The BABEL Working Group, founded in 2004, is a collective and desiring-assemblage of scholar-itinerants in North America, the UK, Australia and beyond who are working to develop new co-disciplinary, nomadic, and convivial confraternities among the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and the fine arts in order to formulate and practice new critical humanisms and post-humanisms. It is our aim to create a more present-minded premodern studies and a more historically-minded cultural studies, and to also build temporary shelters for intellectual vagabonds.