Joseph Campana
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:
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- Click on the "Request Membership" link
Upcoming Meetings
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Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST
"An Inside View of Technology and Culture," with Ruth Oldenziel, Editor-in-Chief. Join us for a conversation about the field's flagship journal, what it's publishing and what it looks for in submissions, and its visions and plans for the future. Ruth has just started a second term as chief editor.
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
Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Topic: Cosmology
Led by Connemara Doran
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"
Friday, February 13, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Title TBC
Suzanna Ivanic (University of Kent)
Comentator: TBC
Friday, February 13, 2026, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EST
Eyad Houssami, “Rivers, Rhythm, and Roots” a chapter in Unwiltable Spirit: Ecology, Agriculture, and Education in Modern Lebanon
Monday, February 16, 2026, 9:00 - 10:30 am EST
NOTE SPECIAL DATE
Foucault and the archive as ‘system of enunciability’
John E. Joseph (University of Edinburgh)
Tuesday, February 17, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Aaron Van Neste, Oberlin College, TBA
Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Speaker: Audrey Ke Zhao, UC Santa Cruz & CHSTM Research Fellow
Title: TBA
Monday, February 23, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Kenneth Zysk (University of Copenhagen)
Palmistry or the system of the bodily lines (Rekhāśāstra) and its spread westward
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?