Lessons from Latin America — Mini-Conference Series (2026-2027)

Date: October 22–24, 2026
Location: Duke University | Hybrid

Simultaneous interpretation (English-Spanish) available for all sessions.

Thursday 5-6:30: Keynote address

Lucía Cavallero, “Transfeminism against Financial Colonization of Social Reproduction”

Reception to follow. 

Friday: 

10-12:  Panel 1—Care & Activism

Lara Islinger (Leuphana University Lüneburg), “‘El Estado no me cuida, me cuidan mis amigxs’:  Transnational Feminist Abortion Accompaniment and Collective Care against Reproductive Coercion and Carcerality” 

Mariana Yurani Camacho Chávez (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey—Guadalajara), “Migrant Women Activists and Community Care in Mexico”

Respondent:  Elisabeth Jay Friedman (University of San Francisco)

12-2:  Lunch for all registered attendees

2-4: Panel 2—Gender Violence 

Jaimee Swift (James Madison University), “Toward Bem Viver & Reparação: The 2nd National Black Women’s March & Black Feminists at the Vanguard for Reparation and Good Living in Brazil & Beyond”

Viaani Coral Mendoza López (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), “Estrategias del cuidado del cuerpo en mujeres migrantes en el sur de México, Chiapas”

Respondent:  Holly Worthen (Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez—Oaxaca) 

4:30-6:30: Panel 3: Mutual Aid and Popular Economies 

Florencia Daniela Pacífico (Centro de Innovación de los Trabajadores, CONICET-Universidad Metropolitana para la Educación y el Trabajo), “Cuidados comunitarios y violencias: trabajo sociocomunitario, espacialidades y economía popular en Argentina”

Erika Cecilia Montoya Zavala (Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa) & María Luz Cruz Torres (Arizona State University), “Ayuda mutua y redes de apoyo en inmigrantes trabajadoras remuneradas en cuidados infantiles en un contexto antiinmigrante, Phoenix, Arizona, Estados Unidos”

Respondent: Lucía Cavallero (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Saturday: 

10-12: Panel 4—Care in Practice 

Lara Islinger (Leuphana University Lüneburg), “Transnational Feminist Organizing  – Abortion Accompaniment Across Borders”

Hana Mesquita (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), “The Making of Feticide: A Reproductive Governance Analysis of Political and Biomedical Attacks on Legal Abortion in Brazil”

Labila Sumayah Musoke (Afya na Haki Institute and Initiative for Social and Economic Rights), “Sewn for his pleasure:  A decolonial and reproductive justice analysis of the husband stitch”

Respondent:  Tania Rispoli (Duke University)

12-2: Lunch for all registered attendees

2-4: Closing Round Table—Central Themes and Future Research 

Lucía Cavallero (Universidad de Buenos Aires)

Elisabeth Jay Friedman (University of San Francisco)

Holly Worthen (Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez—Oaxaca)