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.

  1. Log in, or create an account
  2. Click on a group below
  3. Click on the "Request Membership" link
Submit a discussion paper for one of the working groups.

Upcoming Meetings

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Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST

Digital humanities and AI: use and limits as methodological tools.

 

Giovanna Di Rosario (Polimi).

Matthieu Huson (CNRS/PSL).

 

Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST

Alina Bykova, Stanford University, Paper Title TBA

Friday, November 6, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST

Erin McLeary and Myles Chang Matunis, Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library

Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST

Meeting Topic:  TBA 

Nuance: TBA

 

Meeting Organizer: Elizabeth

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.

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."

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

Friday, December 4, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST

Kyle Olson, Washington University in St. Louis

"Curriculum Design for Collections-Based Research Training"

Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST

Meeting Topic:  "Chemistry, Commerce and Cobalt Blue" Discussion of a work-in-progress
                         Author: Charlotte Abney Solomon
                         Commentator: TBA

Nuance: TBA

 

Meeting Organizer: Sarah

Tuesday, December 15, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST

Morgan Hardy, University of Tennessee, Paper title TBA

Tuesday, January 5, 2027, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST

Sathyaraj Venkatesan, "Unequal Burdens: COVID-19, BIPOC Communities, and Graphic Medical Narratives."

Wednesday, January 13, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST

Meeting Topic:  TBA 

Nuance: TBA

 

Meeting Organizer:

Friday, February 5, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST

Allison Buser, American Institute of Physics, and Karl Blumenthal, Internet Archive

"Physical Sciences & Web Archiving at AIP:​ Building Special Collections Continuity
through Web Archiving​"

Wednesday, February 10, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST

Meeting Topic:  TBA 

Nuance: TBA

 

Meeting Organizer:

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The first meeting of the Academy was held on the second floor, above an apothecary shop, on January 25, 1812

The first meeting of the Academy was held on the second floor, above an apothecary shop, on January 25, 1812.

Past Groups and Seminars