Seminars

Healing Care

Jocelyn Olcott and Tania Rispoli
19 March 2026

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

In person event Seminars Upcoming Events Cultural care Disability ethics Race

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Women’s Collectives / Colectivos femeninos, May 3, 12-2 pm ET

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Eighth Working Papers Seminar Series 2023-2024 Communities of Care featuring Natalia Hernandez Fajardo and Eva María Villanueva Gutiérrez , with commentaries by C. Cielo and Holly Worthen

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Working Papers Series 2022-2023

Jocelyn Olcott and Tania Rispoli
24 July 2023

September 16, 2022. 11 am First seminar of the working papers series featuring Samia Akther-Kahn & André Pinhel.Commentaries by Anne Allison & Deborah Jenson Samia Akhter-Kahn, “Unpaid productive activities and loneliness in later life: Results from the Indonesian Family Life Survey (2000-2014)” André Pinhel, “Racial Classification Categories and Health Inequities Studies in Brazil and USA” […]

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Working Papers Series 2021-2022

Tania Rispoli
14 December 2022

First experiment of sharing research. One or two presenters share original unpublished papers beforehand and two specialized commenters offer insights and reflections. Working papers series are open to the general public upon signing up

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