Working Groups

Collecting Color/Color Collections*

First: Some statements

Medical History in the World: A Roundtable

Speakers: 

Amanda Herbert (Durham)

Lauren Kassell (EUI/Cambridge)

Hannah Murphy (KCL)

Penelope K. Hardy, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, "Science from the Quarterdeck: Naval-Scientific Networks and the 1870s Challenger Expedition"

Joseph Campana

Lidia Ponce de la Vega, Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies
Brooks College of Interdisciplinary Studies

Of Archives, Heritage, and Virtual Repatriation: Biologia Centrali-Americana and the Biodiversity Heritage Library

Current research: Seminar on Bathing Women in Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts with Sabrina Jocher  (University of Salzburg).

Pallavi Das, "Rethinking Cholera in the Indian Ocean World: Transregional Networks and Epidemic Governance in the Nineteenth Century."

We will gather informally to hear about all of our research, plans, and summer travels. Please join us!

Jack Ashby, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge

Australian mammals, museums and colonial histories

Saurav Kumar Rai, "Literary Depictions of Contagion in Colonial North India."

*NOTE SPECIAL TIME*

Dilip K Das, "Narrating Spaces of Contagion."

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