Penelope K. Hardy, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, "Science from the Quarterdeck: Naval-Scientific Networks and the 1870s Challenger Expedition"
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.
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Upcoming Meetings
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Thursday, June 18, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
"Between Corpse and Corpus: Clandestine Dissections and the Codification of Anatomical Knowledge in New Order Istanbul"
Yasemin Akçagüner (Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow, European University Institute)
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
“The Shame of Being Ashamed: The Relationship Between the Literature of the ‘Self’ and Darwin’s Thoughts on Humankind”
[“A vergonha de sentir vergonha. A relação entre a literatura do ‘eu’ e o pensamento de Darwin sobre a humanidade”]
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:
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."
Thursday, July 9, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Dyoniz Kindata (DW): tbc
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
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, 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."