Cassius Adair, Media Studies, New School, "Lynn Conway's Stealth Work, 1983-1985"
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.
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Upcoming Meetings
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Thursday, January 8, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Mistura Allison (Villa Romana) and Helena Uambembe (Berlin): tbc
Monday, January 12, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST
Presenter: Laith Shakir (New York University)
Title: "Aeriel Photography, Oil, and Archaeology in the Interwar Middle East"
Tuesday, January 13, 2026, 9:00 - 10:30 am EST
Adrianna Link (American Philosophical Society)
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 9:30 - 11:00 am EST
Daniela Monaldi - "The Statistical Style of Reasoning and the Invention of Bose-Einstein Statistics"
Guest: Daniela Monaldi
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Approaches to Color (continued). Two presentations with a group discussion.
The statements that sparked these talks were:
Friday, January 16, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
New book preview - Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances, edited by Guy Geltner, Janna Coomans and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Oxford, February 2026)
Speakers: Janna Coomans and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Early Color Processes in Chilean Photography: Archives and Foreign Photographers (1890–1920)
with Samuel Salgado Tello
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Karen Pinto, University of Colorado-Boulder, “All the World’s an Island: A Taussigian Reading of Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Maps with an Islamicate Twist”
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Spring Semester Welcome Back Event: A critical reading of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Host: Kelly O'Donnell, Towson University
Friday, January 23, 2026, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm EST
Monday, January 26, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Satyanad Kichenassamy Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, LMR (CNRS, UMR9008) and
GREI (EPHE-PSL and Sorbonne-Université),
Mathematical reasoning as an outgrowth of Vedic ritual.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST
"An Inside View of Technology and Culture," with Ruth Oldenziel, Editor-in-Chief. Join us for a conversation about the field's flagship journal, what it's publishing and what it looks for in submissions, and its visions and plans for the future. Ruth has just started a second term as chief editor.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Frieda Beauregard and Mallory Novicoff (McGill)
Monday, February 2, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Current research: Seminar with Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University): Recreating ancient cosmetics: joys, pitfalls and engagement opportunities
Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Topic: Cosmology
Led by Connemara Doran
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Speaker: Nicky Reeves
Curator of scientific & medical history collections, Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/staff/nicky-reeves/
Session Title: Literal transparency, immediacy and access
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Maggie McNulty, "Denver’s Platte Farm Open Space: From Superfund Site to Community Park"
Friday, February 6, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Anna Grasskamp & Anne Gerritsen, eds. Transformative Jars: Asian Ceramic Vessels as Transcultural Enclosures (London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022), Chs 4 & 7.
Anne Gerritsen, The City of Blue and White: Chinese Porcelain an the Early Modern World (Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), Chs. 1, 11, and 12.