Events
Care and Territory
(Bilingual session / Sesión bilingue)
Join us for the last session in our Working Papers Seminar series! This time featuring two working papers on community, care, and territory in Mexico: one tracing collective care practices across Cerro Tepepolco and the chinampas of Xochimilco, expanding care beyond the human to encompass land, water, and biological diversity, and another examining how anarcho-magonista women sustained the Mexican Revolution through emotional labor and mutual aid. Response by Holly Worthen (Benito Juárez Autonomous University of Oaxaca)
️ Friday, April 24, 2026
⏰12:00-2:00 PM (EDT)
Online (Zoom – Translated captioning available)
Registration free but required
Ancestral Care
Join our second-to-last Working Papers Seminar with Evan Auguste (CUNY) and Nadège Robertson (Foundation Espoir) as we explore Lakou Tanama — healing circles rooted in African and Taino worldviews that invoke ancestral memory and communal care to support Haitian communities amid crisis, reclaiming political agency and challenging narratives that pathologize Haitian identity. Comments by Deborah Jenson (Duke University).
️ Friday, April 17, 2026
⏰12:00-1:15 PM (EDT)
Online (Zoom – Translated captioning available)
Registration free but required
Cuidados Comunitarios
(Bilingual session / Sesión bilingue)
Join us to learn about community care practices as situated responses to gender-based violence and urban precarity in León, Guanajuato, Mexico through research by Marcia Moreno Benítez (ITESO), with a response from Verónica Gago (UBA)
️ Wednesday, April 8, 2026
⏰1:25-2:40 PM (EDT)
Online (Zoom – Translated captioning available)
Registration free but required
Book Conversation with Wendy Harcourt
Join us for a conversation with scholar and RCGE Board Member Wendy Harcourt about her new open-access book Conundrums of Care: Feminist Entanglements in Critical Development Studies. Responses from fellow Board Members Arturo Escobar (UNC), Felwine Sarr (Duke University), and Suzanne Bergeron (University of Michigan).
Wednesday, April 29 / 10:00-11:00AM (EDT) / Online (Zoom – Translated captioning available) / Registration free but required
Healing Care
Join us to learn about the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of touch in Gandhi’s care for the leprous body — and what this reveals about untouchability, stigma, and caregiving — through research by Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University), with a response from Harris Solomon (Duke University).
️ Friday, April 3, 2026
⏰12:00-1:30PM (EDT)
Hybrid (Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106 / Zoom)
️ Light lunch offered
Registration free but required
Infrastructures of Wellbeing
Another webinar! Join us to learn about the link between geography, gender, and subjective well-being in Italy through research by Erica Aloè (Sapienza University of Rome), Roberta Di Stefano (Sapienza University of Rome), Marina Zannella (ISTAT), and Alessandra De Rose (Sapienza University of Rome).
️ Friday, March 27, 2026
⏰12:00-1:15PM (EDT)
Online
Registration free but required
Disreputable Care
Join us for our upcoming Working Paper Seminar with Viviana Valle Gomez (UCSB). By bringing ‘anarchowhore epistemologies’ to the forefront of feminist and labor studies, we will explore the inherently caring, anti-state, and world-making practices of sex workers.
️ Thursday, March 26, 2026
⏰11:45AM-1:15PM (EDT)
Online
Registration free but required
Gender History in the Time of Gender Ideology
We invite you to the annual Anne Firor Scott Lecture in Women’s and Gender History!
Thursday, March 19, 2026
⏰ 5:00-6:30PM
Pink Parlor, East Duke Building
️ Light dinner offered
Registration free but required
Everyday Ecologies: Working with Soil Time
A conversation and an opportunity to get up close to the living (and dying) post-plantation soils at the Duke Campus Farm, and to think together about the limits of repair. We’ll read an article by Anna Krzywoszynska and learn practical techniques for cultivating the Piedmont’s notoriously heavy clay soils.
️ Saturday, April 25, 2026
10:00AM-12:00PM
Duke Campus Farm
Light breakfast included
Registration is free but required
Breakdown: Thinking and Making Compost Together
This session centers compost as both material process and theoretical problem, exploring decay, waste, labor, and transformation through collective compost-making and discussion.
️ Saturday, March 28, 2026
10:00AM-12:00PM
Duke Campus Farm
Light breakfast included
Registration is free but required
Cultured: Edible Experiments with More-than-Human Worlds
A conversation on the intimate, interspecies connections made possible by the everyday work of fermentation, in a workshop bringing science, critical theory, and community together. Participants will work co-create living kombucha or sauerkraut ferments to bring home.
️ Saturday, February 21, 2026
10:00AM-12:00PM
Duke Campus Farm
Light breakfast included
Registration is free but required
Care, Radically
Join us for a work-in-progress presentation by Jessie Wilkerson (University of Tennessee), examining how networks of care emerge within labor conflict in Industrial Appalachia. Drawing on labor history and archival research, Care, Radically traces care as a collective and conflictual practice.
Monday, February 19, 2026
⏰ 5:00-6:30PM
Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106
️ Light dinner offered
Registration free but required