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We bring researchers together across the natural sciences, mathematics, and the humanities to pursue careful questions, share methods, and build lasting scholarly communities.
The Society for Interdisciplinary Inquiry is an independent scholarly community devoted to rigorous research, generous exchange, and the public life of ideas.
Our members work across institutions, career stages, and fields. The Society provides a durable home for research that benefits from both disciplinary depth and conversation across boundaries. We convene seminars and workshops, support collaborative projects, and develop publications that make specialist work accessible without diminishing its precision.
We welcome researchers, students, practitioners, and independent scholars who share our commitments to intellectual seriousness, respectful disagreement, transparent methods, and responsible stewardship of knowledge.
Research groups are the Society's working core. Each group sets its own programme of reading, discussion, collaboration, and public presentation, while participating in the Society's wider interdisciplinary calendar.
The chemistry of life's most familiar—and least simple—medium.
This group studies water as solvent, reactant, structural organizer, and biological environment. Its programme spans hydration and macromolecular structure, aqueous interfaces, proton transfer, cellular water, and the experimental and computational methods used to investigate them.
Structure, comparison, and the mathematics of relation.
This group explores ordered sets, lattice theory, order-preserving maps, representation, and related algebraic and combinatorial structures. It welcomes work connecting order theory with logic, topology, computer science, optimization, and the foundations of mathematics.
How ideas, instruments, and institutions shape what can be known.
This group investigates philosophy and science in their historical settings: the movement of concepts across periods and cultures, the development of disciplines, the place of instruments and evidence, and the institutions through which knowledge is produced, contested, and preserved.
Regular group meetings for works in progress, close readings, methods, and invited talks.
Member-led studies, bibliographies, workshops, and cross-group questions developed over time.
Lectures, essays, and resources that connect careful research with wider intellectual life.
A peer-reviewed home for original research, review essays, translations, research notes, and constructive exchange across the Society's fields.
Editorial scope, submission guidance, review standards, publication ethics, and the inaugural call for papers will be announced here. The journal will combine specialist standards with an editorial preference for work that explains its significance beyond a single subfield.
Journal website forthcoming
A public conversation among the convenors of the Society's three founding research groups.
The first in a recurring series on water's structural and kinetic roles in biochemical systems.
Short talks and problem sessions connecting classical lattice theory with current applications.
FOUNDING UPDATE · DATE TBA
Initial programmes will bring together work in biochemistry, mathematics, and intellectual history.
JOURNAL · DATE TBA
The founding editorial framework will address scope, peer review, ethics, and open scholarly exchange.
MEMBERSHIP · DATE TBA
Prospective members may register interest in a research group or the Society's wider programme.
Membership will be open to established and emerging researchers, graduate students, practitioners, and independent scholars. Members may affiliate with one or more research groups, propose activities, attend Society events, and contribute to its publications and public programme.
Membership categories, fees, governance arrangements, and an expression-of-interest form will be published following the Society's founding meeting.