Meeting Topic: Urban Color – from analysis to design
Nuance: TBA
Meeting Organizer: Verena
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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Tuesday, January 19, 2027, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Ada Ferraresi, DEEPMED project at University of Sevilla, dissertation chapter title TBA
Wednesday, January 20, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Presenter: Professor Sarah Naramore, University of Edinburgh
Type of Meeting: Chapter Workshop
Topic: History of Iodine Treatment
Thursday, January 21, 2027, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Tropical Forests during the Cold War Era
Wednesday, January 27, 2027, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
Wednesday, January 27, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Autochromes of the Great War 1914-1918 with Colin Axon
At the outbreak of war, soldiers were free to own cameras, and manufacturers actively encouraged them to “Make your own picture record of the War.” This freedom was short-lived. As the Allied powers established propaganda ministries and military photographic units, to control the information reaching the press.
Monday, February 1, 2027, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Roundtable discussion and Q&A with Sajed Chowdhury (Utrecht) about his new book "Women Writers and Alchemy in Early Modern Britain" (Cambridge Universtiy Press 2026, https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009744621).
Tuesday, February 2, 2027, 10:00 am - 11:30 pm EST
Discussion of chapters from Astronomy and Philosophy: Conceptual and Methodological Foundations & Challenges.
Thursday, February 4, 2027, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
Abby Agresta, "‘More Voluntary than Necessary’: Constructing Plague Crises and Quarantine in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon"
Friday, February 5, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Allison Buser, American Institute of Physics, and Karl Blumenthal, Internet Archive
"Physical Sciences & Web Archiving at AIP: Building Special Collections Continuity
through Web Archiving"
Monday, February 8, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Annelise Walker (Penn State University), “Opals Are Found in Inca Tombs”: Collecting Minerals without Mines or Miners, Alto Perú, 1753–1784
Tuesday, February 9, 2027, 9:00 - 10:30 am EST
Qi Hong (University of Toronto)
Tuesday, February 9, 2027, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Antonio García Belmar (Universidad de Alicante) Forms and Meanings of Work in the Fontilles Leprosarium [ongoing heritage project: https://www.fontillesciutatamagada.com/en/home/]
Wednesday, February 10, 2027, 9:30 - 11:00 am EST
Guest Expert: Gautier Depambour
Reading: "From the foundations of quantum mechanics to quantum optics: how John Clauser and Alain Aspect came to study the quantum properties of light" (Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 79, 14, 2025)
Wednesday, February 10, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Meeting Topic: Color of skin, Color in skin, Color on skin
Nuance: TBA
Meeting Organizers: Craig Koslofsky, Sarah
Friday, February 12, 2027, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
Pablo Gómez (Wisconsin-Madison) on Bloody Numbers
Friday, February 12, 2027, 12:30 - 2:00 pm EST
Ariel Ron (Southern Methodist University), "King Hay: The Equine Energy Regime in America during the Nineteenth Century”
Wednesday, February 17, 2027, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
Presenter: Professor Taylor Dysart, Georgia Tech
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A member of Secret Pants comedy troupe reports on strange tales of medieval births in a sketch at Life, Sex, Death and Food. Science History Institute (formerly Chemical Heritage Foundation) April 2012.