinities, and Care
This seminar, organized by Riikka Prattes, focuses on the relationship between masculinities and care. Register for September 10 from 9 to 11 a.m. ET
Working Papers Seminar Series 2024-2025
The working papers seminar will start its third year in September 2024 with generous support from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) collaborative research grant.
Revaluing Care Lab at the FHI
Durba Mitra: Seminar & Talk
Feminist historian Durba Mitra will give a talk on “Protest as Care” and present during a seminar her manuscript in progress “The Future That Was: Feminist Thought in Decolonizing World”
Reading/Practice Group on “Hospicing Modernity”
Let’s get together to read and practice how we can interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet! Co-promoted with the Franklin Humanities Institute.
Nancy Folbre: Seminar & Talk
Nancy Folbre will give a seminar on her manuscript-in-progress “Accounting for Care,” as well as public talk, entitled “Valuing Care: Time, Money, and Capabilities.” Both events will be in person at the Revaluing Care Lab at the FHI in Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106.
Conferences
“Histories and Futures of Care”. The Fourth Global Carework Summit
5-7 June 2025, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
“Historias y futuros del cuidado”. Cuarto Encuentro Global de Trabajo de Cuidado
Desde el 5 al 7 de junio, 2025. Universidad de Duke, Durham, Carolina del Norte
Visualizing Care Imaginaries & Infrastructures 2022
Transnational Conference on May 12, 13, 14, 2022 on QiQoChat