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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Leib Celnik on "History" and "Polemics" of Goethe's Farbenlehre
We will be looking at (i.e., reading) portions of Goethe that are not or have only recently been translated into English.
Our goals include a discussion of what this information adds to understanding of Goethe and contemporary color theories.
... and may include discussion of a separate reading/translation group..
Nuance: TBA
Organizer: Sarah
Banji Chona (Lusaka): tbc
"Palatino 586: A medieval Occitan health manual"
Benedetta Mariani (UEA)
Commentator: TBC
Brian Leech, American Popular Coal-ture: Mining Movies and Sad Songs in the American Imagination
Divya Kumar-Dumas (University of Maryland)
Metal, Matter, and Meaning: Toward a Textual and Scientific History of the Sumhuram Yakṣī
Aijie Shi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Life History of Laminaria japonica in the Northwest Pacific”
Speaker: Ryan A. Kashanipour, University of Arizona
Title: Epidemics and Epistemologies: Experiencing Illness in Colonial Yucatán
Rajarshi Sengupta (IIT Kanpur)
Speaker: Camille-Mary Sharp
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Visual Arts /Center for Sustainable Curating, Western University -- https://cmsharp.ca/
Session title: Petro-museologies
Manon Raffard, "'We may perhaps avoid the plague, but die from phenol': Phenol disinfection in French cities during the 1884 cholera epidemic"
Al Coppola (John Jay College, CUNY)/Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University)
Color in antiquity through recent archaelogy
Nuance: TBA
Organizer: Giulia
Remi Gandoin, “Windpower Siting in Denmark”
*Note Special Date*
"How to Draw the Buddha and Dissect a Corpse: Iconometry and Anatomy in Early-Modern Tibet"
Briana Brightly (Harvard University)
Commentator: TBC
Jan Gerris (University of Ghent)
Tandulaveyāliya - An ancient Jain philosophical reflection on life
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University) and Sam Robinson (University of York), TBA chapter from their in-progress book on the Discovery Investigations.
Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College)
Chloé Laplatine (CNRS, Histoire des théories linguistiques)
History of language documentation in the Pacific Northwest
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