Events

Seminars

Infrastructures of Wellbeing

25 February 2026

Another webinar! Join us to learn about the link between geography, gender, and subjective well-being in Italy through research by Erica Aloè (Sapienza University of Rome), Roberta Di Stefano (Sapienza University of Rome), Marina Zannella (ISTAT), and Alessandra De Rose (Sapienza University of Rome).

🗓️ Friday, March 27, 2026
⏰12:00-1:15PM (EDT)
📍Online
🎫Registration free but required

Women at Work

25 February 2026

Join us for our upcoming Working Paper Seminar with Viviana Valle Gomez (UCSB). By bringing ‘anarchowhore epistemologies’ to the forefront of feminist and labor studies, we explore will explore the inherently caring, anti-state, and world-making practices of sex workers.

🗓️ Thursday, March 26, 2026
⏰11:45AM-1:15PM (EDT)
📍Online
🎫Registration free but required

Care, Radically

31 January 2026

Join us for a work-in-progress presentation by Jessie Wilkerson (University of Tennessee), examining how networks of care emerge within labor conflict in Industrial Appalachia. Drawing on labor history and archival research, Care, Radically traces care as a collective and conflictual practice.

📅 Monday, February 19, 2026
⏰ 5:00-6:30PM
📍 Smith Warehouse, Bay 4, C106
🍽️ Light dinner offered
🎫Registration free but required

Fragile Care

12 January 2026

The Revaluing Care in the Global Economy project hosts an in-person Working Papers Seminar on Fragile Care, bringing together research on care at its most vulnerable edges—from maternal labor under conditions of health crisis to the emergent norms shaping human–machine relations. Through feminist theory, science and technology studies, and political economy, the seminar examines how care is redefined across social and technological infrastructures. Friday, February 6, 2026 · 12:00–1:30 PM ET, in person.

Cooperatives and Care

28 October 2025

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.

Informal Care in Southern Europe

2 October 2025

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.

Care In Practice

Breakdown: Thinking and Making Compost Together

17 February 2026

This session centers compost as both material process and theoretical problem, exploring decay, waste, labor, and transformation through collective compost-making and discussion.

🗓️ Saturday, March 28, 2026
🕙10:00AM-12:00PM
📍 Duke Campus Farm
🥞 Light breakfast included
🎫 Registration is free but required

Everyday Ecologies: Working with Soil Time

17 February 2026

Focusing on soil as a living archive, this workshop reflects on questions of time and maintenance through hands-on soil work. 

🗓️ Saturday, April 25, 2026
🕙10:00AM-12:00PM
📍 Duke Campus Farm
🥞 Light breakfast included
🎫 Registration is free but required

Talks

Gender History in the Time of Gender Ideology

17 February 2026

We invite you to the annual Anne Firor Scott Lecture in Women’s and Gender History!

📅 Thursday, March 19, 2026
⏰ 5:00-6:30PM
📍 Pink Parlor, East Duke Building
🍽️ Light dinner offered
🎫 Registration free but required

Conferences

Visualizing Care  Imaginaries & Infrastructures 2022

14 December 2022

Transnational Conference on May 12, 13, 14, 2022 on QiQoChat