Propose a Working Group Paper
The Consortium invites paper proposals for discussion in our working groups. Consortium working groups bring together scholars for monthly meetings in specialized fields related to the history of science, technology and medicine. Meetings are held online, and all interested scholars are welcome. We are currently soliciting paper proposals for the 2024-2025 academic year in the following working groups:
- Applied Medical History
- Collection Ecologies
- Collections and Collecting
- Color Photography in the 19th Century and Early 20th Century: Sciences, Technologies, Empires
- Color Studies
- Craft, Technology, and Material Culture in Early Modern Asia
- Critical Perspectives on the Historiography of "Western Science"
- Disability Studies and Mad Studies
- Energy History
- Evolution and Heredity in Brazil
- Health and the Urban Environment
- History and Philosophy of Contemporary Theoretical Physics
- Language Sciences
- Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health
- Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine
- Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies, and Aesthetics
- Religion, Nature, and Evolution in Modern Japan and East Asia
- Reproductive Health Histories
- Science in Early South Asia
- Science, Technology and Medicine in Latin America
- Technology
- Women, Gender and Sexuality in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Anyone interested in sharing a draft article, dissertation chapter or book chapter for discussion should submit, as a single PDF, a proposal including:
- a description of the paper (maximum 500 words)
- what you hope to gain from discussion with the group (maximum 500 words)
- a CV (maximum 3 pages)
- your preference, if any, for when you would like to present your work
Proposals will be considered on a rolling basis. Accepted drafts should be at an advanced stage and ready for circulation no later than one month before they are scheduled for discussion.
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