Working Groups

The Consortium invites scholars to join our topical working groups for challenging and collegial discussion of interesting publications in their fields and of each others’ works-in-progress.

Each group meets monthly. All interested scholars are welcome to participate via online video conferencing.

To join a group:

  1. Log in, or create an account
  2. Click on a group below
  3. Click on the "Request Membership" link
Submit a discussion paper for one of the working groups.

Upcoming Meetings

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Tuesday, August 4, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT

Saurav Kumar Rai, "Literary Depictions of Contagion in Colonial North India."

Thursday, August 13, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT

Edward Akintola Hubbard (darkmatter collective): Vegetal Frequencies

Tuesday, September 1, 2026, 9:00 - 10:30 am EDT

*NOTE SPECIAL TIME*

Thursday, September 10, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT

Luc Wodzicki (Freie University Berlin): tbc

Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST

Dilip K Das, "Narrating Spaces of Contagion."

Tuesday, January 5, 2027, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST

Sathyaraj Venkatesan, "Unequal Burdens: COVID-19, BIPOC Communities, and Graphic Medical Narratives."