Speaker: Laurence Totelin, Cardiff University.
Talk: Beyond medical pluralism: Interactions between physician-pharmacists and other craftspeople in the Graeco-Roman world
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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Monday, January 12, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Seminar with Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University): Recreating ancient cosmetics: joys, pitfalls and engagement opportunities
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 9:30 - 11:00 am EST
Daniela Monaldi - "The Statistical Style of Reasoning and the Invention of Bose-Einstein Statistics"
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
What historians (and other humanities/social sciences scholars) need to know about color sciences and technical color.
Nuance: TBD
Organizer: Sarah (coordinator)
Friday, January 16, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
NOTE SPECIAL DATE
Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Karen Pinto, University of Colorado-Boulder, “All the World’s an Island: A Taussigian Reading of Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Maps with an Islamicate Twist”
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Spring Semester Welcome Back Event: A critical reading of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls
Host: Kelly O'Donnell, Towson University
Monday, January 26, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
Satyanad Kichenassamy Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, LMR (CNRS, UMR9008) and
GREI (EPHE-PSL and Sorbonne-Université),
Mathematical reasoning as an outgrowth of Vedic ritual.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Frieda Beauregard and Mallory Novicoff (McGill)
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Speaker: Nicky Reeves
Curator of scientific & medical history collections, Hunterian Museum & Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland
https://www.gla.ac.uk/hunterian/staff/nicky-reeves/
Session Title: Literal transparency, immediacy and access
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Maggie McNulty, "Denver’s Platte Farm Open Space: From Superfund Site to Community Park"
Monday, February 9, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST
Current research: Seminar on Bathing Women in Late Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts with Sabrina Jocher (University of Salzburg)
Friday, February 13, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Title TBC
Suzanna Ivanic (University of Kent)
Comentator: TBC
Friday, February 13, 2026, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EST
Eyad Houssami, “Rivers, Rhythm, and Roots” a chapter in Unwiltable Spirit: Ecology, Agriculture, and Education in Modern Lebanon
Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Speaker: Audrey Ke Zhao, UC Santa Cruz & CHSTM Research Fellow
Title: TBA