Type: Lab
The Revaluing Care Lab organized a series virtual public conversations focused on care in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Feminist Lessons on Vaccine Hesitancy
March 5, 2021
As governments across the globe have begun vaccinating in response to the current pandemic, waves of vaccine hesitancy and refusal have emerged, generating difficult questions about the nature of medical consent, histories of violence and mistrust, and the interlocking politics surrounding race, gender, disability, nation, and class that shapes patient interactions with state and health authorities.
This event brings together five experts from different perspectives to discuss these issues and to consider how a feminist approach to vaccine hesitancy can help us envision a more enduring solution to this crisis of care.
Participants
- Bernice Hausman, Chair, Department of Humanities, Professor, Humanities and Public Health Sciences, Penn State College of Medicine
- Elena Conis, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Journalism and Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society, University of California, Berkeley
- Yolonda Wilson, Associate Professor, Department of Health Care Ethics, Philosophy, and African American Studies, St. Louis University
- Travis Chi Wing Lau, Assistant Professor, English Department, Kenyon College
- Nichole Charles, Assistant Professor, Women and Gender Studies and Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga
Moderator: Farren Yero (Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University)
Queer Kinship and Care
April 23, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has put care on the agenda globally to a novel degree. This increased attention does not necessarily translate into more complex or nuanced understandings of what counts as care or how communities of care emerge. Instead, governmental interventions and media portrayals alike broadcast, reproduce, and amplify caring for "families," in "bubbles," and "pods" that evince cis/heteronormative notions of kinship and gender relations as undergirding proper care.
This event brings together experts who, from different angles, propose to queer understandings of care labor, care ethics, and kinship. We ask: what might be learned about care by expanding and exploding dominant notions of care to learn from resistant subjects and non-normative kinship relations?
Panelists
- Martin F. Manalansan IV, American Studies and Asian American Studies, University of Minnesota
- Shelley M. Park, Philosophy and Humanities & Cultural Studies, University of Central Florida
- Hil Malatino, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University
Moderators: Pedro Augusto Gravatá Nicoli (Law, Federal University of Minas Gerais) and Riikka Prattes (Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, Duke University)
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Post-Work Imaginaries
December 2, 2021
In a society that promotes relentless performance and at the same time undervalues "essential" labor, while imposing a 24/7 working time, we want to explore what are the alternatives. From self-design in the era of automation to UBI to the resistance of indigenous communities, we want to look for concrete utopias beyond or within work ethics and capitalism.
Speakers
- Heather Berg, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis
- Arturo Escobar, Professor of Anthropology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Helen Hester, Associate Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics at the University of West London
- Melanie Yazzie, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies & American Studies at the University of New Mexico.
Moderators: Jocelyn Olcott (History, Duke University) and Tania Rispoli (Romance Studies, Duke University)