New Online Working Groups for 2025-2026

The Consortium is delighted to announce that five new working groups will join our calendar of monthly online meetings for 2025-2026. The Consortium's working group program fosters a vibrant community, with over 4,000 attendees from six continents participating in more than 250 meetings each year. The groups discuss works-in-progress and published works with specialists in a wide variety of subfields related to history of science, technology and medicine. We welcome all interested scholars, regardless of academic rank or affiliation, to join a group.

New groups:

• Astronomy

• Beauty Studies in the Premodern World

• Ethics and/in the History of Medicine and the Human Sciences

• Minescapes

• Pharmacy History

New participants are also welcome to join the groups continuing in the new year:

• Anthropology

• 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

• Death and Disease in the Islamicate World

• Energy History

• Engineering Studies

• Evolution and Heredity in Brazil

• Health and the Urban Environment

• Hidden Hands in Colonial Natural Histories

• History and Philosophy of Contemporary Theoretical Physics

• Insect Humanities

• Language Sciences

• Media Studies

• Medieval European Medical Manuscripts

• Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health

• Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine

• Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies, and Aesthetics (MMEA)

• Religion, Nature and Evolution in Modern Japan and East Asia

• Reproductive Health Histories

• Science in Early South Asia

• Technology