A Roundtable in Celebration of Emily Lim Rogers’ Sick Work: Care Beyond the Family

A Roundtable in Celebration of Emily Lim Rogers' Sick Work: Care Beyond the Family

Friday, November 13 New time: 10:00 - 11:00AM Friedl 216

In Sick Work (Duke University Press, Sept 2026), Emily Lim Rogers examines the everyday labor it takes to be chronically ill via an ethnographic and historical investigation of chronic fatigue syndrome. On the occasion of its publication, this roundtable features two short talks followed by a discussion, highlighting the overlaps between disability, chronic illness, kin, and care.

Zoe Wool will discuss her work on "significant otherness"-the relations of the nuclear family, and how it shows up as a US military investment in spouses as the solution to the problem of military violence that marks war veterans and renders other relations "insignificant." Anne Allison will discuss the phenomenon of kin substitution in Japan, exemplified by the rising category of "people without anyone else" and the emerging market of "rental moms" and "rental dads."

Light breakfast served.