Spring Semester Welcome Back Event: A critical reading of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Host: Kelly O'Donnell, Towson University
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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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.
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)
Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Speaker: Audrey Ke Zhao, UC Santa Cruz & CHSTM Research Fellow
Title: TBA
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)
Monday, March 2, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Seminar with Victoria Munn (University of Auckland) on Early Modern Hair Dye Recipes
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Speaker: Tiziana Beltrame
Assistant Professor - History of Science, Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DiSSGeA), University of Padua
Co-Editor with Yaël Kreplak of "Les réserves des musées – Écologies des collections" (2024) https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11524
Session Title: Museum cohabitations: how to make room for objects and their digital avatars?
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Yovanna Pineda, "Public Health and the Urban Waters of the Riachuelo in Dock Sud, Buenos Aires City"
Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Briana Giasullo (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
"Unlocking Biodiversity Data with AI and Crowdsourcing"