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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 a group below
- Click on the "Request Membership" link
Upcoming Meetings
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
Dorit Brixius (Dresden University)
Monday, June 1, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Seminar on Beautifying Practices in Arabic Medieval Medical Compendia with Anna Gili (University of Padua): Medical Beauty Prescriptions. A reading of al-Rāzī's Kitāb al-Manṣūrī and al-Maǧūsī's Kitāb al-Malakī
Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Collecting Color/Color Collections
Think this topic has nothing to do with you? What about that box of crayons...the paint chips you gathered from the hardware store...or the samples we asked you to put together for last year's meeting about color schemes/color palettes?
At this meeting we might consider such broad questions as
Friday, June 12, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
Medical History in the World: A Roundtable
Speakers:
Amanda Herbert (Durham)
Lauren Kassell (EUI/Cambridge)
Hannah Murphy (KCL)
Monday, July 6, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Current research: Seminar on Bathing Women in Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts with Sabrina Jocher (University of Salzburg).