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.

To join a group:

  1. Log in, or create an account
  2. Click on a group below
  3. Click on the "Request Membership" link
Submit a discussion paper for one of the working groups.

Upcoming Meetings

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Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST

Magdalena Grüner, University of Southern California, paper title TBA

Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST

North-South knowledge exchange: critical thinking and new perspectives.

This session will explore the processes, as well as the tensions, of knowledge exchange between the Global North and Global South

 

Michael Barany (Edinburgh): Michael Barany is Senior Lecturer in History of Science at the University of Edinburgh and researches and teaches the history and culture of modern science and mathematics. https://mbarany.com.

Friday, November 27, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST

Meeting to be rescheduled due to holiday

Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST

Dilip K Das, "Narrating Spaces of Contagion."

Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST

Closing ceremony and final reflections.

 

Conveners of the group.

Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST

Cristián Simonetti, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, paper title TBA

Friday, December 4, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST

Kyle Olson, Washington University in St. Louis

"Curriculum Design for Collections-Based Research Training"

Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST

Meeting Topic:  "Chemistry, Commerce and Cobalt Blue" Discussion of a work-in-progress
                         Author: Charlotte Abney Solomon
                         Commentator: TBA

Nuance: TBA

 

Meeting Organizer: Sarah

Tuesday, December 15, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST

Morgan Hardy, University of Tennessee, Paper title TBA

Tuesday, January 5, 2027, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST

Sathyaraj Venkatesan, "Unequal Burdens: COVID-19, BIPOC Communities, and Graphic Medical Narratives."

Wednesday, January 13, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST

Meeting Topic:  TBA 

Nuance: TBA

 

Meeting Organizer:

Wednesday, February 10, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST

Meeting Topic:  TBA 

Nuance: TBA

 

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Preparing high altitude cosmic ray experiment, W.F.G. Swann (1884-1962)Image courtesy of the American Philosophical Society

Past Groups and Seminars