Events
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
Book Conversation with James McMaster
Join us for a conversation with writer and scholar James McMaster about his new book Racial Care: On Asian American Suffering and Survival. Through this work, McMaster examines the forms of care that Asian Americans have taken up to survive racialized suffering under neoliberal capitalism and white supremacy, showing how care can both sustain life and extract it from those who perform it. At the Care Lab, Smith Warehouse, Bay 4.
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.
Aula Verde – Tree Room: Art and Science for Climate Justice
As part of the series “Composting Theory: Ecological Care in Practice,” the Revaluing Care Lab at the FHI hosts “Aula Verde – Tree Room: Art and Science for Climate Justice,” a participatory workshop with artist and environmental engineer Andrea Conte exploring ecological art, forest science, and climate justice. Saturday, October 25, 2025 · 10:00 AM–12:00 PM ET · Duke Campus Farm.