Sonia Wigh (University of Cambridge)
The Lone Pregnant Body: Illustrating Feminine Forms in Manṣūr’s Anatomy
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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Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 8:00 - 9:30 pm EST
Our December meeting is cancelled. See you in January!
Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Speaker: Laurence Totelin, Cardiff University.
Talk: Beyond medical pluralism: Interactions between physician-pharmacists and other craftspeople in the Graeco-Roman world
Tuesday, December 23, 2025, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST
Cassius Adair, Media Studies, New School, "Lynn Conway's Stealth Work, 1983-1985"
Thursday, January 8, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Mistura Allison (Villa Romana) and Helena Uambembe (Berlin): tbc
Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 9:00 - 10:30 am EST
Adrianna Link (American Philosophical Society)
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 9:30 - 11:00 am EST
Daniela Monaldi - "The Statistical Style of Reasoning and the Invention of Bose-Einstein Statistics"
Guest: Daniela Monaldi
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
What historians (and other humanities/social sciences scholars) need to know about color sciences and technical color.
Nuance: TBD
Organizer: Sarah (coordinator)
Friday, January 16, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
New book preview - Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances, edited by Guy Geltner, Janna Coomans and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Oxford, February 2026)
Speakers: Janna Coomans and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Karen Pinto, University of Colorado-Boulder, “All the World’s an Island: A Taussigian Reading of Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Maps with an Islamicate Twist”
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Spring Semester Welcome Back Event: A critical reading of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Host: Kelly O'Donnell, Towson University
Friday, January 23, 2026, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm EST
Monday, January 26, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Satyanad Kichenassamy Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, LMR (CNRS, UMR9008) and
GREI (EPHE-PSL and Sorbonne-Université),
Mathematical reasoning as an outgrowth of Vedic ritual.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST
"An Inside View of Technology and Culture," with Ruth Oldenziel, Editor-in-Chief. Join us for a conversation about the field's flagship journal, what it's publishing and what it looks for in submissions, and its visions and plans for the future. Ruth has just started a second term as chief editor.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Frieda Beauregard and Mallory Novicoff (McGill)
Monday, February 2, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Current research: Seminar with Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University): Recreating ancient cosmetics: joys, pitfalls and engagement opportunities
Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Topic: Cosmology
Led by Connemara Doran
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Speaker: Nicky Reeves
Curator of scientific & medical history collections, Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/staff/nicky-reeves/
Session Title: Literal transparency, immediacy and access