In her 2020 article entitled “Communities of care,” Talia Schaffer reminds readers that even when participants “did not share a geographic space,” the communities of those “virtual groups…cobbled together in coronavirus time” were, to all of us, of invaluable importance and “realness,” nevertheless. Thus, this roundtable hopes to promote conversation(s) that showcase and contemplate ways of enduringly enriching both virtual and in-person academic communities, especially amongst graduate students; to continually encourage communications and collaborations between students with related research interests within the same, as well as different, institutional settings.

Possible topics for discussion might be related to:

-Exemplary collaborations between graduate students (and/or other individuals) within either the same or different institutional settings (co-authored articles, digital projects, co-organized conferences, etc.)

-Digital communities for scholars; forums for graduate student news circulation

-Assistive tools and digital technologies helpful to collaborative writing and other research endeavors

-Practices of peer-reviewing writing; helpful models for sharing (articulating) research ideas

-Reading groups and recommended readings

This roundtable session hopes to promote conversation(s) that showcase and contemplate ways of enduringly enriching both virtual and in-person academic communities, especially amongst graduate students; to continually cultivate communications and collaborations among scholars.

Proposals for presentations related to this prompt should be 250-300 words, and will be very much appreciated. For inquiries, please feel free to write to gsc@nemla.org or alyssaco51@gmail.com.

For more information or submit an abstract, please kindly visit:https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/21308.