Roundtable on the Feather Book project
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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Tuesday, March 2, 2027, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Topic: Astronomy & Environmental Impact
Thursday, March 4, 2027, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Speaker: Kathleen Pierce, Smith College
Thursday, March 4, 2027, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Eve Aspinwall, University of Minnesota
Engineering Safe Environments: Clinical Ecology and the Construction of Comprehensive Environmental Control Units in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Tuesday, March 9, 2027, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Anna Peterson (Independent Scholar) Doing the Leg Work: Papal Legates and the Enforcement of Quia Contigit in Narbonnese Hospitals (1330s)
Wednesday, March 10, 2027, 9:30 - 11:00 am EST
Guest Expert: David Kaiser
Reading: "Coordinated Blasts: Cold War Roots of Numerical Relativity in the United States" (forthcoming, BJHS Themes)
Wednesday, March 10, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Maria Aresin (Curator of Prints and Drawings Pre-1800, Kunsthalle Bremen) on 'Collecting chiaroscuro woodcuts in 19th century Bremen'
Friday, March 12, 2027, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Maya Corry (Oxford Brookes)
Commentator: tbc
Friday, March 12, 2027, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EST
Jennifer Eaglin (Ohio State University): "Extracting Nuclear Ores for a Nuclear Future"
Wednesday, March 17, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Presenter: Professor MacKenzie Cooley, Hamilton College
Wednesday, March 24, 2027, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Amelia Bonea
Friday, April 2, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Roland McCall and Michael Azevedo, West Chester University
Tuesday, April 6, 2027, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Topic: Space Science in the Modern Islamic World
Friday, April 9, 2027, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Claire Litt (I Tatti), "Bloodstones and Women's Health"
Commentator: tbc
Friday, April 9, 2027, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
Trish Kahle (Georgetown-Qatar), "Electricity is in the Heart: Labor, Electricity, and American Global Power”
Tuesday, April 13, 2027, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Uğurgül Tunç (McGill University) Gendering Medical Labour in the Twentieth Century Across Geographies
Image
Philadelphia Central High School for Boys and Pennsylvania State Arsenal, 1839. This daguerreotype, created by Joseph Saxton, is the oldest known photograph taken in the United States. Image courtesy of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.