Theriac: Beyond the Recipe (Roundtable)
Speakers: Danuta Raj, Barbara Splendore, and Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska
Description: 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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Friday, November 27, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
Meeting to be rescheduled due to holiday
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Dilip K Das, "Narrating Spaces of Contagion."
Tuesday, December 1, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Topic: History of Astronomy and Exobiology as a guide for understanding scientific discovery (and disappointments)
Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Closing ceremony and final reflections.
Conveners of the group.
Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Cristián Simonetti, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, paper title TBA
Friday, December 4, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Kyle Olson, Washington University in St. Louis
"Curriculum Design for Collections-Based Research Training"
Monday, December 7, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
TEACHING
In conversation with Fritz Davis (Purdue) and Stephen Weldon (Oklahoma).
Monday, December 7, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Seminar with Dorit Brixius (Dresden University of Technology) on "Crafting Care: French Noblewomen, Cosmetics, Creativity and Knowledge Exchange in the Grand Siècle".
Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 9:30 - 11:00 am EST
Modern Physics and Philosophy East and West: Nishida, Bohr, Yukawa . Guest expert: Rocco Gaudenzi.
Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Meeting Topic: "Chemistry, Commerce and Cobalt Blue" Discussion of a work-in-progress
Author: Charlotte Abney Solomon
Commentator: TBA
Nuance: TBA
Meeting Organizer: Sarah
Friday, December 11, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
NEW BOOKS IN CONVERSATION
Lan Li (JHU) on Body Maps
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Holly Fletcher (UCL) on Body Size in Early Modern Germany
Tuesday, December 15, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Morgan Hardy, University of Tennessee, Paper title TBA
Wednesday, December 16, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Speaker: Dr. Maeleigh Tidd, University of Miami
Title & Description: TBA
Thursday, December 17, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
E. A. Hunter (University of Chicago), TBA.
Monday, January 4, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM
TBA
Tuesday, January 5, 2027, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Sathyaraj Venkatesan, "Unequal Burdens: COVID-19, BIPOC Communities, and Graphic Medical Narratives."
Tuesday, January 5, 2027, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Group Share-a-Thon and Resource Roundup
Come prepared to share about what books, articles, or tools you've found helpful and interesting in your research recently.
Wednesday, January 13, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Meeting Topic: TBA
Nuance: TBA
Meeting Organizer:
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CWML Hist Presentation: Peeling back the layers of a large flap anatomy, a rare 1891 German edition of ‘White’s Physiological Manikin’ (1886) entitled Anatomisch-physiologischer Atlas des Menschen.