We will gather informally to hear about all of our research, plans, and summer travels. Please join us!
Working 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.
Each group meets monthly. All interested scholars are welcome to participate via online video conferencing.
To join a group:
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- Click on the "Request Membership" link
Upcoming Meetings
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Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Jack Ashby, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
Australian mammals, museums and colonial histories
Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Color Photography and Surgical Propaganda: Archival and National Narratives. Presented by Christine Slobogin
Tuesday, August 4, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT
Saurav Kumar Rai, "Literary Depictions of Contagion in Colonial North India."
Thursday, August 13, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Edward Akintola Hubbard (darkmatter collective): Vegetal Intimacies
Tuesday, August 18, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Oceans HSTM Book Club: The Sequel!
Alison Glassie (Northeastern University) will lead us in a discussion of Ned Beauman's novel Venomous Lumpsucker.
The book should be available at all the usual places, and probably at your local public library.
Tuesday, September 1, 2026, 9:00 - 10:30 am EDT
*NOTE SPECIAL TIME*
Thursday, September 10, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Luc Wodzicki (Freie University Berlin): Plants as Evidence: Botanical Ecologies and Reform Landscapes in the 18th-Century Val di Chiana
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Dilip K Das, "Narrating Spaces of Contagion."
Tuesday, January 5, 2027, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Sathyaraj Venkatesan, "Unequal Burdens: COVID-19, BIPOC Communities, and Graphic Medical Narratives."