Saurav Kumar Rai, "Literary Depictions of Contagion in Colonial North India."
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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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.
Wednesday, August 26, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Hoaxes and Frauds: Contested Color Photography Processes around 1900
By Hanin Hannouch
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, September 15, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Ali Glassie, Northeastern University, Syllabus Assessment Workshop: "Ocean Literacies"
Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Opening ceremony: roundtable on DHST activities and its comissions.
In this session, representatives of different DHST Commissions will speak about the role and activities DHST is carrying out.
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT
Behind the collections: a conversation with the Archivist.
Elizabeth Kata (IAEA).
Olivia Mandica-Hart (CERN).
Rob Sunderland (NBA).
Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Thomas Simpson, University of Warwick
"Knowing Earth through ice: frozen matter and planetary sciences before ESS"
Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
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"
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT
Challenges and possibilities of working in a Museum.
David Pantalony (Ingenium).
Moema Vergara (MAST).
Marta Lourenço (MUHNAC).
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Digital humanities and AI: use and limits as methodological tools.
Giovanna Di Rosario (Polimi).
Matthieu Huson (CNRS/PSL).
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Alina Bykova, Stanford University, Paper Title TBA
Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Magdalena Grüner, University of Southern California, paper title TBA
Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
North-South knowledge exchange: critical thinking and new perspectives.
Michael Barany (Edinburgh).
Gisela Mateos (UNAM).
Friday, November 27, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
Meeting to be rescheduled due to holiday
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Dilip K Das, "Narrating Spaces of Contagion."
Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Closing ceremony and final reflections.
Conveners of the group.
Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Cristián Simonetti, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, paper title TBA