Luisa Reis Castro
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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Upcoming Meetings
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Monday, March 24, 2025, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Alexei Kojevnikov - Quantum physics in the Soviet Union
Tuesday, March 25, 2025, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EDT
Enrico Beltramini, Notre Dame de Namur University, California
Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Akosua Paries-Osei (Royal Holloway, University of London), "Seditious Seed of Forbidden Flowers: The legacy of Okra in the Reproductive Resistance of Enslaved women"
Thursday, April 3, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Philippa Barr, "The Divided Sky: Producing Atmosphere through Spatial Segregation in Milan"
Friday, April 4, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Pedro Raposo (The Academy of Natural Sciences at Drexel University) and Tiago Saraiva (Drexel University)
Teaching with Collections
Wednesday, April 9, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Ian Dooley (School of Advanced Study, University of London) on 'A Pigment Paradigm Shift: How British Printing Ink Industrialization Revolutionized Color Printing in the Late Nineteenth Century'
Organizer: Elizabeth Savage
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Sahar Bazzaz (College of the Holy Cross): Plants of the Red Sea Littoral: PE Botta's Expedition to Yemen, 1836
[this is a joint event with the online lecture series "Ecologies, Collections, and Contested Heritage: (Un-)Natural History and Italian Colonialism in Africa", co-convened by Jermay Michael Gabriel and Vera-Simone Schulz]
Thursday, April 10, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
April 10, 2025
Dr Nathan Bossoh, Research Fellow in History at Southampton University (UK)
Title: Imperial Legacies and Decolonial Futures: Curating the 'Wellcome' African Medical Material
Friday, April 11, 2025, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
"Quarantine in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Space, Objects, and Bodies"
Marina Inì (University of Cambridge)
Commentator: TBC
Friday, April 11, 2025, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
- Nicholas Ostrum, Extracting Concessions and Losing Ground: The Twin Failures of Souédie and the Euphrates Dam, 1963-1969
Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Zi Yun Huang, University of Chicago
Monday, April 21, 2025, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
The Sumhuram Yakṣī, an index of metal reuse?
Divya Kumar-Dumas (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW))
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik
Editors:
Patrick Charbonneau, Michelle Frank, Margriet van der Heijden, and Daniela Monaldi
Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
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)"
Monday, April 28, 2025, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Erica Fischer
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Joanna Paxton Federico, "Finding the Center(s): Insitutionalizing the Science of Violence Prevention at the CDC (1977-1992)
Friday, May 2, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Reed Gochberg (Concord Museum)
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Edwin Coomasaru (London): Plantation Ecologies in Sri Lankan Art: Gender, Sexuality and Environmental Aesthetics
Thursday, May 8, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
TBD