Cultural care
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 (Lakou Lapè) 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
Book Conversation with Wendy Harcourt
Join us for a conversation with scholar and RCGE Board Member Wendy Harcourt about her new open-access book Conundrums of Care: Feminist Entanglements in Critical Development Studies. Drawing on stories from different places, peoples, and histories, the book illuminates how care is understood across key feminist debates — from social reproduction and interspecies relations in posthumanism, to environmental justice in feminist political ecology, to reciprocity and accountability in postdevelopment and decolonialism. Responses from fellow Board Members Arturo Escobar (UNC), Felwine Sarr (Duke University), and Suzanne Bergeron (University of Michigan).
🗓️ Wednesday, April 29
⏰10:00-11:00AM (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
Dispossession, World Ecology, and Care: A View from Kenya
Capitalism remakes relations among humans and between humans and more-than-human natures. This process has fostered a minimalist, productivist notion of care, commodifying or eroding relations that resist accumulation. Focusing on colonial Kenya, I explore how ecological crises and commodification disrupted interspecies patterns of care central to pastoral Maasai lifeways.
Caring Archives: Tift Merritt on Care and the Music Industry
The Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute invites you to an in-person talk by Tift Merritt on the intersections of care and the music industry in the era of digital streaming. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 19, from 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM ET, at the Revaluing Care Lab in Durham.
Surviving the Future: Practices of Care in A’a Teyze’s Garden
The labors of Afro-Turks with the natural world that lie outside of purely productivist grammars of relating within which they are entangled “spatialize acts of survival” that are disruptive enough as to wage war against domination.
The Care Ethics Research Consortium
Maurice Hamington reports on the recent CERC conference in Utrecht.