- Nataliia Laas, Waste Anxieties in the Late Soviet Union
- Jan Wachter, Energy Policy in East Central Europe
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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- Click on a group below
- Click on the "Membership" tab and select "Request Group Membership"
Upcoming Meetings
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Friday, February 14, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EST
Monday, February 17, 2025, 8:00 - 9:30 pm EST
Akihisa Setoguchi (Kyoto) on 'Celebrating Darwin in Japan: The “Success” and “Failure” of the Reception of Evolutionary Theory'
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
David McCaskey, University of California, Riverside, "Net Losses: The Failures and Successes of Trawling in French Indochina"
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Don Opitz
Monday, February 24, 2025, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Leah Mahmut
Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Johannes Hagmann - A Quantum Insight: Deutsches Museum exhibition
Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Hugo Rueda (SSOM, McGill), "Taxonomical Clashes. Indigenous Material Culture in the Natural History Museum of Chile during the 19th century"
Thursday, March 6, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Naomi Adiv, "Last Bathhouse Standing: The Allen Street Public Bath, New York City, 1905-1975"
Friday, March 7, 2025, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
In our next meeting on Friday, February 7, 2025 11:00 am to 12:30 pm EST, we will read Adam Bobbette's The Pulse of the Earth: Political Geology in Java, Preface, chapter 1, and Chapter 6 (total around 70 pages). Please join us if you can.
Friday, March 7, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Erin McLeary (Mütter Museum)
Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Colorways in African Traditions
Presenters: Laurence Douny (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) & Dame Kane (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar)
Organizer: Sarah Lowengard
Thursday, March 13, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Olga Smith (Newcastle University): Ecopolitical Aesthetics of Weeds
Thursday, March 13, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Leah Malamut, PhD candidate, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Friday, March 14, 2025, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
"'God's Gift to the People of the Orient': Coffee, Slavery, and Medicine in Early Modern Tuscany"
Lucia Dacome (University of Toronto)
Commentator: TBC
Friday, March 14, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
- Jake Stephen Milner, Decarbonising Deindustrial Places: Industrial Collective Memories in the Age of Green Economic Development
- Aditi Basu, Hinduism and Sun Deification in India: Relevance in the 21st Century as Solar Energy
Monday, March 17, 2025, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Some reflections on the practices of proofs in Sanskrit mathematical texts, with a special emphasis on Śaṅkara Vāriyar’s work on Mādhava’s procedure to approximate the circumference of a circle.
Agathe Keller (Sphere, CNRS / Université Paris Cité)
Monday, March 17, 2025, 8:00 - 9:30 pm EDT
Longkai Zang on 'Genjin and Enjin in Japan: Culture-laden Terms in Hominin Evolution, 1890-1947'
Tuesday, March 18, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Derek Nelson, Everett Community College
Wednesday, March 19, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Kristine Palmieri, PhD
Gastwissenschaftlerin / Visiting Researcher
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für die Erforschung der Europäischen Aufklarung
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Friday, March 21, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
UCLA Heat Lab
Panelists:
Bharat Venkat (UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics)