Infrastructure(s) and Care: Online Workshop
Join us online for Infrastructure(s) and Care, the second workshop in our Lessons from Latin America series!
Lessons from Latin America Workshop Series, Workshop II
🗓️ December 3 to 5, 2026 | 📍Online (Zoom – Translated captioning available)
Care is shaped by the worlds it sustains. It is always already embedded in the material, social, institutional, and ecological structures that order life as we know it. But care is also a creative force, giving rise to alternative structures and alternative worlds. The encounter between care and infrastructure(s) has long motivated care theorizing, but is taking on particular force in Latin America today, where an unprecedented array of such encounters continue to make the region one of the most generative sites for thinking through this phenomenon. Drawing on cases from across Latin America and beyond, the workshop asks: What might these encounters teach us about care itself, about how it travels, and about the worlds it interacts with and helps create?
Join us online as we workshop the papers that will appear in the second issue of Care in Common, our new open-access, interdisciplinary journal on care. Authors will present works in progress, receive sustained feedback from respondents and fellow participants, and use that conversation to strengthen their articles before peer review and publication.
Full Program (GMT-5)
Thursday, December 3
5:30 to 7:00 PM: Keynote address by Natalia Moreno Salamanca
Friday, December 4
10:00 to 11:30 AM: Panel 1: Care: From Right to Political Infrastructure
- Mariana Brocca (UNICEN/Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center), “Construir para cuidar: la universalidad del derecho al cuidado como criterio para la infraestructura en el caso argentino”
- Fernanda Rebelato (Dublin City University), “The Right to Care: Between Transformative Commitments and Policy Infrastructures in Brazil”
- Respondent: Julio Bango
1:30 to 3:00 PM: Panel 2: Labor and Care Infrastructure in Historical Perspective
- Aysla Sabine Rocha Teixeira (UFMG), “Pode o Estado criar uma família? As mães sociais e o sistema de acolhimento institucional no Brasil”
- Fernando Sinuhé Díaz Gómez (Autonomous University of Mexico City), “Las trabajadoras del sindicato de costureras 19 de septiembre y el CENDAI: la construcción de una infraestructura de cuidados colectiva en la Ciudad de México 1985 a 1989”
- Respondent: Sarah Small
4:00 to 5:30 PM: Panel 3: Care and the City: Metrics and Principles
- Antonio Ruiz Capilla (IPP-CSIC), “Where Care Counts: Territorial Metrics and the Making of Public Care Infrastructure in Bogotá”
- Isabella Lundy Mogollón (Erasmus University Rotterdam/Duke University), “Configurations of Institutional Responsibility in Bogotá’s Sistema Distrital del Cuidado”
- Respondent: Natalia Moreno Salamanca
Saturday, December 5
10:00 to 11:30 AM: Panel 4: Care as Climate Infrastructure
- Divya Priyadarshini (Delhi School of Economics/Duke Sanford), “Who Cares for Water? Resettlement and the Gendered Infrastructures of Provisioning in Delhi”
- Natalia Gavazzo, Lucila Nejamkis, and Carolina Robino (CONICET/IDRC), “Care as Climate Infrastructure: Evidence from Participatory Action Research in Six Latin American Countries”
- Respondent: Caren Grown
1:00 to 2:00 PM: Closing Roundtable, Central Themes and Future Research
- Natalia Moreno Salamanca, Julio Bango, Sarah Small, Caren Grown
How to join:
After you register below, you will receive the Zoom link by email, along with all workshop papers, which will be pre-circulated to registered participants before the event. Questions can be sent to revaluingcarelab@duke.edu.