Labor
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
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
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
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
The Activist Intellectual Legacy of Eileen Boris
Eileen Boris’s retirement conference looks toward the future of the history of care work.
The Social and Cultural Role of Cooperation
In the face of growing social fragmentation and a crisis of care, cooperation offers an alternative way of organizing economic and social life. Drawing on Beatrice Potter Webb and the Italian cooperative tradition, this piece explores how cooperativism can regenerate social bonds beyond competition and extraction.
The Care Economy Revolution
Two very different projects argue that the care economy could bring about the end of capitalism as we know it.
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.
The Unseen Price: Gender and the Crisis of Unpaid Care in Southern Europe
In Southern European countries, the welfare system has historically relied on one silent pillar: the family. However, this once-resilient model is now an unsustainable trap, threatening gender equity and jeopardizing social sustainability. It is time to re-evaluate who truly pays the price of care.
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.