In person event
Aula Verde – Tree Room: Art and Science for Climate Justice
As part of the series “Composting Theory: Ecological Care in Practice,” the Revaluing Care Lab at the FHI hosts “Aula Verde – Tree Room: Art and Science for Climate Justice,” a participatory workshop with artist and environmental engineer Andrea Conte exploring ecological art, forest science, and climate justice. Saturday, October 25, 2025 · 10:00 AM–12:00 PM ET · Duke Campus Farm.
Book Conversation with Jina B. Kim
Join us for a conversation with writer and scholar Jina Kim (Smith College) about her new book Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure in Crip-of-Color Writing (Duke University Press). Through this work, Kim reimagines care as a practice of survival, refusal, and collective world-building across disabled, queer, and racialized communities.
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.
Revaluing Care Lab · Fall 2025 Program
The Revaluing Care Lab presents its Fall 2025 programming across three strands: the Working Papers Seminar Series, Care Conversations, and Composting Theory. Together, these initiatives explore care through feminist theory, political economy, ecological practice, and collaborative scholarship.
Composting Theory · Ecological Care in Practice
A hands-on workshop series in collaboration with the Duke Campus Farm, “Composting Theory” explores ecological care through feminist and posthumanist readings, soil practices, and collective reflection. Sessions take place on select Saturday mornings—October 25 and November 15—at the Farm.
Care Conversation with Lina-María Murillo
Join us for a conversation between historians Lina-María Murillo and Sarah Deutsch. Drawing from her new book “Fighting for Control” (UNC Press), Murillo will explore the long arc of reproductive justice organizing in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands and the cross-border practices of care and resistance that continue to shape it.
Care Conversations Series · Fall 2025
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.
Caring Archives: Tift Merritt on Care and the Music Industry
The Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute invites you to an in-person talk by Tift Merritt on the intersections of care and the music industry in the era of digital streaming. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 19, from 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM ET, at the Revaluing Care Lab in Durham.
Women at Work
An undergraduate course taught by Tania Rispoli in the Revaluing Care Lab at the Franklin Humanities Institute on the gender, race, and class implications of work. February 19, March 19, March 26, and April 16 in the Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106 and online from 11:45 am to 1:00 pm.
Durba Mitra: Seminar & Talk
Feminist historian Durba Mitra will give a talk on “Protest as Care” and present during a seminar her manuscript in progress “The Future That Was: Feminist Thought in Decolonizing World”
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.