Social Practices
Book Conversation with Emma Amador
Join us for a conversation between historians Emma Amador and Cecilia Márquez. Drawing from her new book The Politics of Care Work (Duke University Press), Amador will explore how Puerto Rican women organized for social and economic justice through care work, both on the island and in the continental U.S., from the early 20th century to the present.
Composting Theory: Ecological Care in Practice
Composting Theory · Ecological Care in Practice is a hands-on workshop series developed by the Revaluing Care Lab in collaboration with the Duke Campus Farm. The series explores ecological care as a feminist and posthumanist practice through material engagement with soil and living systems, and collective reflection. Workshops are on scheduled Saturdays from 10 am to 12 pm ET.
Care Conversations Series
The Care Conversations Series invites leading scholars to discuss new books that reframe care across labor, gender, race, disability, and social justice. Each event pairs the author with a Duke interlocutor for cross-disciplinary dialogue. The Fall 2025 series will take place in Bay 4, Smith Warehouse, and is co-sponsored by the Revaluing Care Lab and campus partners.
Working Papers Seminar Series 2025-2026
This is the fourth edition of the Working Papers Seminar Series, an online forum where early- and mid-career scholars share work in progress with experts from the interdisciplinary field of care studies. The Fall 2025 cycle is fully supported by the Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University.
Learning from Migrant Care Workers About Transformative Ethics
The intersection of eldercare and migration reveals critical blind spots in dominant understandings of care ethics and practice.
Is it Love and Unpaid Work? Variations on an Emerging Profession in the Popular Care Economy
Argentina’s popular care economy reopens questions about knowledge and labor “from below”, as well as their economic, political, and societal valorization in processes of professionalization.
Tejiendo desbordes para continuar cuidando: el caso de los comedores populares de Lima, Perú
Las mujeres de los comedores populares generan diversas formas de agencia conscientes o no, feministas explícitas o no, para asegurar directa e indirectamente el cuidado. Se trata de un ejercicio de desborde constante del Estado desde lo cotidiano y, a través de relaciones de cooperación y/o confrontación con el Estado.
Creating Common Care (Bilingual Seminar)
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project invites you to a seminar on Creating Common Care, examining how community care structures intersect with labor, the state, and economic precarity in Latin America. The event will take place online on Friday, April 4, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern Time.
Destruction as Care
Destruction as care means imagining more-than-human flourishing. The experience of Galician common lands challenges the idea that care only sustains life. Acts of destruction, like cutting trees, can also be care, questioning whose life is being reproduced and why. More-than-human relationalities in land management expand ideas of ecological reciprocity.
Discretion or Standardization? How States Assess Eligibility for Home Care
Millions of elderly people and people with disabilities depend on Medicaid-funded home care services. But there is a lot of variation in how states evaluate home care eligibility. Standardized assessments leave room for discretion and interpretation of what constitutes disability – which can be both a tool for personalized care and an obstacle for developing quality benchmarks.
Urban Care
Join us on Friday, January 31, from 10 am to 12 pm ET for a discussion on care, labor, and urban transformation
Sex, Work, and Care
Sex workers forge critical connections to end gender violence, combat stigma and criminality, and build a more caring world.