Caring Masculinities

September 15, 12-2pm ET

Presenters

Tracie Canada (Duke University), “I do it for Them: Bonds of Brotherhood”

Antonia Randolph (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “I Carry the City on my Back”. 

Respondents

Jordanna Matlon (American University)

Maurice Wallace (Rutgers University)

Migrant Domestic Workers

October 27, 12-2pm ET

Presenters

Valerie Francisco-Menchavez (San Francisco State University), “Caring for Caregivers: Filipina/o Migrant Care Workers Building Communities of Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Grazielle Valentim (University of Massachusetts Amherst), “Caring for Caregivers: Filipina/o Migrant Care Workers Building Communities of Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic”

Respondents

Anju Paul (New York University Abu Dhabi)

Pallavi Banerjee (University of Calgary)

Carcerality & Care

November 17, 12-2pm ET

Presenters

Joseph Hiller (Duke University), “Entre Las Chicas: Care, Abandonment, and Insistence in Colombian Prison Worlds”

Katie Von Wald (University of California Santa Barbara), “Reproductive Carcerality: Territorializing Confinement and the Politics of Abolitionist Abortion Care”

Respondents

Micol Seigel (Indiana University Bloomington)

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Queering Care

December 1, 10am-12pm ET

Presenters

Nora Kassner (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) “Becoming Daddy: How Carework Created Political Change in the Era of AIDS”

Tankut (Renssealaer Polytechnic Institute), “Promiscuous and Anti-prophylactic Ethics of Care Among HIV+ Gay and Trans Activists in Turkey”

Edward Nadurata (University of California Irvine), “Beyond Abandonment in Dory: Rethinking Queer Aging and Community Care in the Life of a 101-Year-Old Trans Woman”

Respondents

Pedro Nicoli (The Federal University of Minas Gerais)

Pete Sigal (Duke University)

Alternative Care Networks

January 26, 12-2 pm ET

Presenters

Jieun Cho (Duke University), “Nurturing Uncertainty: Toxic Ecologies, Children’s Health, and Voluntary Care Work in Post-3.11 Japan”

Elizabeth Olson & Leiha Edmonds (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Caregiving Youth: Understanding the Identities and Everyday Spaces of Young People Who are Family Caregivers in the U.S”

Respondents

Tatjana Thelen (Wien Universität)

Kim England (University of Washington)

Race, Health & Disability

February 23, 12-2 pm ET

Presenters

Jasper Conner, “The Changing Face of Professional Care Work for Disabled African Americans from Reconstruction through Desegregation”

André Marega Pinhel, “Communities of Care and Racial Inequities: The Relationship between Pressure Groups and State Action in the Design of Racially Focused Health Policies”

Respondents

Mairead Sullivan (Loyola Marymount University)

LaTonya Trotter (University of Washington)

Community Economies

April 18, 6-7.30 pm ET

April 19, 10-11-30 am ET

Presenters

Alioscia Castronovo (National University of Colombia and CLACSO), “‘Taking Care of our Territories’: Self-organization, Community Care and Popular Infrastructures in Bogotá

Lina Penati Ferreira (University of São Paulo), “Pandemic, Solidarity, and Community Care in Brazil”

Respondents

Kelly Dombroski (Massey University)

AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield)

Women’s Collectives

May 3, 12-2 pm ET

Presenters

Natalia Hernandez Fajardo (Colombia, Independent researcher and feminist activist), “Cuerpo-territorio y formas de cuidado en la experiencia de mujeres migrantes de la comunidad Emberá Katio en Bogotá”

Eva María Villanueva Gutiérrez (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), “Prácticas de cuidados comunitarios orientados a la alimentación en la Ciudad de México durante la pandemia”

Respondents

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Holly Worthen (Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca)

If you are interested in joining the seminars, write to tania.rispoli@duke.edu