Speaker: Audrey Ke Zhao, UC Santa Cruz & CHSTM Research Fellow
Title: TBA
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, February 23, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Kenneth Zysk (University of Copenhagen)
Palmistry or the system of the bodily lines (Rekhāśāstra) and its spread westward
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi (United Arab Emirates University)
Monday, March 2, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Seminar with Victoria Munn (University of Auckland) on Early Modern Hair Dye Recipes
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Speaker: Tiziana Beltrame
Assistant Professor - History of Science, Department of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World (DiSSGeA), University of Padua
Co-Editor with Yaël Kreplak of "Les réserves des musées – Écologies des collections" (2024) https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11524
Session Title: Museum cohabitations: how to make room for objects and their digital avatars?
Thursday, March 5, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Yovanna Pineda, "Public Health and the Urban Waters of the Riachuelo in Dock Sud, Buenos Aires City"
Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Briana Giasullo (Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University)
"Unlocking Biodiversity Data with AI and Crowdsourcing"
Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Leib Celnik on "History" and "Polemics" of Goethe's Farbenlehre
We will reading portions of Goethe that are not or have only recently been translated into English. Discussion of what this adds to understanding of Goethe and contemporary color theories. (and we hope maybe the start of an ongoing, separate reading group)
Nuance: TBA
Organizer: Sarah
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Banji Chona (Lusaka): tbc
Friday, March 13, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
"Palatino 586: A medieval Occitan health manual"
Benedetta Mariani (UEA)
Commentator: TBC
Friday, March 13, 2026, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EDT
Brian Leech, American Popular Coal-ture: Mining Movies and Sad Songs in the American Imagination
Monday, March 16, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
Divya Kumar-Dumas (University of Maryland)
Metal, Matter, and Meaning: Toward a Textual and Scientific History of the Sumhuram Yakṣī
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Speaker: Ryan A. Kashanipour, University of Arizona
Title: TBA
Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Rajarshi Sengupta (IIT Kanpur)
Thursday, April 2, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Speaker: Camille-Mary Sharp
Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Visual Arts /Center for Sustainable Curating, Western University -- https://cmsharp.ca/
Session title: Petro-museologies
Thursday, April 2, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Manon Raffard, "'We may perhaps avoid the plague, but die from phenol': Phenol disinfection in French cities during the 1884 cholera epidemic"
Friday, April 3, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Al Coppola (John Jay College, CUNY)/Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University)
Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Color in antiquity through recent archaelogy
Nuance: TBA
Organizer: Giulia