Governance
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. 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
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
The Power of Data in Care Work Policy
What can a laundry bucket teach us about how beliefs about the value of quantitative data in policy making shape efforts to address unpaid care work?
The Care Economy Revolution
Two very different projects argue that the care economy could bring about the end of capitalism as we know it.
Care is Climate Infrastructure: Report from COP30
COP30 in Belém showed that there is no possible climate justice without placing care at the center of global solutions and investments.
Taxing the Top
As the distribution of both wealth and income has become unequal, political efforts to tax the top to finance investment in public goods like childcare have gained traction.
Urban Care in Bogotá
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online bilingual seminar on Urban Care in Bogotá, exploring how the city’s Manzanas del Cuidado (Care Blocks) reshape local governance and the politics of care in Latin America. Wednesday, October 22, 2025 · 5:30–7:00 PM ET · Online
The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”
The private cost of raising children in the United States is at least twice as high as recent estimates suggest.
The First 1,000 Days of Life Are the Real National Security
What if early childhood care is the key to preventing violent conflicts?
The Care Tide: Laying the Foundations for Transformative Policies in Latin America
A hard-fought campaign to recognize care as a human right has scored some important wins this month.