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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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.
"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.
Frieda Beauregard and Mallory Novicoff (McGill)
Current research: Seminar with Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University): Recreating ancient cosmetics: joys, pitfalls and engagement opportunities
Topic: Cosmology
Led by Connemara Doran
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
Maggie McNulty, "Denver’s Platte Farm Open Space: From Superfund Site to Community Park"
Anna Grasskamp & Anne Gerritsen, eds. Transformative Jars: Asian Ceramic Vessels as Transcultural Enclosures (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022), Chs 4 & 7.
Anne Gerritsen, The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain an the Early Modern World (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), Chs. 1, 11, and 12.
Briana Giasullo (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
"Unlocking Biodiversity Data with AI and Crowdsourcing"
Anna Graber (University of Minnesota), Making Mineralogy Russian: Bashkirs, Mining Administrators, and Earth Knowledges of the Urals, 1700-1819
Guest: Aaron S. Wright
Reading: "Paul Dirac’s Seas and Bubbles" from "More than Nothing" Aaron Sidney Wright, Oxford University Press, 2024
Primary Source: Dirac, P. A. M. 1930 “Quelques Problèmes de Mécanique Quantique.” In The Collected Works of P. A. M. Dirac, 1924-1948, edited by R. H. Dalitz, 519–608. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
"God's Instrument: Bohemian gems, efficacy and medicine"
Suzanna Ivanic (University of Kent)
Comentator: Brigitte Buettner (Smith College)
Eyad Houssami, “Rivers, Rhythm, and Roots” a chapter in Unwiltable Spirit: Ecology, Agriculture, and Education in Modern Lebanon
NOTE SPECIAL DATE
John E. Joseph (University of Edinburgh)
"Foucault and the archive as ‘system of enunciability’"
Fraunhofer spectra – their place in the evolution of photography
By Dr. Alan Hodgson
Aaron Van Neste, Oberlin College, "The Rise and Fall of the South African Pilchard and Anchovy Fisheries (1950-1980)"
Speaker: Audrey Ke Zhao, UC Santa Cruz & CHSTM Research Fellow
Format: Presentation with Q&A
Title: The Global Journey of Ginseng: A Study of its Impact on Early Modern Trade and Cultural Exchange