In person event
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
Focusing on soil as a living archive, this workshop reflects on questions of time and maintenance through hands-on soil work.
🗓️ 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.
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.
Book Conversation with Jina B. Kim
Join us for a conversation with writer and scholar Jina Kim (Smith College) about her new book Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Duke University Press). Through this work, Kim reimagines care as a practice of survival, refusal, and collective world-building across disabled, queer, and racialized communities.
Book Conversation with Emma Amador
Join us for a conversation between historians Emma Amador and Cecilia Márquez. Drawing from her new book The Politics of Care Work (Duke University Press), Amador will explore how Puerto Rican women organized for social and economic justice through care work, both on the island and in the continental U.S., from the early 20th century to the present.
Revaluing Care Lab · Fall 2025 Program
The Revaluing Care Lab presents its Fall 2025 programming across three strands: the Working Papers Seminar Series, Care Conversations, and Composting Theory. Together, these initiatives explore care through feminist theory, political economy, ecological practice, and collaborative scholarship.
Composting Theory: Ecological Care in Practice
Composting Theory · Ecological Care in Practice is a hands-on workshop series developed by the Revaluing Care Lab in collaboration with the Duke Campus Farm. The series explores ecological care as a feminist and posthumanist practice through material engagement with soil and living systems, and collective reflection. Workshops are on scheduled Saturdays from 10 am to 12 pm ET.