Guest expert: Jacob Barandes
Reading: "The history of Hilbert-space formulations of classical physics" (EPJ H, 2026)
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.
To join a working group, you must have an account on the Consortium website first.
- Log in, or create an account
- Click on a group below
- Click on the "Request Membership" link
Upcoming Meetings
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Wednesday, April 14, 2027, 9:30 - 11:00 am EDT
Wednesday, April 21, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Presenter: Osaremen Okolo, Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
Wednesday, April 28, 2027, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Dr. Dorit Brixius
Technische Universität Dresden
Tuesday, May 4, 2027, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Topic: Work and Labor in the History of Astronomy
Thursday, May 6, 2027, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Daniel S. Goldberg and Alice White
“Without Which No City is Deemed Fit for Civilized Habitation”: Denver, Typhoid Fever, and the Anti-Chinese Race Riot of 1880 "
Tuesday, May 11, 2027, 9:00 - 10:30 am EDT
Rolf Kemmler (UTAD, Vila Real)
TBA
Tuesday, May 11, 2027, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Kathleen Vongsathorn (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) Work in Twentieth-Century Ugandan Leprosaria
Wednesday, May 12, 2027, 9:30 - 11:00 am EDT
Guest Expert: Rossana Tazzioli
Reading: A chapter from her book "From Differential Geometry to Relativity" (2025) (tba)
Friday, May 14, 2027, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
Lucie Rondeau du Noyer (CNRS, CIRED, ERC-ETRANHET), "Which economists engaged in energy developmentalism? The case of early-independent Ghana (1957-1966)"
Wednesday, May 19, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Presenter: Professor John Penniman, Bucknell University
Wednesday, May 26, 2027, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Clare Byers, Knowledge Found, People Lost: Printing the History of Louisiana in 1763
Tuesday, June 8, 2027, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Reading Group! Sethina Watson, On Hospitals: Welfare, Law, and Christianity in Western Europe, 400-1320 (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Friday, June 11, 2027, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
Conrad Hirano (Soka University of America), “Clean Bodies Need a Lot of Coal: Public Bathhouses in Modern Japan”
Tuesday, July 13, 2027, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Lighting talks by Early Career Researchers to showcase of up-and-coming research in the field of hospital history.
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Ruth Schwartz Cowan (UPenn) reflecting on her work, colleagues and students at the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, May 2013.