Current research: Seminar on Bathing Women in Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts with Sabrina Jocher (University of Salzburg).
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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Upcoming Meetings
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Tuesday, July 7, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT
Pallavi Das, "Rethinking Cholera in the Indian Ocean World: Transregional Networks and Epidemic Governance in the Nineteenth Century."
Tuesday, July 21, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
We will gather informally to hear about all of our research, plans, and summer travels. Please join us!
Wednesday, July 22, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Jack Ashby, University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
Australian mammals, museums and colonial histories
Tuesday, August 4, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT
Saurav Kumar Rai, "Literary Depictions of Contagion in Colonial North India."
Thursday, August 13, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Edward Akintola Hubbard (darkmatter collective): Vegetal Frequencies
Tuesday, September 1, 2026, 9:00 - 10:30 am EDT
*NOTE SPECIAL TIME*
Thursday, September 10, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Luc Wodzicki (Freie University Berlin): tbc
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Dilip K Das, "Narrating Spaces of Contagion."
Tuesday, January 5, 2027, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Sathyaraj Venkatesan, "Unequal Burdens: COVID-19, BIPOC Communities, and Graphic Medical Narratives."