Jennifer Nash

Composting Theory: Ecological Care in Practice 2025-2026

A hands-on workshop series in collaboration with the Duke Campus Farm, “Composting Theory: Ecological Care in Practice” explores ecological care through feminist and posthumanist readings, soil practices, and collective reflection. Sessions are scheduled Saturdays from 10 am to 12 pm ET.

Book Conversation with James McMaster

Join us for a conversation with writer and scholar James McMaster about his new book Racial Care: On Asian American Suffering and Survival. Through this work, McMaster examines the forms of care that Asian Americans have taken up to survive racialized suffering under neoliberal capitalism and white supremacy, showing how care can both sustain life and extract it from those who perform it. At the Care Lab, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4.

Book Conversation with Jina B. Kim

10 October 2025

Join us for a conversation with writer and scholar Jina Kim (Smith College) about her new book Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Duke University Press). Through this work, Kim reimagines care as a practice of survival, refusal, and collective world-building across disabled, queer, and racialized communities.