Having Children and Saving the World
Pro-natalists don’t seem to realize that “having” children requires both caring and paying for them.
Working with Time-Use Studies
Is time-use a measure for care or exploitation? Three working papers of emerging scholars from the United States, India, and Sri Lanka, will examine the trade-offs of time-use. Register for Friday, September 27, 9-11am ET.
Nancy Folbre: Seminar & Talk
Nancy Folbre will give a seminar on her manuscript-in-progress “Accounting for Care,” as well as public talk, entitled “Valuing Care: Time, Money, and Capabilities.” Both events will be in person at the Revaluing Care Lab at the FHI in Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106.
The Political Economy of Care
A graduate class taught by Jocelyn Olcott in the Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute on sustaining households, communities, and environments. Every Wednesday from 4:40 to 7:10 pm at the Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106.
Reading/Practice Group on “Hospicing Modernity”
Let’s get together to read and practice how we can interrupt the modern behavior patterns that are killing the planet! Co-promoted with the Franklin Humanities Institute.
Would Care Be a Gift?
Care as a gift places us all as caretakers *and* caregivers, in a reciprocity dynamic in which our autonomy is directly connected to the moments in which we were not and will not be autonomous. In this sense, care cannot be commodified nor mediated by the market as a mere product of capitalism.
Men, Masculinities, and Care
This seminar, organized by Riikka Prattes, focuses on the relationship between masculinities and care. Register for September 10 from 9 to 11 a.m. ET
Understanding the Care Economy
Why we need better data on the care economy, how we can get it, and what we could do with it.
Dreaming Big
A new year and a new grant has us imagining the next horizon for the Revaluing Care project.
Working Papers Seminar Series 2024-2025
The working papers seminar will start its third year in September 2024 with generous support from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) collaborative research grant.
The body-territory as politics of care. Exploring connections between popular struggles and diverse ontologies
This blog post aims to explore the connections between the reproductive commons and the processes of popular struggle that women, defending bodies and territories, undertake as practices, formulas and strategies for the care of life, based on relational ontologies.
“Histories and Futures of Care”. The Fourth Global Carework Summit
5-7 June 2025, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina