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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A. Blum, D. Brill - "Tokyo Wheeler or the Epistemic Preconditions of the Renaissance of Relativity" (2020)
Primary Source: (Re)Translation of John Wheeler’s Tokyo Lecture "Discussion on the Problems of Elementary Particle Theory" (1954), which is part of the attachment of the above paper.
Guest: Alexander Blum
Leib Celnik, "Revisiting Goethe's Farbenlehre: English Translations, History, and Polemics"
Banji Chona (Lusaka): tbc
"Palatino 586: A medieval Occitan health manual"
Benedetta Mariani (UEA)
Commentator: Silvia Maria Marchiori (Cambridge)
Brian Leech, American Popular Coal-ture: Mining Movies and Sad Songs in the American Imagination
Divya Kumar-Dumas (University of Maryland)
Metal, Matter, and Meaning: Toward a Textual and Scientific History of the Sumhuram Yakṣī
This month's readings will be on Imanishi Kinji as follows (see the zip file below to access them):
Halstead, Beverly. “Anti-Darwinian Theory in Japan.” Nature 317, no. 6038 (1985): 587–89. https://doi.org/10.1038/317587a0.
Hokkyo, Noboru. “Comments on Anti-Darwinian Theory in Japan: Human Concerns beyond Natural Science.” Journal of Social and Biological Structures 10, no. 4 (1987): 377–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/0140-1750(87)90054-6.
Aijie Shi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Life History of Laminaria japonica in the Northwest Pacific”
In this session, we will read and discuss Otávio Daros's working paper, “Trends in the Historiography of the Press and Journalism in Brazil.“
Speaker: Ryan A. Kashanipour, University of Arizona
Title: Epidemics and Epistemologies: Experiencing Illness in Colonial Yucatán
Kelcey Gibbons (History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society, MIT)
Rajarshi Sengupta (IIT Kanpur)
Hyperrealism in James Forbes’ Studies and Chintz Textiles: Through Research and Practice
From the eerie vision of the owl to the radiant vision of man: Study and conservation-restoration proposal of three tri-color carbon prints by Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, c.1907-1912, by Isaak Cecchetto González
Abstract:
A discussion with José Alberto Nochebuena, author of Obra Oculta: Historia Política y Artífices Del Sistema de Drenaje Profundo de La Ciudad de México (Fundación ICA, 2025).
Amy Woodson-Boulton (Loyola Marymount University), "The Question of Kinship: Totemism, Animal Ancestors, and the Evolution of Culture"
Speaker: Camille-Mary Sharp
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Visual Arts /Center for Sustainable Curating, Western University -- https://cmsharp.ca/
Session title: Petro-museologies
Manon Raffard, "'We may perhaps avoid the plague, but die from phenol': Phenol disinfection in French cities during the 1884 cholera epidemic"
Al Coppola (John Jay College, CUNY)/Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University)
Color in antiquity
In this meeting, we will explore color in antiquity through recent scholarship, both from the material and theoretical perspectives. The eight invited speakers will briefly present current work-in-progress or recent results of their work on different aspects of archelogical investigation on color, followed by a final discussion.
Dr. Omid Oudbashi, University of Gothenburg, Color technology in Ancient Iran –
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