Some book clubs and reading groups are offering students an escape from their dorms during winter. English Prof. William West leads a weekly reading group. West noted that while a traditional book ...

Formed in response to students’ desire for an intellectually stimulating space to probe texts in the humanities without the pressures of comparative metrics such as grades, the new Humanities Reading ...

This post was updated Nov. 17 at 8:52 p.m. With elves, giants and magic, the Medieval Texts Reading Group builds community one whimsical text at a time. Revived this quarter after a hiatus due to the ...

Keep up with everything happening in The Commons by signing up for our Philanthropy Today newsletter and joining our Commons LinkedIn group. Marcy Mager hadn’t expected the visceral response to the ...

Are you in a York book club? Did you know you can access sets of books through your local library? You do ...

The thought of the so-called Frankfurt School—of Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer and their colleagues—can be considered one of the most significant innovations in 20th-century philosophy. Concepts ...

This interdisciplinary reading group explores non-normative corpo-realities across disability, queerness, gender, and illness with a focus on voices from the Global South. Drawing on work from ...