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New Working Group: Contagion, Culture & the Global South
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The Consortium working group on Contagion, Culture and the Global South will hold its first meeting on on Tuesday, May 19, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT. Log in to www.chstm.org, and set your time zone for your local time.
The working group on Contagion, Culture and the Global South offers a creative platform to discuss the historical, social, and cultural underpinnings of contagion across different texts and contexts. Although contagion has garnered significant attention from fields related to public health and even the history of science, technology and medicine, the working group opens newer pathways to discuss how contagion interacts with indigenous cultures and communities across the globe, with an added emphasis on the Global South.
The first meeting will feature:
"Viral Vernaculars: Mediating Contagion, Care, and Communication in the Global South"
by Gaana Jayagopalan, Indian Institute of Management Jammu.
This group was accepted in last year's call for new groups. To propose a new group for next year, see the next news item below.
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Propose a New Working Group for 2026-2027
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The Consortium invites proposals for new online working groups focusing on specialized topics in the history of science, technology or medicine.
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.
Applications are due no later than May 15, 2026.
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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 your correct local time for each meeting.
History of Anthropology
Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
"Invention and Federal Ethnology in the US"
Henry Schmidt, University of California, Berkeley
Health and the Urban Environment
Thursday, May 7, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
"Catching and Curing the Plague in the Multispecies City"
Guy Erez, New York University
Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health
Friday, May 8, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT
"Medicine at the Mines in Seventeenth-Century Sumatra"
Wenrui Zhao, University of Utah
Commentator: Tina Asmussen, Ruhr University Bochum
Minescapes
Monday, May 11, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EDT
"Community Care and Environmental Health in the Early Extractocene"
Guy Geltner, Monash University
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