Seminars
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
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
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
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.
Informal Care in Southern Europe
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Informal Care in Southern Europe, examining how gendered dynamics and occupational impacts shape the challenges of informal care in the region. Monday, October 20, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.
Reproductive Justice and Economics
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Reproductive Justice and Economics, exploring how feminist economic frameworks can center reproductive justice as a core research paradigm. Wednesday, October 1, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.
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.