The Viral Conjunctures collective actively seeks and invites inquiries and contributions from the public. We would be happy to host co-organized events at the CELCP (Centre de recherche d’études littéraires et culturelles sur la planétarité, Université de Montréal) or visit schools, colleges, kindergartens, community centers and libraries for readings or/and workshops free of charge (both in English and French).

Bringing together the fields of health humanities and the emerging area of planetary literary and cultural studies, our group studies pandemics and the planet as deeply interconnected phenomena through which we reflect on global systems of inequality, ecological vulnerability, and cultural transformation. We ask: How are pandemics experienced and narrated across different geopolitical and social contexts? And how do these narratives shape new understandings of us, the planet, and the latter’s conditions of habitability?

The Viral Conjunctures group is particularly interested in how creative media—flash fiction, poetry, video art, bioart, fiction, and film—develop new ways of sensing, imagining, and archiving the pandemic experience. These forms often challenge dominant narratives of global health and open up space for imagining what we call planetary health commons: shared visions of care, justice, and environmental belonging.