Fern Reads Country of Poxes: A Roundtable with Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay

Critical conversation for critical readers in community.

Join Fernwood Publishing and Baj Mukhopadhyay for a radical roundtable discussion of his book, Country of Poxes: Three Germs and the Taking of Territory (Fernwood Publishing, 2022).

Serious and relaxed, intimate and thoughtful, Fern Reads is Fernwood's latest series for all your book-clubbing needs. Fern Reads hopes to create unintimidating intellectual space. We hope to have fun and challenge ourselves while still maintaining a grounded and generative space. All you need to do is show up!

The expectation is to come together to talk about a book everyone has read, at least in part or mostly.

This roundtable discussions will be hosted via Zoom and begin at 7:00 pm EST. It will last for approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Read more about the book here: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/country-of-poxes

Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay is a Bengali settler living in Tio’tia:ke for over two decades. A family doctor who serves primarily in Eeyou Istchee, Baijayanta also works in Treaty 3 and 9 territories, as well as with undocumented migrants, unhoused people and queer/trans youth in the city. He is clinical faculty at the McGill Department of Family Medicine, focusing on supporting rural/low-resource practice. Mukhopadhyay also organises around issues related to extractivism, migrant rights, policing, public services and decolonizing global health within local and international networks and collectives. His previous works include A Labour of Liberation and essays in Briarpatch Magazine, Sarai Reader and Upping the Anti.