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.
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Anna Grasskamp & Anne Gerritsen, eds. Transformative Jars: Asian Ceramic Vessels as Transcultural Enclosures (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022), Chs 4 & 7.
Anne Gerritsen, The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain an the Early Modern World (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), Chs. 1, 11, and 12.
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.
Title TBC
Suzanna Ivanic (University of Kent)
Comentator: TBC
Eyad Houssami, “Rivers, Rhythm, and Roots” a chapter in Unwiltable Spirit: Ecology, Agriculture, and Education in Modern Lebanon
NOTE SPECIAL DATE
John E. Joseph (University of Edinburgh)
"Foucault and the archive as ‘system of enunciability’"
Fraunhofer spectra – their place in the evolution of photography
By Dr. Alan Hodgson
Aaron Van Neste, Oberlin College, TBA
Speaker: Audrey Ke Zhao, UC Santa Cruz & CHSTM Research Fellow
Format: Presentation with Q&A
Title: The Global Journey of Ginseng: A Study of its Impact on Early Modern Trade and Cultural Exchange
Kenneth Zysk (University of Copenhagen)
Palmistry or the system of the bodily lines (Rekhāśāstra) and its spread westward
Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi (United Arab Emirates University)
Seminar with Victoria Munn (University of Auckland) on Early Modern Hair Dye Recipes
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?
Yovanna Pineda, "Public Health and the Urban Waters of the Riachuelo in Dock Sud, Buenos Aires City"
Briana Giasullo (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
"Unlocking Biodiversity Data with AI and Crowdsourcing"
Robert Edwards (UC San Diego / Irvine)
"Anticolonial Methods in the History of Linguistic Anthropology "
A. Blum, D. Brill - "Tokyo Wheeler or the Epistemic Preconditions of the Renaissance of Relativity" (2020)
Guest: Alexander Blum
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