The Revaluing Care Lab invites faculty across disciplines to join a reading/practice group on Hospicing Modernity by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira. Through work with this text – both an Please join Saskia Cornes, Jennifer Nash, Jocelyn Olcott, Tania Rispoli and the Revaluing Care Lab in a faculty reading/practice group of Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s Hospicing Modernity. Our hope is to expand the conversation on care and climate, both in practice and in pedagogy. Through work with this text – both an Indigenous/Critical Education approach to care, and a workbook for reimagining how we respond to its crisis – we hope to expand what is possible (and understand what may not be possible) within the university in the context of climate change and other overlapping crises.

Three sessions over the course of the fall will include a combination of conversation and praxis, drawing on the exercises offered in the text. Because of the nature of the text, and because part of the intention is to explore possibilities for a community of practice, we hope that attendees can commit to at least two sessions (and ideally all three, once we find a third date). 

Our first meeting will be on Friday October 25th, from 3:00pm to 4:15pm in Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106.

Please come to this first meeting having read up to p. 85 in the paperback edition (to the end of the section 2.2 “A Single Story ‘Forward’”).

The next meeting will be on Friday November 8, from 3: 00pm to 4:15pm. A third meeting has yet to be scheduled. 

Snacks and refreshments will be provided! 

RSVP, emailing: revaluingcarelab@duke.edu 

Revaluing Care Lab