The Humanities Council’s Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM) will support 15 reading groups in the academic year 2025-26. Graduate students and faculty from across the humanities and humanistic social sciences are invited to explore shared interests—from archival theory to science and technology studies—by joining a yearlong reading group.
Convened around a wide range of multidisciplinary topics, these groups provide participants with opportunities for deeper engagement with texts and each other. Graduate students from more than a dozen departments and programs – including Spanish and Portuguese, gender and sexuality studies, art and archaeology, anthropology, and religion – have initiated groups for the current academic year.
This year’s IHUM reading groups include:
- Archival Theory: Abundance and Silences
- Asian American Studies
- Concepts of Home
- Converging and Diverging: Recalibrating the Photographic
- Crip Intersections
- Decentering Feminist Studies
- Decoloniality, Race, and Historical Memory
- Elementals
- Frontiers, Borderlands, and Extractive Zones: Other American Wests
- Global Colonial Law
- Languages of “Bodies” between the Human and the Automaton
- Musics and Literatures: Global Perspectives
- Narrative in and of the Law
- Rogue Sovereigns
- Science and Technology Studies: Counting Bodies
Interested students should contact the organizers to register. Details about meetings and membership are available on each group’s page.
Explore the full list of 2025-26 IHUM Reading Groups on the program’s website.
