Working 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.
| Tuesdays | Wednesdays | Thursdays | Fridays | |
| 1st | Early Modern Science | Earth & Environmental Sciences | Biological Sciences | Medicine and Health |
| 2nd | History & Philosophy of Science | |||
| 3rd | Technology |
Join New Working Groups
- Evolution and Heredity in Brazil
- History of Science in Asia: Decolonizing the History of Science
- Malingering and Social Welfare Policy
- Measuring Aurality: Interdisciplinary Histories of Disability, Technology, and Military Acoustics
- Sciences of the Senses
- Under Tropical Skies: Science, Technology, and Society
Upcoming Meetings
All times Eastern
Elise Mitchell, New York University, speaking on "Smallpox Inoculation, Slavery, and Kinship in the Atlantic World."
Our second meeting will cover "Part II: Vision" in Science in the Age of Baroque.
We will discuss selections from two related and recently published books:
Pablo Gomez, The Experiential Carribean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
Cameron Strang, Frontiers of Science: Imperialism and Natural Knowledge in the Gulf South Borderlands, 1500-1850 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018).
The two authors will open the discussion with comments on each other's books.
Please join us to meet with Gina Surita, Princeton University PhD student. Her paper "The Power of Phosphate: Making and Breaking Bonds in Wartime" is now posted.
Introduction: Asia and Decolonization as Method
Session moderated by Fa-ti Fan (SUNY Binghamton)
Discussion led by Mary Augusta Brazelton, Elise Burton, Shireen Hamza and Charu Singh
Richard Staley, "The Economic Explanation" (in prep.) and "Sensory Studies, or When Physics was Psychophysics: Ernst Mach and Physics Between Physiology and Psychology, 1860-71" (2018).
de Regt, Understanding Scientific Understanding
Chapter 4
Jaipreet Virdi, University of Delaware, "Dorothy Brett's 'Ear Machines': Disability, Technology and Representation"
Our final meeting for the fall will cover "Part III: Excess" in Science in the Age of Baroque.
We will discuss a chapter in progress by Mary Richie McGuire (Virginia Tech) from her project “Translating Natural Knowledge in the Age of Revolution: Tobacco, Science, and the Rights of Man and Nature in the Art of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1795 to 1820."