Tania Rispoli
Fragile Care
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an in-person Working Papers Seminar on Fragile Care, bringing together research on care at its most vulnerable edges—from maternal labor under conditions of health crisis to the emergent norms shaping human–machine relations. Through feminist theory, science and technology studies, and political economy, the seminar examines how care is redefined across social and technological infrastructures. Friday, February 6, 2026 · 12:00–1:30 PM ET, in person.
Cooperatives and Care
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Cooperatives and Care, exploring the social and cultural role of cooperative organizations in revaluing care and labor. Wednesday, November 5, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.
Informal Care in Southern Europe
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Informal Care in Southern Europe, examining how gendered dynamics and occupational impacts shape the challenges of informal care in the region. Monday, October 20, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.
Care Conversations Series 2025-2026: New Books
The Care Conversations Series invites leading scholars to discuss new books that reframe care across labor, gender, race, disability, and social justice. Each event pairs the author with a Duke interlocutor for cross-disciplinary dialogue. The Fall 2025 series will take place in Bay 4, Smith Warehouse, and is co-sponsored by the Revaluing Care Lab and campus partners.
Women’s Work and Care in Argentina
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project opens its Fall 2025 Working Papers Seminar Series with an online seminar on women’s work and care in Argentina, exploring how labor and care have been reshaped in the neoliberal era. Wednesday, September 17, 2025 · 5:30–7:00 PM ET, online.
Working Papers Seminar Series 2025-2026
Check out our 2025-2026 WPS series. Brought to you with generous support from Duke University’s Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI).
Women at Work
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
Join us on Friday, January 31, from 10 am to 12 pm ET for a discussion on care, labor, and urban transformation
Working Papers Seminar Series 2024-2025
Check out our 2024-2025 WPS series. Brought to you with generous support from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant.
Working Papers Seminar Series 2022-2023
Check out our 2022-2023 WPS series. Brought to you with generous support from Duke Humanities Unbounded.
“Contesting Care” Conference (2021)
Conference organized by Duke University & University of Exeter on June 30 and July 1 2021
Vaccine Equity Project (2021)
Global health as a discipline grapples with how to best address disparities in health outcomes and care delivery worldwide, with the health of women, adolescents and children being a World Health Organization priority. But vaccine equity is also a feminist issue.