Andrés Salas
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.
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- Click on a group below
- Click on the "Request Membership" link
Upcoming Meetings
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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!
Thursday, November 26, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
Peter Murray Jones, ‘Remedy books and religious houses in England in the later Middle Ages’
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, "Configuring 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
"Grounds of history: ice, soil and concrete"
Thursday, December 3, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Teaching Methods Using Collections and Their Ecologies
(more info soon)
Thursday, December 3, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Maria Zarifi, "Epidemic Environments: Air, Uncertainty, and State Power on the Greek Island of Poros, 1837"
Friday, December 4, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Laura Lenzi, Japan After Dark (Cambridge 2026), chapters 1, 3. Skim intro if you can. See the book's TOC here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/japan-after-dark/3149361D47CB1F1D331909733A694D0E
Friday, December 4, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Kyle Olson, Washington University in St. Louis
"Curriculum Design for Collections-Based Research Training"
Monday, December 7, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
TEACHING
In conversation with Fritz Davis (Purdue) and Stephen Weldon (Oklahoma).
Monday, December 7, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Seminar with Dorit Brixius (Dresden University of Technology) on "Crafting Care: French Noblewomen, Cosmetics, Creativity and Knowledge Exchange in the Grand Siècle".
Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
John Henderson (Birkbeck, University of London) Patience, Dedication and Hard Work: Nurses and the Care of the Sick Poor in Early Modern Italian Hospitals
Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 9:30 - 11:00 am EST
Guest expert: Rocco Gaudenzi.
Reading: Modern Physics and Philosophy East and West: Nishida, Bohr, Yukawa
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 Salomon
Commentator: Ernst Homburg, Professor Emeritus, Maastricht University.
Nuance: Lydia Pyne on ochres
Meeting Organizer: Sarah
Friday, December 11, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
NEW BOOKS IN CONVERSATION
Lan Li (JHU) on Body Maps
and
Holly Fletcher (UCL) on Body Size in Early Modern Germany
Friday, December 11, 2026, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EST
Cecilia Slane (University of Oklahoma), “Fertilizer and Fuel: Scientific Explorations of Peat in the 19thCentury United States”
Tuesday, December 15, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
NOTE SPECIAL DATE
Topic: History of Astronomy and Exobiology as a guide for understanding scientific discovery (and disappointments)
Tuesday, December 15, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Morgan Hardy, University of Tennessee, paper title TBA
Image
Image of Andrew W. Mellon. Mellon, who served as the Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador of the United States to the Court of St. James, was a patron of the arts and sciences. Image courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.