Kenneth Zysk (University of Copenhagen)
Palmistry or the system of the bodily lines (Rekhāśāstra) and its spread westward
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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Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST
Fred Quivik, title to be determined
Author, Smoke and Tailings: An Environmental History of Butte and Anaconda, Montana (University of Nevada Press, 2025)
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"
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, 9:30 - 11:00 am EDT
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
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
Friday, March 13, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
"Palatino 586: A medieval Occitan health manual"
Benedetta Mariani (UEA)
Commentator: TBC
Friday, March 13, 2026, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
Brian Leech, American Popular Coal-ture: Mining Movies and Sad Songs in the American Imagination
Monday, March 16, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Divya Kumar-Dumas (University of Maryland)
Metal, Matter, and Meaning: Toward a Textual and Scientific History of the Sumhuram Yakṣī
Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Aijie Shi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Life History of Laminaria japonica in the Northwest Pacific”
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Speaker: Ryan A. Kashanipour, University of Arizona
Title: Epidemics and Epistemologies: Experiencing Illness in Colonial Yucatán
Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Rajarshi Sengupta (IIT Kanpur)
Thursday, April 2, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Speaker: Camille-Mary Sharp
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Visual Arts /Center for Sustainable Curating, Western University -- https://cmsharp.ca/
Session title: Petro-museologies