Like krill, CRiL sustains an ecosystem, moving together across the Pacific, from China to the world.
The China Reading & innovation Lab (CRiL) is a graduate student-led initiative based at Columbia University in the City of New York. We convene scholars working on transnational sociological studies in science and technology, with a particular focus on medicine in China.
CRiL cultivates a community that exchanges academic ideas and turns them into public value. We bring early-career scholars together through paper workshops, reading groups, book talks and discussions, methods/fieldwork sharing, and community gatherings.
CRiL keeps one name while moving through different institutional waters: a workshop in the Department of Sociology, a student group at Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Center for Science and Society, and a student organization within the Arts and Sciences Graduate Council.
Looking ahead, CRiL aims to evolve into THRiL—“Transnational Heuristic Reading & innovation Lab”: a cross-border hub for reading, sharing, learning, healing, and innovating.
CRiL gathers the world at Columbia, and sends Columbia to the world.