The Humanities Council’s Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities (IHUM) will support 11 reading groups in the 2026-27 academic year. Graduate students and faculty from across the humanities and humanistic social sciences are invited to explore shared interests—from public memory to magical realism—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 a dozen departments and programs – including Spanish and Portuguese, history of science, art and archaeology, anthropology, and religion – have initiated groups for the current academic year.
This year’s IHUM reading groups are:
- Air Power: Theories and Histories
- Asian American Studies
- Converging and Diverging: Recalibrating the Photographic
- Critical Archival Studies: Theory and Practice
- Embodied Encounters: Experiences of Illness, Healing, Personhood
- Erotics and Intimacies
- Proseminar in Obedience Studies
- Public Memory: Performance and Reenactment
- Science and Technology Studies: Knowledge and Power
- Space and Literature: Perspectives from Latin America
- The Many Lives of Magical Realism
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 2026-27 IHUM Reading Groups on the program’s website.
