Four of us academics started meeting monthly to discuss our work-in-progress, but it's become clear that we're all at very different career stages and the power dynamics are making it impossible for the junior people to really engage authentically. The senior people dominate without realizing it, and the rest of us have started performing rather than thinking.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group designed for mutual learning has reproduced the very power structures it was meant to circumvent.
“Where Are You with The examined intellectual life?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.