Working Groups

The UIC Institute for the Humanities encourages interdisciplinary research and intellectual exchange by sponsoring a variety of faculty working groups each year. The format for working groups is flexible and is determined by the faculty coordinators who must represent at least two departments. The Institute supports working groups by circulating materials, funding outside speakers, publicizing events, and providing modest refreshments for meeting and lectures.

  • Anthropocene Lab Reading Group

    Anthropocene Lab Reading Group offers a cross-disciplinary platform for faculty and students interested in social movements, biodiversity, ecological activism, human rights, cultural heritage, environmental justice, and public humanities. It responds to a desire for engagement and collaboration with local communities in the global contexts of development.

  • Dissertation Writing

    The Interdisciplinary Dissertation Writing Seminar is open to ALL students and faculty, and we are eager to hear from all graduate students in the humanities who are at a point in their writing when a congenial audience of fellow scholars would be helpful in the writing process.

  • Feminist Disability Studies

    The Feminist Disability Studies Working Group cultivates and reads works related to feminist disability studies and explores anti-ableist ways to engage in the academy. The group nurtures its members work and offers support as we navigate publications, teachings, tenure & promotion, and dissertation writings. It strives to offer a caring space to disabled scholars (faculty and students).

  • Queer and Trans Studies

    Queer and Trans Studies engages transnational and diasporic analyses of gender, sexuality, queer of color critique, trans studies, queer liberation activism and abolition, race, disability, and their multiple intersections.

  • Radical Theory and Revolutions

    Radical Theory and Revolutions – The Radical Theory and Revolutions working group aims at creating an interdisciplinary space for UIC faculty and students interested in connecting radical theory–particularly genealogical, critical and decolonial perspectives of political and social theory—and revolution. We hope to explore radical understandings of political and social theory, and study revolutions in history into the present.

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