Working Groups
Active Groups
The Consortium invites area 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 groups meets monthly. All interested scholars are welcome, either in person at the Consortium's offices in Philadelphia, or online via web conferencing software.
Working groups and their regularly scheduled meeting days are listed below. To join a group, click on that group's name, then the "Request group membership" link.
Upcoming Meetings
All times Eastern
Group Building and Extended Introductions. For our opening meeting of this academic year, instead of a typical workshop or presentation, we will try something new, to help everyone become better acquainted with one another: we invite all participants who attend to give an extended introduction of themselves along with a brief (1-2 minute) elevator pitch of a research project they are working on, followed by a question or two after each one from someone else who is there.
Carlos S. Dimas, University of Nevada
State Visions: Exploring the Argentine Landscape in the Gran Chaco, 1870-1910
Haejoo Kim, Syracuse University, "Medical Liberty in Nineteenth-Century Anti-Vaccination Rhetoric." Comment by Pamela K. Gilbert, University of Florida.
Robert Rouphail, Susquehanna University
Race, Cyclones, and the End of Empire in Mauritius
A Tale of Two Stories: Unearthing the 1939 Dickinson-Belskie Birth Series Sculptures & the Process of Sharing Them With Many Different Worlds
By: Rosemarie Holz, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh will present his WIP titled "Monuments, hermeneutics, or astronomy? China and the invention of Enlightenment history, ca 1650-1760."
You can find the paper abstract under the "Readings" tab, and the pre-circulated will be available in the same place closer to the event. The session will take place over Zoom, which you can access on the date through the "Participate" tab on this page.
If you have any questions leading up to the event, please do not hesitate to reach out to either coordinator.
Epstein, The Ant Trap
Ch. 1-4
- Time Buddy
- Continuing the program from the previous session.
Will Scates-Frances, Australian National University, "Captain Vanderford's Rule" (from his dissertation "Faces of Nature: The Race Thinking of Charles Pickering on the United States South Seas Exploring Expedition 1838-1842")
Eric Hintz, Lemelson Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. "Moneyball: the Computational Turn in Professional Sports"
Where to publish? Donde publicar?
Professors Leida Fernández-Prieto (Asclepio), Marcos Cueto (História, Ciências, Saúde– Manguinhos), and Leandro Rodriguez (Tapuya) will facilitate the conversation on publishing outlets available to scholars working on the history of science, technology, and medicine in Latin America.
Adrianna Link, American Philosophical Society: "Cultural Diplomacy, Conservation, and Computers: Designing an International Center in the Smithsonian Quadrangle"
Kelly O’Donnell, NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, CHSTM, “‘Public Relations in Action’: Doctors’ Wives and the Fight Against Socialized Medicine, 1924–1965.” Commentary by Naomi Rogers, Yale University.
Sietske Fransen will present her WIP titled "Publishing Science in the Seventeenth Century: The cases of Father and Son Van Helmont."
The paper abstract and pre-circulated paper will be available under the "Readings" tab closer to the event. The session will take place over Zoom, which you can access on the date through the "Participate" tab on this page.
If you have any questions leading up to the event, please do not hesitate to reach out to either coordinator.
Epstein, The Ant Trap
Ch. 5-9
- Time Buddy
- Continuing the program from the previous session
Tamara Fernando, University of Cambridge, “Seeing like the Sea: The Pearl Fishery of Ceylon as a Maritime Assemblage 1799-1925”
William Vogel, University of Minnesota. "Negotiating Cultures of Concealment: Scientists, the Military, and Biological Weapons"
Claude-Olivier Doron, Université Paris Diderot, Precisa de título (title forthcoming)
Lukas Rieppel, Brown University: Talk Title TBA
Arnaud Zimmern will present his WIP titled "Bacon on Boldness, or How to Promise the Prolongation of Life."
You can find the paper abstract under the "Readings" tab, and the pre-circulated will be available in the same place closer to the event. The session will take place over Zoom, which you can access on the date through the "Participate" tab on this page.
If you have any questions leading up to the event, please do not hesitate to reach out to either coordinator.
Epstein, The Ant Trap
TBA, selections from Ch. 10-16
- Time Buddy
- Presenter: Dominik Wujastyk, University of Alberta
- Topic: Readings from the anatomy of Caraka: Carakasaṃhitā, Śārīrasthāna 1
- Bibliography
- Time-Buddy
- Presenter: Dominik Wujastyk, University of Alberta
- Topic: Readings from Sanskrit alchemical literature. The Rasendramaṅgala of Nāgārjuna Siddha
- Bibliography
Emily Hutcheson, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Making Mutually Beneficial Ties: Anna Weber-van Bosse, Symbiosis and the Beginnings of the Self-organized Algological Network, 1880-1904"
- Time-Buddy
- Presenter: Dominik Wujastyk, University of Alberta
- Topic: Early Modern Eristic: Readings from the medical polemic Rogārogavāda by Vīreśvara
- Bibliography
Leonelli, Data-Centric Biology
TBA, selections
Katharina Steiner, University of Wisconsin-Madison, chapter from her book manuscript Visualizing Marine Biology: Wilhelm Giesbrecht and the Naples Zoological Stations 1880-1913
Johan Gärdebo, Thematic Studies in Environmental Change, Linköping University. "Following the verbs: How 'Observing the Earth' eventuall became the Earth observation satellite SPOT, 1975-1995."
Leonelli, Data-Centric Biology
TBA, selections
- Time-Buddy.
- Presenter: Dagmar Wujastyk, University of Alberta
- Topic: Readings from the Kalyāṇakāraka of Ugrāditya (fl. ca. 800 CE), a Jain work on medicine and alchemy.
- Bibliography
Samm Newton, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Pteropods Realized: From Bio-indication to Bio-inspiration"
Leonelli, Data-Centric Biology
TBA, selections
- Time-buddy
- Presenter: Andrey Klebanov
- Topic: Readings from the anonymous *Suśrutavyākhyā
- Link to the Suśrutavyākhyā at PanditProject.
Larrie Ferreiro, George Mason University, "The Technology of Armed Oceangoing Ships and the Rise of Overseas Empires"