Care Conversations Series · Fall 2025
Jocelyn Olcott and Tania Rispoli
26 August 2025The 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.
Book Conversation with Lina-María Murillo
Fighting for Control: Power, Reproductive Care, and Race in the US-Mexico Borderlands (UNC Press)
Friday, September 26 · 12:00–1:30 PM ET
Revaluing Care Lab, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4
In conversation with: Sarah Deutsch
Co-sponsored by: FHI, History Hub, LSGS, GSF
Book Conversation with Emma Amador
The Politics of Care Work: Puerto Rican Women Organizing for Social Justice (Duke University Press)
Wednesday, October 8 · 5:00–6:30 PM ET
Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4
In conversation with: Cecilia Marquez
Co-sponsored by: FHI, GSF, History Hub, LSGS
Book Conversation with Jina Kim
Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Duke University Press)
Wednesday, October 29 · 5:30–7:00 PM ET
Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4
In conversation with: Emily Rogers
Co-sponsored by: FHI, GSF, History Hub, Disability Studies Working Group
Nayanika Ghosh
The Politics of Care Work, Oct 8