Guillermo Pupo on trade in anatto in European markets
Commentator: Deirdre Moore, European University Institute
Nuance: Silas Edwards on chromolithography, aniline inks and butterfly collecting
Organizer: Sarah
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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Thursday, December 11, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Mistura Allison (Villa Romana) and Helena Uambembe (Berlin): tbc
Monday, December 15, 2025, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Sonia Wigh (University of Cambridge)
TBD
Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
SaeHim Park, Chinese University of Hong Kong
**NOTE: SPECIAL TIME! 8-9:30 PM EST!*
Friday, January 16, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
NOTE SPECIAL DATE
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Karen Pinto, University of Colorado-Boulder, “All the World’s an Island: A Taussigian Reading of Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Maps with an Islamicate Twist”
Monday, January 26, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Satyanad Kichenassamy (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne)
Mathematical reasoning as an outgrowth of Vedic ritual.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Frieda Beauregard and Mallory Novicoff (McGill)
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Jake Benson (and others) on paper marbling
Nuance: Lara Lee Meintjes on her current archive-based project
Organizer: Elizabeth
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)
Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Leib Celnik on "History" and "Polemics" of Goethe's Farbenlehre
We will reading portions of Goethe that are not or have only recently been translated into English. Discussion of what this adds to understanding of Goethe and contemporary color theories. (and we hope maybe the start of an ongoing, separate reading group)
Nuance:
Organizer: Sarah
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Banji Chona (Lusaka): tbc
Monday, March 16, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Divya Kumar-Dumas
Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Color in antiquity through recent archaelogy? [tentative]
Nuance:
Organizer:
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College)
TBA
Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Suzanne Karr Schmidt on "Color, Cloth, Collation: Previewing "Premodern Printing on Fabric" exhibition at the Newberry Library
Nuance:
Organizer: Elizabeth
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Dorit Brixius (Dresden University)