Amanda Harris (Sydney)
Triangulating the relationships between diaspora speaker communities, dispersed cultural heritage, and modern digital archives of Oceania
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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Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 9:30 - 11:00 am EDT
Oral history interviews.
Guest experts: Luisa Bonolis and William Thomas
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Suzanne Karr Schmidt on 'Color, Cloth, Collation: Previewing "Premodern Printing on Fabric"'
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
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Dorit Brixius (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