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:
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Speaker
Alessandra Santana Soares e Barros
Full Professor, Federal University of Bahia (UFBA)
Graduate Program in Education and Graduate Program in Teaching, Philosophy and History of Science
Presentation
“O lugar da ‘IMG’ (Interruption Médicale de Grossesse) nos discursos sobre Luto Perinatal (Deuil Périnatal) na França”
[“The place of ‘IMG’ (Medical Termination of Pregnancy) in discourses on Perinatal Grief in France”]
We will gather informally to hear about all of our research, plans, and summer travels. Please join us!
Jack Ashby, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
Australian mammals, museums and colonial histories
Color Photography and Surgical Propaganda: Archival and National Narratives. Presented by Christine Slobogin
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.
*NOTE SPECIAL TIME*
Luc Wodzicki (Freie University Berlin): Plants as Evidence: Botanical Ecologies and Reform Landscapes in the 18th-Century Val di Chiana
Dilip K Das, "Narrating Spaces of Contagion."
Sathyaraj Venkatesan, "Unequal Burdens: COVID-19, BIPOC Communities, and Graphic Medical Narratives."
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