Upcoming Events
Cooperatives and Care
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Cooperatives and Care, exploring the social and cultural role of cooperative organizations in revaluing care and labor. Wednesday, November 5, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.
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.
Urban Care in Bogotá
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online bilingual seminar on Urban Care in Bogotá, exploring how the city’s Manzanas del Cuidado (Care Blocks) reshape local governance and the politics of care in Latin America. Wednesday, October 22, 2025 · 5:30–7:00 PM ET · Online
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 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.
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.
Kate Reed on Women Workers and Labor Rights
The Revaluing Care Lab at the FHI project invites you to the first lecture in the Visiting Lectures Series within the Women at Work class led by Dr. Tania Rispoli. This hybrid event will feature Kate Reed discussing women’s labor on Mexico’s southeastern railroads and their struggles for labor rights. Wednesday, February 19, 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM ET online.
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
“Histories and Futures of Care”. The Fourth Global Carework Summit
5-7 June 2025, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
“Historias y futuros del cuidado”. Cuarto Encuentro Global de Trabajo de Cuidado
Desde el 5 al 7 de junio, 2025. Universidad de Duke, Durham, Carolina del Norte