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News of the Consortium: March 15, 2026
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The Consortium's working groups are held online and are open to all interested scholars. Each working group convenes monthly for discussions of works-in-progress or important published texts on a wide variety of specialized subfields in history of science, technology and medicine. Join one or more groups, and participate in the conversation.
You can also submit a paper for discussion in one of the working groups.
Please note that all times listed below are EDT (UTC-4:00). Log in at www.chstm.org, and set your time zone for the correct local time for each meeting.
History of Science in Early South Asia
Monday, March 16, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EDT
"Metal, Matter, and Meaning: Toward a Textual and Scientific History of the Sumhuram Yakṣī"
Divya Kumar-Dumas, University of Maryland
History of Life and Human Sciences in Modern Japanese Culture (19th–20th Century)
Monday, March 16, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 pm EDT
Selection of readings on Imanishi Kinji:
Halstead, Beverly. “Anti-Darwinian Theory in Japan.”
Hokkyo, Noboru. “Comments on Anti-Darwinian Theory in Japan: Human Concerns beyond Natural Science.”
History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine
Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
“The Life History of Laminaria japonica in the Northwest Pacific”
Aijie Shi, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pharmacy History
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
"Epidemics and Epistemologies: Experiencing Illness in Colonial Yucatán"
Ryan A. Kashanipour, University of Arizona
Insect Humanities
Monday, March 23, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
"Colonial Entomology and Labor Relations in Sumatra, 1880–1930 of the Gregorian Calendar"
Alexander Silaen, University of Vienna
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University of Pennsylvania
Monday, March 16, 2026, 3:30 pm EDT
Ethnographic Shieldwork: Diplomats of Imperial Collapse in Atlantic West Africa
Nana Oseh Quarshie
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 6:00 pm EDT
Tackling the Crisis in Rural Health: Nurse-Led Clinics, Community Activism, and the Politics of Rural Health in the 1970s
Dominique Tobbell
Huntington Library
Thursday, March 19, 2026, 3:00 pm EDT
Of Blades, Arrows, and bullets: Conceptualizing Weapon Wounds in Early Modern China
Yi-Li Wu
Science History Institute
Thursday, March 19, 2026, 6:00 pm EDT
The Maternal Imprint
Sarah Richardson
American Institute of Physics
Friday, March 20, 2026, 5:45 pm EDT
Hertha Sponer and the Path from Electron Diffraction to Wave/Particle Duality
Elise Crull
University of Pennsylvania
Monday, March 23, 2026, 3:30 pm EDT
Eight Stories about the Gunflint Iron Formation
Sophia Roosth
Yale University
Monday, March 23, 2026, 3:45 pm EDT
Blumenbach’s Fossils: Teaching Extinction in 18th-century Göttingen
Jeremy Schneider
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