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.
To join a group:
- Log in, or create an account
- Click on a group below
- Click on the "Membership" tab and select "Request Group Membership"
Submit a discussion paper for one of the working groups.
Upcoming Meetings
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Speaker:
Mikhail Konashev
Presentation:
"On Brazil and Brazilians in Dobzhansky's Diary."
Re-discovering the Joly screen process through making art as practice research with
Alan Phelan
Alison Glassie, Northeastern University, "Olokun's Aquarium"
Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies, and Aesthetics (MMEA)
Guillermo Pupo Pernet (University of Arkansas): Achiote: Painting the Town Red
Lynn Nyhart, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Max Chervin Bridge, Brown University
Anna Guasco, University of Cambridge
Caleb Shelburne (Department of the History of Science, Harvard University) will present "Leeches for the ‘Sick Man of Europe’: Science and the Environment in the Ottoman Leech Industry, 1830-1870," followed by a discussion.
DEEPMED Project, "Visualizing the 3D Mediterranean (and beyond?): A Work in Progress Session"
Katharine Anderson, York University
David McCaskey, University of California, Riverside, "Net Losses: The Failures and Successes of Trawling in French Indochina"
Derek Nelson, Everett Community College
Zi Yun Huang, University of Chicago
E. M. Nielsen, Brown University