Between March and May 2023, we – Mona Baie, Swati Joshi, and Annabelle Olsson – organised a three-part online reading group entitled “The Future(s) of Medical Humanities” as part of the Ends of Knowledge network. The aim was to offer a space for early career researchers in particular to reflect together on the past, present, and futures of our field…

To emphasize the importance of Abigail Boggs and Nick Mitchell’s work, it is perhaps worth beginning at the end of their paper. There, they make a compelling claim, one which I want to cement as a defamiliarizing strategy for future group-work…

For a long time, I’ve been interested in how the reading group acts as both a gathering for knowledge (and knowledge’s “producers”) but also, significantly, a location of respite within humanities…