Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi (United Arab Emirates 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, March 9, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT
Seminar with Victoria Munn (University of Auckland) on Early Modern Hair Dye Recipes
Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Leib Celnik on "History" and "Polemics" of Goethe's Farbenlehre
We will reading portions of Goethe that are not or have only recently been translated into English. Discussion of what this adds to understanding of Goethe and contemporary color theories. (and we hope maybe the start of an ongoing, separate reading group)
Nuance:
Organizer: Sarah
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Banji Chona (Lusaka): tbc
Monday, March 16, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Divya Kumar-Dumas (University of Maryland)
Metal, Matter, and Meaning: Toward a Textual and Scientific History of the Sumhuram Yakṣī
Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Rajarshi Sengupta (IIT Kanpur)
Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Color in antiquity through recent archaelogy? [tentative]
Nuance:
Organizer:
Monday, April 13, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT
Seminar on Beautifying Practices in Arabic Medieval Medical Compendia with Anna Gili (University of Padua): Medical Beauty Prescriptions. A reading of al-Rāzī's Kitāb al-Manṣūrī and al-Maǧūsī's Kitāb al-Malakī
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College)
Monday, May 11, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT
Seminar on The Authorities of Cosmetic Knowledge with Montserrat Cabré (University of Cantabria) and Mónica Durán (University of Granada)
Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Suzanne Karr Schmidt on 'Color, Cloth, Collation: Previewing "Premodern Printing on Fabric"'
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Dorit Brixius (Dresden University)