Events
Care Against Violence: Gender Violence, Reproductive Justice, and Social Reproduction
Join us for our first workshop to discuss articles in preparation for the journal Care in Common.
Chasing Independence — Book Conversation with Guillermina Altomonte
Join us for a conversation between NYU sociologist Guillermina Altomonte and Duke historian James Chappel about Guillermina’s new book, Chasing Independence: Growing Old in the Shadow of an American Ideal.
Notes from the Sex Worker Left: Lumpen Theory — Book Conversation with Heather Berg
Please join us on Thursday, November 5, 5 p.m. EST (UTC+5) for a conversation with Heather Berg on her forthcoming book!
Water and Care — Working Papers Seminar
Join us for a Working Papers Seminar on Water and Care, featuring two papers that explore the entanglement of care, ecology, and extraction in coastal and deep-sea environments.
Making Care Work — Book Conversation with Nancy Folbre
Please join us on September 10, 12-1:30 EDT, for a conversation with Nancy Folbre on her recent book!
Learning from Latin America: Workshop Series (2026-2027)
Each issue of our upcoming OA journal is anchored by a hybrid mini-conference hosted at Duke University, bringing together scholars, practitioners, and creative contributors to develop the issue’s themes in dialogue. Check out the calendar for our mini-conference series here!
Care Conversation Series (2026 – 2027)
Check out the Care Conversations we have planned for the 2026-2027 AY! We are updating this regularly, so circle back to see what events we’ve added.
Composting Theory: Ecological Care in Practice 2025-2026
A hands-on workshop series in collaboration with the Duke Campus Farm, “Composting Theory: Ecological Care in Practice” explores ecological care through feminist and posthumanist readings, soil practices, and collective reflection. Sessions are scheduled Saturdays from 10 am to 12 pm ET.
Care and Territory
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
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