Call for Working Group Papers

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The Consortium invites paper proposals for discussion in our working groups. Consortium working groups bring together scholars for monthly meetings in specialized fields related to the history of science, technology and medicine. Meetings are held online, and all interested scholars are welcome. We are currently soliciting paper proposals for the 2023-2024 academic year in the following working groups:

• Aesthetic and Design of Latin American Technology

• Applied Medical History

• Collections and Collecting

• Color Photography in the 19th Century and Early 20th Century: Sciences, Technologies, Empires

• Craft, Technology, and Material Culture in Early Modern Asia

• Disability Studies and Mad Studies

• Earth and Environmental Sciences

• Energy History

• Engineering Studies

• Evolution and Heredity in Brazil

• History and Philosophy of Contemporary Theoretical Physics

• Infectious Disease in the Islamicate World

• Media Studies

• Medieval European Medical Manuscripts

• Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health

• Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine

• Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies, and Aesthetics

• Science Across Regions in Asia

• Science in Early South Asia

• Science, Capitalism, and Knowledge Commodities

• Science, Technology and Medicine in Latin America

• Sound and Technology

• Technology

 
Anyone interested in sharing a draft article, dissertation chapter or book chapter for discussion should submit, as a single PDF, a proposal including: 

• a description of the paper (maximum 500 words)
• what you hope to gain from discussion with the group (maximum 500 words)
• a CV (maximum 3 pages)
• your preference, if any, for when you would like to present your work

Accepted drafts should be at an advanced stage and ready for circulation no later than one month before they are scheduled for discussion.
 
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