Deep Space Extractivism: The Negative Portrayal of Mining in Hollywood’s Science Fiction by Brian Leech (Augustana College)
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:
- Log in, or create an account
- Click on a group below
- Click on the "Request Membership" link
Upcoming Meetings
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Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Join us for our very last working group meeting of the year. At this meeting we will explore future plans of the group and discuss a draft dissertation chapter from CHSTM working group member Emma Wathen, titled:
- “What I Needed Was a Disabled Moms Network”: Disability Feminism, Reproductive Rights, and Medical Self-Advocacy.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 9:30 - 11:00 am EDT
From S-matrix theory to strings: Scattering data and the commitment to non-arbitrariness
Guest expert: Robert van Leeuwen
Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Collecting Color/Color Collections*
First: Some statements
Thursday, June 11, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Justin Randolph Thompson (The Recovery Plan): Earth | Art | Space | Time: Re-Positioning The First Conference for Minority Participation in Earth Science and Mineral Engineering
Friday, June 12, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Medical History in the World: A Roundtable
Speakers:
Amanda Herbert (Durham)
Lauren Kassell (EUI/Cambridge)
Hannah Murphy (KCL)
Tuesday, June 16, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Penelope K. Hardy, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, "Science from the Quarterdeck: Naval-Scientific Networks and the 1870s Challenger Expedition"
Friday, June 19, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Speaker
Sofia Nestrovski
M.A. in Literary Theory, University of São Paulo (USP)
Ph.D. candidate in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, University of São Paulo (USP)
Presentation
Title to be announced soon
Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Lidia Ponce de la Vega, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Of Archives, Heritage, and Virtual Repatriation: Biologia Centrali-Americana and the Biodiversity Heritage Library
Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Responding to the Autochromes of George Terziev by Katherine Greenleaf
Abstract:
Monday, July 6, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Beauty studies book releases
Tuesday, July 7, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT
Pallavi Das, "Rethinking Cholera in the Indian Ocean World: Transregional Networks and Epidemic Governance in the Nineteenth Century."
Tuesday, July 21, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
We will gather informally to hear about all of our research, plans, and summer travels. Please join us!
Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Jack Ashby, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
Australian mammals, museums and colonial histories
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, 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): tbc
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Dilip K Das, "Narrating Spaces of Contagion."