Mikhail Moosa, "The Making of Racial Ecology: Sanitation, Segregation, and Housing in Johannesburg, 1900-1920"
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 working group, you must have an account on the Consortium website first.
- Log in, or create an account
- Click on a group below
- Click on the "Request Membership" link
Upcoming Meetings
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Friday, November 6, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Erin McLeary and Myles Chang Matunis, Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library
"Drawing From the Archive: Exploring the Legacy of a Queer Medical Illustrator and her Art"
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 3:00 - 4:30 am EST
NOTE SPECIAL TIME
Kathryn Tanaka (University of Hyogo) The Fruit of Illness: Politics, Patient Labor and Poetry in Twentieth Century Japanese Leprosaria
Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Francesca Tancini (PiCoBoo Project, Newcastle University, University of Bologna) on 'Walter Crane and Edmund Evans: the two faces of colour-printing for all'
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Joint Session with the Technology Working Group
Danielle Wallner presents a chapter from her dissertation Computing at the Periphery: Novosibirsk and the Development of Computer Science, 1960–1991
Please read the attached chapter for the meeting.
Friday, November 13, 2026, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EST
Hamza Diman (Bundeswehr Universität Munich), "From Firewood to Charcoal: Socio-Technical Energy Transitions in Domestic Cooking Practices in Lomé, Togo"
Tuesday, November 17, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Magdalena Grüner, University of Southern California, paper title TBA
Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
North-South knowledge exchange: critical thinking and new perspectives.
This session will explore the processes, as well as the tensions, of knowledge exchange between the Global North and Global South
Michael Barany (Edinburgh): Michael Barany is Senior Lecturer in History of Science at the University of Edinburgh and researches and teaches the history and culture of modern science and mathematics. https://mbarany.com.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Theriac: Beyond the Recipe (Roundtable)
Speakers: Danuta Raj, Barbara Splendore, and Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska
Description: TBA
Tuesday, November 24, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST
DIFFERENT MEETING TIME FOR NOVEMBER 2026!
Joint Session with the Computing History Working Group
Thursday, November 12, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CST
Danielle Wallner presents a chapter from her dissertation Computing at the Periphery: Novosibirsk and the Development of Computer Science, 1960–1991
Please see the draft chapter, below.
Wednesday, November 25, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Andrés Salas
Wednesday, November 25, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Katharine Whitman presents The History, Identification and Preservation of Photographs on Glass
Katharine is a photograph conservator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, Canada is writing a Getty Conservation Institute book!
Friday, November 27, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
Meeting to be rescheduled due to holiday
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Dilip K Das, "Narrating Spaces of Contagion."
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Topic: History of Astronomy and Exobiology as a guide for understanding scientific discovery (and disappointments)
Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Closing ceremony and final reflections.
Conveners of the group.
Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Cristián Simonetti, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, paper title TBA
Thursday, December 3, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Teaching Methods Using Collections and Their Ecologies
(more info soon)
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W. F. G. Swann (1884-1962), pioneer in cosmic ray physics.