Al Coppola (John Jay College, CUNY)/Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University)
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:
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- Click on the "Request Membership" link
Upcoming Meetings
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Color in antiquity through recent archaelogy
Nuance: TBA
Organizer: Giulia
Friday, April 10, 2026, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
Remi Gandoin, “Windpower Siting in Denmark”
Friday, April 17, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
*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
Monday, April 20, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Jan Gerris (University of Ghent)
Tandulaveyāliya - An ancient Jain philosophical reflection on life
Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University) and Sam Robinson (University of York), TBA chapter from their in-progress book on the Discovery Investigations.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Mackenzie Cooley (Hamilton College)
Tuesday, April 28, 2026, 9:00 - 10:30 am EDT
Chloé Laplatine (CNRS, Histoire des théories linguistiques)
History of language documentation in the Pacific Northwest
Monday, May 4, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Seminar on The Authorities of Cosmetic Knowledge with Montserrat Cabré (University of Cantabria) and Mónica Durán (University of Granada)
Thursday, May 7, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Guy Erez, "Catching and Curing the Plague in the Multispecies City"
Friday, May 8, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
"Medicine at the Mines in Seventeenth-Century Sumatra"
Brief abstract:
In the late seventeenth century, the Dutch East India Company launched intensive mining operations on the west coast of Sumatra. Medical practitioners played crucial roles at the mining sites. This paper examines how these European practitioners understood diseases, managed the health of the labor force, and experimented with mineral medicine at the mines.
Wenrui Zhao (University of Utah)
Commentator: TBC
Tuesday, May 12, 2026, 9:00 - 10:30 am EDT
Amanda Harris (Sydney)
Archived Sound and Creative Engagements with Papua New Guinean Cultural Heritage in Australia
Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 9:30 - 11:00 am EDT
Oral history interviews.
Guest experts: Luisa Bonolis and William Thomas
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Wednesday, May 13, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Suzanne Karr Schmidt on 'Color, Cloth, Collation: Previewing "Premodern Printing on Fabric"'
Monday, May 18, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Snapshot Presentations!
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Dorit Brixius (Dresden University)
Monday, June 1, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Current research: Seminar on Bathing Women in Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts with Sabrina Jocher (University of Salzburg).
Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Collecting Color/Color Collections
Think this has nothing to do with your life? What about that box of crayons...the paint samples you can't quite get rid of...or the samples we asked you to put together for last year's meeting about color schemes/color palettes?
We're coordinating this meeting with the Collections and Collecting Working Group who are planning a complementary session. All group members will be invited to both sessions. Stay tuned for details!
Nuance: TBA
Organizer: