Seminars
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.
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
Informal Care in Southern Europe
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Informal Care in Southern Europe, examining how gendered dynamics and occupational impacts shape the challenges of informal care in the region. Monday, October 20, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.
Reproductive Justice and Economics
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Reproductive Justice and Economics, exploring how feminist economic frameworks can center reproductive justice as a core research paradigm. Wednesday, October 1, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM 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.
Gender-Equitable Growth
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an online seminar on Gender-Equitable Growth, examining how social reproduction shapes U.S. state-level economic outcomes. Wednesday, September 24, 2025 · 10:05–11:20 AM ET, online.
Women’s Work and Care in Argentina
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project opens its Fall 2025 Working Papers Seminar Series with an online seminar on women’s work and care in Argentina, exploring how labor and care have been reshaped in the neoliberal era. Wednesday, September 17, 2025 · 5:30–7:00 PM ET, online.
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.
Creating Common Care (Bilingual Seminar)
The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project invites you to a seminar on Creating Common Care, examining how community care structures intersect with labor, the state, and economic precarity in Latin America. The event will take place online on Friday, April 4, from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern Time.
Care in Gaza
Asmaa AbuMezied will present a paper on the destruction of care infrastructures in Gaza amid the ongoing genocide. The event will take place online on Friday, February 28, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM EST.
Environment, Labor, Transhuman
Join us on Friday, February 14, from 12 pm to 2 pm ET for a discussion on care, race and ecology.
Urban Care
Join us on Friday, January 31, from 10 am to 12 pm ET for a discussion on care, labor, and urban transformation