The Research Group
Viral Conjunctures
Founded in 2024, "Viral Conjunctures" is an open, interuniversity, and multidisciplinary research group based at the Université de Montréal. Consisting of established and emerging scholars, students, writers, and practitioners from Québec, Canada, and Europe, the group discusses the intersecting representations of pandemic narratives in literary and non-literary texts, art, film, poetry, and drama. Working in the context of the emerging Planetary Health Humanities, we examine how narrative, visual, and lyrical engagements with communicative diseases and the planet's anthropogenic and volatile transformations shape contemporary debates of human and nonhuman health, planetary wellbeing, and health policy frameworks.
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We examine how pandemic and viral narratives, histories, epistemologies, geopolitics, and aesthetics offer pluriversal planetary health imaginaries that help articulate decolonial health policy frameworks and pedagogies.
Public Outreach
We invite interested scholars, teachers, students, community groups, and anyone interested in pandemic narratives to contact us and develop collaborative workshops, roundtables, and other events of shared interest.
Viral Books
Our interdisciplinary reading club brings together graduate students, faculty, and community members to explore key texts in pandemic studies, health humanities, and ecologies of contagion.