Laith Shakir (New York University), TBA
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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Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 9:30 - 11:00 am EST
Daniela Monaldi - "The Statistical Style of Reasoning and the Invention of Bose-Einstein Statistics"
Guest: Daniela Monaldi
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
What historians (and other humanities/social sciences scholars) need to know about color sciences and technical color.
Nuance: TBD
Organizer: Sarah (coordinator)
Friday, January 16, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND TIME
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”
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Spring Semester Welcome Back Event: A critical reading of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Host: Kelly O'Donnell, Towson University
Monday, January 26, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Satyanad Kichenassamy Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, LMR (CNRS, UMR9008) and
GREI (EPHE-PSL and Sorbonne-Université),
Mathematical reasoning as an outgrowth of Vedic ritual.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST
"An Inside View of Technology and Culture," with Ruth Oldenziel, Editor-in-Chief. Join us for a conversation about the field's flagship journal, what it's publishing and what it looks for in submissions, and its visions and plans for the future. Ruth has just started a second term as chief editor.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Frieda Beauregard and Mallory Novicoff (McGill)
Monday, February 2, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Current research: Seminar with Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University): Recreating ancient cosmetics: joys, pitfalls and engagement opportunities
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Speaker: Nicky Reeves
Curator of scientific & medical history collections, Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/staff/nicky-reeves/
Session Title: Literal transparency, immediacy and access
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Maggie McNulty, "Denver’s Platte Farm Open Space: From Superfund Site to Community Park"
Friday, February 13, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Title TBC
Suzanna Ivanic (University of Kent)
Comentator: TBC
Friday, February 13, 2026, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EST
Eyad Houssami, “Rivers, Rhythm, and Roots” a chapter in Unwiltable Spirit: Ecology, Agriculture, and Education in Modern Lebanon
Monday, February 16, 2026, 9:00 - 10:30 am EST
NOTE SPECIAL DATE
Foucault and the archive as ‘system of enunciability’
John E. Joseph (University of Edinburgh)