Sarah Finn (Talk Title TBA)
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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Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 9:30 - 11:00 am EST
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.
Friday, February 13, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Title TBC
Suzanna Ivanic (University of Kent)
Comentator: TBC
Friday, February 13, 2026, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EST
Eyad Houssami, “Rivers, Rhythm, and Roots” a chapter in Unwiltable Spirit: Ecology, Agriculture, and Education in Modern Lebanon
Monday, February 16, 2026, 9:00 - 10:30 am EST
NOTE SPECIAL DATE
John E. Joseph (University of Edinburgh)
"Foucault and the archive as ‘system of enunciability’"
Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Fraunhofer spectra – their place in the evolution of photography
By Dr. Alan Hodgson
Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Aaron Van Neste, Oberlin College, TBA
Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Speaker: Audrey Ke Zhao, UC Santa Cruz & CHSTM Research Fellow
Title: TBA
Monday, February 23, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Kenneth Zysk (University of Copenhagen)
Palmistry or the system of the bodily lines (Rekhāśāstra) and its spread westward
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi (United Arab Emirates University)
Monday, March 2, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Seminar with Victoria Munn (University of Auckland) on Early Modern Hair Dye Recipes
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Speaker: Tiziana Beltrame
Assistant Professor - History of Science, Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DiSSGeA), University of Padua
Co-Editor with Yaël Kreplak of "Les réserves des musées – Écologies des collections" (2024) https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11524
Session Title: Museum cohabitations: how to make room for objects and their digital avatars?
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Yovanna Pineda, "Public Health and the Urban Waters of the Riachuelo in Dock Sud, Buenos Aires City"
Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Briana Giasullo (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
"Unlocking Biodiversity Data with AI and Crowdsourcing"
Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 9:00 - 10:30 am EDT
Robert Edwards (UC San Diego / Irvine)
"Anticolonial Methods in the History of Linguistic Anthropology "
Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Leib Celnik on "History" and "Polemics" of Goethe's Farbenlehre
We will be looking at (i.e., reading) portions of Goethe that are not or have only recently been translated into English.
Our goals include a discussion of what this information adds to understanding of Goethe and contemporary color theories.
... and may include discussion of a separate reading/translation group..
Nuance: TBA
Organizer: Sarah
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Banji Chona (Lusaka): tbc