Working Groups
Active Groups
The Consortium invites scholars to join our topical working groups for challenging and collegial discussion of interesting publications in their fields and of each others’ works-in-progress.
We are accepting applications for new working groups for 2021. In response to multiple requests, the deadline has been extended to November 30, 2020.
Each group meets monthly. All interested scholars are welcome to participate via online video conferencing.
Upcoming Meetings
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Session 3: "Race, slavery, ethnography"
This session considers two very different texts—one ethnographic, one historical—that consider racism, race science, and slavery as central structures of "enlightened" industrial modernity:
Syllabus Workshop with Science beyond the West (Department of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania)
Errors, Ethics, and Professional Status from the Middle Ages to Modern
Medicine
AAHM Ann Arbor 2.0, 2020 Conference Panel 5
Walton Schalick, III, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Errare humanum est:” Medical Errors in the Middle Ages
Fedir Razumenko, University of Calgary
Bridging Clinical Investigation with Ethical Regulation: Four Pioneering Gynecologic Cancer Trials in Canada, 1974-1984
Arnaud Zimmern will present his WIP titled "Bacon on Boldness, or How to Promise the Prolongation of Life."
You can find the paper abstract below, and the pre-circulated will be available in the same place closer to the event. The session will take place over Zoom, which you can access on the date through the link on this page.
If you have any questions leading up to the event, please do not hesitate to reach out to either coordinator.
Megan Piorko mpiorko1@student.gsu.edu
Epstein, The Ant Trap
Ch. 10-12 (Ch. 13 optional)
Reproduction and Representation: Visualizing the Maternal Body, 1880–1900
By: Jessica M. Dandona
- Time Buddy
- Presenter: Dominik Wujastyk, University of Alberta
- Topic: Readings from the anatomy of Caraka: Carakasaṃhitā, Śārīrasthāna 1
- Bibliography
We invite doctoral students to join us for a Lightning Round on December 17. See flyer below for more details.
Invitamos a estudiantes de doctorado a nuestra sesión de diciembre 17 en la que tendremos un Lightning Round. Para más información ver el cartel acá abajo.
Session 4: "Antiblackness and indigeneity"
Main readings:
- Time-Buddy
- Presenter: Dominik Wujastyk, University of Alberta
- Topic: Readings from Sanskrit alchemical literature. The Rasendramaṅgala of Nāgārjuna Siddha
- Bibliography
Discussion: Bian He's Know Your Remedies and Harun Kuçuk's Science without Leisure
Emily Hutcheson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Making Mutually Beneficial Ties: Anna Weber-van Bosse, Symbiosis and the Beginnings of the Self-organized Algological Network, 1880-1904"
Session 5: "Racism in science"
Main readings:
- Time-Buddy
- Presenter: Dominik Wujastyk, University of Alberta
- Topic: Early Modern Eristic: Readings from the medical polemic Rogārogavāda by Vīreśvara
- Bibliography
Leonelli, Data-Centric Biology
TBA, selections
Workshop: Noa Nahmias (York University)
Katharina Steiner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, chapter from her book manuscript Visualizing Marine Biology: Wilhelm Giesbrecht and the Naples Zoological Stations 1880-1913
Johan Gärdebo, Thematic Studies in Environmental Change, Linköping University. "Following the verbs: How 'Observing the Earth' eventually became the Earth observation satellite SPOT, 1975-1995."
Session 6: "Policing in applied/public anthropology"
Main Readings
Leonelli, Data-Centric Biology
TBA, selections
- Time-Buddy.
- Presenter: Dagmar Wujastyk, University of Alberta
- Topic: Readings from the Kalyāṇakāraka of Ugrāditya (fl. ca. 800 CE), a Jain work on medicine and alchemy.
- Bibliography
Samm Newton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Pteropods Realized: From Bio-indication to Bio-inspiration"
Discussion
Elise Burton, Genetic Crossroads: The Middle East and the Science of Human Heredity (Stanford University Press, 2021)
Elena Aronova, Scientific History: Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War (Chicago University Press, 2021)
Session 7: "Visualization"
Main Readings
Leonelli, Data-Centric Biology
TBA, selections
- Time-buddy
- Presenter: Andrey Klebanov
- Topic: Readings from the anonymous *Suśrutavyākhyā
- Link to the Suśrutavyākhyā at PanditProject.
Larrie Ferreiro, George Mason University, "The Technology of Armed Oceangoing Ships and the Rise of Overseas Empires"
Workshop: Minakshi Menon (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Judy Johns Schloegel, Independent Scholar, "Instituting Biology in the Great Lakes: Scientific Survey Work and Inland Seas Maritime Culture, 1893-1903"