Fall Semester 2025

Women’s Work and the Social Organization of Care in Argentina

Wednesday, September 17, 5:30–7:00 pm ET – Online

Presenter
Mariana Brocca (Universidad de Buenos Aires),
“Back to the Future? Women’s Work and Social Organization of Care in Argentina’s ‘New’ Neoliberalism Era”

Respondent
Elisabeth Jay Friedman (University of San Francisco)

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Social Reproduction and Gender-Equitable Growth

Wednesday, September 24, 10:05–11:20 am ET – Online

Presenter
Aashima Sinha (Levy Economics Institute),
“The Road to Gender-Equitable Growth: A State-level Analysis of Social Reproduction in the U.S.”

Respondent
Elissa Braunstein (Colorado State University)

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Reproductive Justice as Economic Practice

Wednesday, October 1, 10:05–11:20 am ET – Online

Presenter
Deb Machado Nunes (Monmouth University),
“Building Reproductive Justice as a Research Program in Economics”

Respondent
Nancy Folbre (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

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Informal Care, Gender, and Precarity in Southern Europe

Monday, October 20, 10:05–11:20 am ET – Online

Presenter
Melanie Sara Palermo (University of Macerata),
“Revaluing Care in Southern Europe: Gendered Dynamics and the Challenges of Informal Care on Occupation”

Respondent
Cindy L. Cain (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

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Cooperatives, Care, and Collective Social Organization

Wednesday, November 5, 10:05–11:20 am ET – Online

Presenters
Cecilia Cornaggia (Catholic University, Milan)
Chiara Ferrari (Catholic University, Milan)
Eliana Debia (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
“The Social and Cultural Role of Cooperative Organizations: Reflections from the Thought of Martha Beatrice Webb”

Respondent
Giandomenica Becchio (University of Turin)

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Chapter in Progress: Black Women, Violence, and Urban Decline

Presenter
Terrion Williamson, pre-circulated chapter workshop on the book in progress
The Unreckoned: Black Women, Serial Murder, and the Decline of the All-American City

Led by
Jennifer C. Nash

Co-sponsored by
FHI, GSF

Thursday, November 6, 12:00–1:30 pm ET – In person,
Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Smith Warehouse (Duke Map)

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Data, Value, and the Making of Care Work

Wednesday, November 12, 4:45–6:15 pm ET – Online

Presenter
Julia Kowalski (University of Notre Dame),
“‘The Power of Data’: Value and Quantification in Producing Care Work as a Policy Object”

Respondent
Durba Mitra (Harvard University)

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Spring Semester 2026

Fragile Care

Friday, February 6, 12:00–1:30 pm ET – In person

Presenters
Eliza Williamson (Duke University),
“Debilitating Care: Mothers na correria in the Wake of Zika”

Shaun Respess (North Carolina State University),
“The Emergent Normativity of Carebots: Evaluating the Proficiencies of Embodied Artificial Intelligence”

Respondent
Emily Rogers (Duke University)

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Care, Radically

Tuesday, February 16, 5:00 pm ET – In person

Presenter
Jessie Wilkerson (University of Tennessee),
“Care, Radically: Labor Conflict and Networks of Care in Industrial Appalachia”

Respondent
Anne Whisnant (Duke University)

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Care After Work

Thursday, March 26, 11:45 am-1:00 pm ET – Online

Presenter
Viviana Valle Gomez (UCSB),
“The End of Sex Worker Legibility in State Structures: Rejection of Work and the Possibilities of Care”

Respondent
Kathi Weeks (Duke University)

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Infrastructures of Wellbeing

Friday, March 27, 12:00–1:15 pm ET – Online

Presenter

Erica Aloe;
Roberta Di Stefano;
Marina Zannella;
Alessandra De Rose (ISTAT),
“Depopulation of Disadvantaged and Rural Areas and the Subjective Well-Being of Commuters”

Respondent
Wendy Harcourt (Erasmus University)

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Healing Touch

Friday, April 3, 12:00–1:30 pm ET – In person

Presenter
Sumathi Ramaswamy (Duke University),
“Touching Care: Gandhi and the Art of Healing the Leprous Body”

Respondent
TBC

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Cuidado Comunitario

Wednesday, April 8, 1:25–2:40 pm ET – Online
Bilingual Session

Presenter
Marcia Moreno Benítez,
“Community Care as a Counterpart to Gender Violence: The Case of the Mujeres Sanadoras Collective in Los Castillos, León, Guanajuato, Mexico”

Respondent
TBC

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Ancestral Care

Friday, April 17, 12:00–2:00 pm ET – Online

Presenters
Evan Auguste and Nadège Robertson,
“Sék Lakou Tanama: Rethreading Haitian Futures Through Tradition”

Respondent
Deborah Jenson

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Care and Territory

Friday, April 24, 12:00–2:00 pm ET – Online
Bilingual Session

Presenters
Nirieth Jhoely Castelblanco Torres

Norma Georgina Gutiérrez Serrano

Paris Olalde Estrada

“Cuidar la revolución para verla florecer: Los conocimientos-prácticas de las mujeres anarcomagonistas como una política en femenino”

Amada Aurora Vollbert Romero,
“Reminiscencias de la vida lacustre: alimentar el territorio de la montaña al lago”

Respondent
Holly Worthen