encourage crossdisciplinary collaboration among graduate students through organized readings, screenings, dissertation working groups, or other activities.
TheRace/Knowledge Project is dedicated to interrogating the contemporary status of race within what is increasingly understood as the global university and its intricate connections to our local communities.
Alongside the Simpson Center’s Certificate in Public Scholarship (CPS) program, this graduate interest group aims to strengthen networks of collaboration amongst CPS fellows and among public scholars more broadly, while providing a venue to develop collective research questions.
At this intersection of the political with the popular, Performing the Gap fosters a critical examination of performance as a site for conceptualizing contemporary cultural practices, modernity, citizenship, and democracy.
TheMedieval Studies Graduate Interest Group aims to bring together medieval scholars from a wide variety of departments on campus to foster collaboration between disciplines on topics concerning the middle ages. The group is open to graduate students, faculty, staff, undergraduates and community members interested in the Middle Ages.
Queer Pedagogical Performance is a graduate student interest group that will explore the possibilities of queer pedagogy across disciplines and academic sites.
This year, AASRC investigates "Asian Diasporas: Experiences, Histories, and Memories," as well as the theoretical and methodological work of community-academic collaborations.
