Working Groups

Each academic year, the JHI sponsors interdisciplinary Working Groups composed of graduate students and faculty who conduct research or engage in other scholarly exchange. To learn more about each group, click on the title of the group. To request to join a group, email the group lead linked in the list. You can also find out about groups from previous years on the Working Groups Archives page.

Current Working Groups

The groups and leads for 2024-25 are:

Asexuality and Aromanticism Studies (new)

Classics and the Black Atlantic (new)

Emerging Interventions in Contemporary Chinese Studies (renewal)

Figural Analysis (new)

Hong Kong-Canada Connections (new)

Medieval World Drama (renewal)

Public Writing in the Humanities (renewal)

Scribbling Academia: Comic Art and Theory (new)

Theories and Praxis of Digital Labour: The Fault Lines in Digital Capitalism (new)

  • Julie Chen, UTM Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology

The Looting Lab (new)

The Other Sister: New Research on Non-Cloistered Religious Women (renewal)

Theorizing Scholar-Activism and the Global Food Sovereignty Movement (renewal)