The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities has released its Reading Groups for 2011-2012, and there are a lot that might be of interest to our department, including some that have been organized by our grad students (!!!).
Some of these include:
Digital Literacies
Energy Policy in Illinois
Global Health Interest Group (organized by our very own Steph Rieder)
Labor and Working Class History
Mass Incarceration (with an assist from Sheri-Lynn Kurisu)
Medicine / Science (very topical, given our search)
Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow (another assist from Sheri-Lynn)
The Sociology Department prides itself on its interdisciplinary collaborations in the humanities and social sciences, and the IPRH is a great institution at the University of Illinois that supports those kinds of collaborations.
We look forward to hearing about these groups over the course of the year.
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