Tania Rispoli

Women at Work

24 January 2025

An undergraduate course taught by Tania Rispoli in the Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute on the gender, race, and class implications of work. February 19, March 19, March 26, and April 16 in the Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106 and online from 11:45 am to 1:00 pm.

Urban Care 

17 January 2025

Join us on Friday, January 31, from 10 am to 12 pm ET for a discussion on care, labor, and urban transformation

Ecological Care

5 January 2025

On Friday, January 17, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM ET, we will convene for a session exploring the intersections of care, ecology, and infrastructure.

Measuring Care

18 November 2024

How do we measure care? What are the benefits and the limitations? Sign up for the seminar of Friday, December 6, 12-2pm ET 

Unpaid Care Labor

3 November 2024

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 

18 October 2024

A seminar on abortion and health across borders. Register for the seminar on Friday, November 1, 12-2pm ET.

Durba Mitra: Seminar & Talk

29 September 2024

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”

Technologies of Care

27 September 2024

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

9 September 2024

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.

Nancy Folbre: Seminar & Talk

9 September 2024

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.

Working Papers Seminar Series 2024-2025

4 August 2024

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.

Working Papers Series 2022-2023

24 July 2023

September 16, 2022. 11 am First seminar of the working papers series featuring Samia Akther-Kahn & André Pinhel.Commentaries by Anne Allison & Deborah Jenson Samia Akhter-Kahn, “Unpaid productive activities and loneliness in later life: Results from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (2000-2014)” André Pinhel, “Racial Classification Categories and Health Inequities Studies in Brazil and USA” […]