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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Join us this week as we discuss two very interesting papers, both related to bodily fluids!
Georgia Haire's paper: "White, clear, grayish, yellow, curdy: Vaginal infection, discharge and women’s everyday health in Canada and the United States, 1960s-1990s."
Latin American perspectives on medicine, public health, and the history of medicine
Panelists:
Prof. Eric D. Carter
Dr. Sebastian Fonseca
Prof. Marco Ramos
Jung Lee on 'Questioning Plant Phylogenetic Tree: Dynamic Indra's Nets from Japanese Colonial Fields'
Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik
The editors Patrick Charbonneau, Michelle Frank, Margriet van der Heijden, and Daniela Monaldi will join us for a discussion of the book Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik.
Ramya Swayamprakash, Grand Valley State University
Raising Down the “Hell gate” of the Great Lakes: The Limekiln Projects in the Lower Detroit River, 1873-1900
Jovita Yesilyurt (Natural History Museum London) and Christina Welch (University of Winchester) "Unearthing the contribution of Indigenous and enslaved African knowledge systems to the Saint Vincent Botanical Garden under Dr Anderson (1785-1811)"
Roundtable Discussion on Collaborative Research & Writing
Topics: Best practice in communication in teams; different ways of collaboration; are virtual tools a game changer; national styles; are we moving towards “big history”?
Sarah Griffin (Lambeth Palace Library) and Megan McNamee (University of Edinburgh), 'Late Medieval Concertina-Fold Almanacs: Research, Interpretation, and Curation'
Speaker:
Prof. João F. N. B. Cortese
University of São Paulo
Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology
Presentation:
To be announced
The lecture will be delivered in Portuguese.
Suggested Reading:
To be announced
To learn more about Dr. Cortese, please click here: Google Scholar.
Erica Fischer will present: 'Amateurs, butterflies, and the BMNH: Amassing and skewing institutional collections of Lepidoptera' followed by a discussion
Joanna Paxton Federico, "Finding the Center(s): Insitutionalizing the Science of Violence Prevention at the CDC (1977-1992)
John Tresch, The Warburg Institute
Excerpts from Cosmograms: How To Do Things with Worlds
"'Visual Prescription' in Yinshan Zhengyao: Image and Cure in Premodern and Modern China"
Di Wang (Oxford)
Commentator: TBC
“Patrick Syme’s Field Guide to Color: Past, Present and Future”
Joyce Dixon (Independent Art Historian), Peter Davidson (Senior Curator of Minerals, at the National Museums Scotland), Patrick Baty (Independent Scholar and Colorist)
Organizer: Giulia Simonini
Content and Submission of Book Proposals
Topics: Should I turn my dissertation into a book?; How to find the right press; how to approach editors; how to outline a book proposal; collective authorship and editing; why book series.
Speaker: W. Patrick McCray is Professor at the History Department at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA, and a series editor for Johns Hopkins University Press.
Speaker
Prof. Gracyelle Costa Ferreira
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Learn more: Prof. Gracyelle Costa Ferreira - GPSankofa
Presentation:
Details coming soon
Suggested Readings:
Methods in the Material Histories of South Asia: Snapshot-presentations and Discussion
Join us for a special meeting! We invite you to use an object or an image to introduce your work in the material history of South Asia in a snapshot presentation. These presentations will be a springboard into a discussion on methods in the Material Histories of South Asia. Pre-circulated readings TBD.
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