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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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
Banji Chona (Lusaka): tbc
"Palatino 586: A medieval Occitan health manual"
Benedetta Mariani (UEA)
Commentator: TBC
Brian Leech, American Popular Coal-ture: Mining Movies and Sad Songs in the American Imagination
Divya Kumar-Dumas (University of Maryland)
Metal, Matter, and Meaning: Toward a Textual and Scientific History of the Sumhuram Yakṣī
Speaker: Ryan A. Kashanipour, University of Arizona
Title: TBA
Rajarshi Sengupta (IIT Kanpur)
Speaker: Camille-Mary Sharp
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Visual Arts /Center for Sustainable Curating, Western University -- https://cmsharp.ca/
Session title: Petro-museologies
Manon Raffard, "'We may perhaps avoid the plague, but die from phenol': Phenol disinfection in French cities during the 1884 cholera epidemic"
Al Coppola (John Jay College, CUNY)/Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University)
Color in antiquity through recent archaelogy
Nuance:
Organizer: Giulia
Remi Gandoin, “Windpower Siting in Denmark”
*Note Special Date*
"How to Draw the Buddha and Dissect a Corpse: Iconometry and Anatomy in Early-Modern Tibet"
Briana Brightly (Harvard University)
Commentator: TBC
Jan Gerris (University of Ghent)
Tandulaveyāliya - An ancient Jain philosophical reflection on life
Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College)
Seminar on The Authorities of Cosmetic Knowledge with Montserrat Cabré (University of Cantabria) and Mónica Durán (University of Granada)
Guy Erez, "Catching and Curing the Plague in the Multispecies City"
"Medicine at the Mines in Seventeenth-Century Sumatra"
Brief abstract:
In the late seventeenth century, the Dutch East India Company launched intensive mining operations on the west coast of Sumatra. Medical practitioners played crucial roles at the mining sites. This paper examines how these European practitioners understood diseases, managed the health of the labor force, and experimented with mineral medicine at the mines.
Wenrui Zhao (University of Utah)
Commentator: TBC
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