Working Groups

Saurav Kumar Rai, "Literary Depictions of Contagion in Colonial North India."

Edward Akintola Hubbard (darkmatter collective): Vegetal Intimacies

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.  

Hoaxes and Frauds: Contested Color Photography Processes around 1900
By Hanin Hannouch 

*NOTE SPECIAL TIME*

Luc Wodzicki (Freie University Berlin): Plants as Evidence: Botanical Ecologies and Reform Landscapes in the 18th-Century Val di Chiana

Ali Glassie, Northeastern University, Syllabus Assessment Workshop: "Ocean Literacies" 

Pedro Afonso Cristovão dos Santos, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, "The Sargasso Sea and the 'Discovery' of the Americas: 19th Century Transnational Debates on Nautical History and Historical Geography"

Alina Bykova, Stanford University, Paper Title TBA

Magdalena Grüner, University of Southern California, paper title TBA

Dilip K Das, "Narrating Spaces of Contagion."

Cristián Simonetti, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, paper title TBA

Morgan Hardy, University of Tennessee, Paper title TBA

Sathyaraj Venkatesan, "Unequal Burdens: COVID-19, BIPOC Communities, and Graphic Medical Narratives."