Suzanne Karr Schmidt on 'Color, Cloth, Collation: Previewing "Premodern Printing on Fabric"'
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.
Propose a New Working Group for 2026-2027
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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Thursday, May 14, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Kevin Murungi (32 Degrees East) and Luca Tenreira (European University Institute): 'Bomba La Mafuta' : Textile Memory and Multi-Species Entanglements Along the East African Oil Corridor
Monday, May 18, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Snapshot Presentations!
Monday, May 18, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Rescheduled Seminar with Victoria Munn (University of Auckland) on Early Modern Hair Dye Recipes
Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT
Gaana Jayagopalan, Viral Vernaculars: Mediating Contagion, Care, and Communication in the Global South
Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Seth Stein LeJacq, Hunter College, The City University of New York, "Hidden Crimes: Sexual Violence and Historical Memory of Britain’s Navy in the Age of Sail"
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Dresden University)
Monday, June 1, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Seminar on Beautifying Practices in Arabic Medieval Medical Compendia with Anna Gili (University of Padua): Medical Beauty Prescriptions. A reading of al-Rāzī's Kitāb al-Manṣūrī and al-Maǧūsī's Kitāb al-Malakī
Monday, June 8, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EDT
Deep Space Extractivism: The Negative Portrayal of Mining in Hollywood’s Science Fiction by Brian Leech (Augustana College)
Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Collecting Color/Color Collections*
First: Some statements
Friday, June 12, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Medical History in the World: A Roundtable
Speakers:
Amanda Herbert (Durham)
Lauren Kassell (EUI/Cambridge)
Hannah Murphy (KCL)
Wednesday, June 24, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
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
Monday, July 6, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Current research: Seminar on Bathing Women in Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts with Sabrina Jocher (University of Salzburg).
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
Tuesday, September 1, 2026, 9:00 - 10:30 am EDT
*NOTE SPECIAL TIME*
TBA
Tuesday, January 5, 2027, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Unequal Burdens: COVID-19, BIPOC Communities, and Graphic Medical Narratives