Paper: Christoph Lehner, Jos Uffink, "Schrödinger, Szilard, and the emergence of the EPR argument" (forthcoming)
Primary Source: Schrödinger, "The Present Status of Quantum Mechanics" (1935)
Guests: Christoph Lehner, Jos Uffink
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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- Click on the "Request Membership" link
Upcoming Meetings
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Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 9:30 - 11:00 am EST
Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Presenter: Guillermo Pupo, "Annatto as Indigenous Matter: A Rhizomatic Reading of Its Use and Meaning in Colonial Context"
Thursday, December 11, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Mistura Allison (Villa Romana) and Helena Uambembe (Berlin): tbc
Friday, December 12, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EST
Michael Adamson, “Lewis Stone and the “Destruction of Venice Beach”: Contesting Petroleum Extraction as a Beneficial Use of the Southern California Shoreline
Monday, December 15, 2025, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Sonia Wigh (University of Cambridge)
The Lone Pregnant Body: Illustrating Feminine Forms in Manṣūr’s Anatomy
Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
SaeHim Park, Chinese University of Hong Kong
**NOTE: SPECIAL TIME! 8-9:30 PM EST!*
Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Speaker: Laurence Totelin, Cardiff University.
Talk: Beyond medical pluralism: Interactions between physician-pharmacists and other craftspeople in the Graeco-Roman world
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 9:30 - 11:00 am EST
Daniela Monaldi - "The Statistical Style of Reasoning and the Invention of Bose-Einstein Statistics"
Guest: Daniela Monaldi
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
What historians (and other humanities/social sciences scholars) need to know about color sciences and technical color.
Nuance: TBD
Organizer: Sarah (coordinator)
Friday, January 16, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND TIME
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Karen Pinto, University of Colorado-Boulder, “All the World’s an Island: A Taussigian Reading of Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Maps with an Islamicate Twist”
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Spring Semester Welcome Back Event: A critical reading of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Host: Kelly O'Donnell, Towson University
Monday, January 26, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
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.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Frieda Beauregard and Mallory Novicoff (McGill)
Monday, February 2, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Current research: Seminar with Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University): Recreating ancient cosmetics: joys, pitfalls and engagement opportunities
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
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
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Maggie McNulty, "Denver’s Platte Farm Open Space: From Superfund Site to Community Park"