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Reading groups connect the community layer with NEXUS articles and Resource Hub materials.

Reading Groups

Themes become communities.

Reading groups and meetings are one of the main ways STS-IN members engage each other and build a shared intellectual rhythm around significant writing in the field.

Monthly reading

A recurring format that connects people, texts, and shared resource material.

Syllabus building

A recurring format that connects people, texts, and shared resource material.

Public dialogue

A recurring format that connects people, texts, and shared resource material.

Resource contribution

A recurring format that connects people, texts, and shared resource material.

Founding structure

The four thematic groups that launched the format.

At the inaugural STS India Network workshop in December 2023, the network identified four themes to kick off reading groups in 2024. The groups remain open, evolving spaces for reading, discussion, and collective thinking.

History of Science and TechnologyFeminist STSDigital STSEnvironmental STS

These meetings are open to all, readings are identified by the groups themselves, and the format has been running on a fortnightly cycle across the four themes.

The structure is meant to keep evolving. The network uses these spaces to identify material to read, discuss, and think with in common, while also feeding later writing and resource-building.

Coordination

Overall coordination

Janaki Srinivasan and Usha Raman

History of Science and Technology

Madhulika Banerjee, Abhinav Tyagi, and Aditi Dey

Feminist STS

Aswathy Raveendran and Santosh Kumar

Environmental STS

Ravi Bhushan, Anita Pinheiro, and Prathamesh Antarkar

Digital STS

Parikshith Shashikumar and Arjun Ghosh