Working Papers Seminar Series 2024-2025
Jocelyn Olcott and Tania Rispoli
4 August 2024The working papers seminar will start its third year in September 2024 with generous support from a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) collaborative research grant.
Fall Semester 2024
Men, Masculinities, and Care (organized by Riikka Prattes)
Tuesday, September 10, 9-11am ET
Presenters
Obert Tawodzera (University of Birmingham), “Migrant Men in Care: Disrupting Traditional Narratives in the Global Care Economy”
Richard Gater (Cardiff University), “Marginalised Young Men and Masculinities”
Respondents
Niall Hanlon (Technological University Dublin) & Shaaista Moosa (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
Working with Time-Use Studies
Friday, September 27, 9-11 am ET
Presenters
Vijayamba R. (National Law School of India University, Bengaluru), Rosa Abraham (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru), Raghav Srinivasan (Azim Premji University, Bengaluru), “Women’s Time Use Between Paid and Unpaid Work in India”
Jheelum Sarkar (American University), “Climate Shocks and Women’s Time Poverty: A Case Study from India”
Dileni Gunewardena (University of Peradeniya) & Ashvin Perera (Verité Research), “Valuing Unpaid Care Work in Sri Lanka using the National Time Use Survey 2017: First Estimates”
Respondents
Nancy Folbre (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) & Pallavi Choudhuri (National Council of Applied Economic Research)
Technologies of Care
Friday, October 18, 12-2pm ET
Presenters
Fulden Arisan (University of Chicago), “Precarious Technocitizens: Global Infrastructures and Informal Networks of Cochlear Implant Care in Turkey”
Mercer Gary (Drexel University), “Bolstering the Value of Care Within and Against the Technological Imperative”
Respondents
Shelley Park (University of Central Florida)
Julia Ticona (Penn University)
Reproductive and Environmental Justice across the US-Mexico Border
Friday, November 1, 12-2pm ET
Presenters
Lara Islinger (University of Hamburg, Germany), “Feminist Abortion Accompaniment: An Emerging Model of Care in the U.S.”
Carolina Prado (San Francisco State University), “Fronteriza Care Work Epistemology and the Colectivo Salud y Justicia Ambiental in Tijuana, México”
Respondents
Naomi Braine (CUNY)
Michelle Téllez (University of Arizona)
Unpaid Care Labor
Wednesday, November 13, 10am-12pm ET
Presenters
Nomi Friedman-Sokule (Bar Ilan University), “Marginal Children: Child Support Guidelines and the (De)Value of Care”
Vanesa D’Alessandre & Florencia Caro Sachetti, “Investement in the Upbringing of Children and Adolescents: Making Visible the Link between Capabilities, Households, and Unpaid Work”
Respondents
Eileen Boris (UC Santa Barbara)
Pilar Gonalons-Pons (Penn University)
Measuring Care
Friday, December 6, 12-2pm ET
Presenters
Gabriela Elisa Morales (Scripps College), “Embodied Redistribution: State Care, Indigenous Medicine, and the Labor of Healing in Bolivia”
Adrianna Munson (University of Nevada) & Gullermina Altomonte (NYU), “Assessing Daily Life: Standardization and Discretion in Home Healthcare Evaluations”
Respondents
César Ernesto Abadía-Barrero (University of Connecticut)
Enrico Maria Piras (Fondazione Bruno Kessler; University of Verona)
Spring Semester 2025
Ecological Care
Friday, January 17, 10am-12pm ET
Presenters
Anna Rosińska (Joint Research Center) & Alberto Barausse (University of Padua), “Caring in and for the Venice Lagoon. Towards the Integration of the Care Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services Perspectives”
Noortje Keurhorst, University of Vigo (Universidade de Vigo), Tess Doezema, University of Vigo (Universidade de Vigo) & Elisa Schramm, University of Amsterdam (Universiteit van Amsterdam, UvA), “Destruction as Care: Imaginaries of More-Than-Human Flourishing in the Galician Monte“
Respondents
Diego Cidrás Fernández (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
Allison Williams (McMaster University)
Urban Care
Friday, January 31, 10am-12pm ET
Presenters
Deniz Ay (University of Bern), “Care-Full Municipalisms to Mitigate the Social Reproduction Crisis at the Urban Scale”
Elif Irem Az (Harvard University), “The Courage and the Scourge of Caring: Coal Miners’ Skills and Masculinities in Earthquake Search and Rescue”
Respondents
Emma Dowling (University of Vienna)
Kelly Dombroski (Massey University)
Environment, Labor, Transhuman
Friday, February 14, 12-2pm ET
Presenters
Emma Park (New School for Social Research), “World Ecology, Dispossession, and Care: Transhumant Livelihoods and the Structure of the Conjuncture in 19th c. Eastern Africa”
Olumayowa Anjolaoluwa Willoughby (Cornell University), “The Part Played by Labor in the Transition from Manumitted Ottoman Africans to Afro-Turks”
Respondents
Timucin Edman (Düzce Üniversitesi)
Diksha Arora (University of Utah)
Creating Common Care (Bilingual Seminar)
Friday, April 4, 10am-12pm ET
Presenters
Jazmin Goicochea Medina (Indipendent Scholar), “Tejiendo desbordes en la relación de las mujeres de los comedores populares de Lima con el Estado peruano”
Anaïs Roig (Université Paris Cité), “Es amor y es trabajo no pago”: el devenir profesión del cuidado comunitario de personas mayores en la economía popular (2019-2023 – Buenos Aires, Argentina).
Respondents
Betsy Olson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Karina Batthyany (CLACSO)