Working Groups

Alexander Silaen (University of Vienna)

Colonial Entomology and Labor Relations in Sumatra, 1880–1930 of the Gregorian Calendar

Robert Edwards (UC San Diego / Irvine) 

"Anticolonial Methods in the History of Linguistic Anthropology "

Kelcey Gibbons (History, Anthropology, Science, Technology, and Society, MIT), "Fugitive Cartographies and The Slave at the End of the World," a chapter from the dissertation-in-progress, Networks of Black Power: An Intellectual, Social, and Material History of African American Engineering Education and Professionalization 1830 – 1965. 

Rajarshi Sengupta (IIT Kanpur)

Hyperrealism in James Forbes’ Studies and Chintz Textiles: Through Research and Practice 

From the eerie vision of the owl to the radiant vision of man: Study and conservation-restoration proposal of three tri-color carbon prints by Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, c.1907-1912, by Isaak Cecchetto González

Abstract:

A discussion with José Alberto Nochebuena, author of Obra Oculta: Historia Política y Artífices Del Sistema de Drenaje Profundo de La Ciudad de México (Fundación ICA, 2025). 

Amy Woodson-Boulton (Loyola Marymount University), "The Question of Kinship: Totemism, Animal Ancestors, and the Evolution of Culture"

Speaker: Camille-Mary Sharp

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Visual Arts /Center for Sustainable Curating, Western University -- https://cmsharp.ca/ 

Session title: Petro-museologies

Manon Raffard, "'We may perhaps avoid the plague, but die from phenol': Phenol disinfection in French cities during the 1884 cholera epidemic"

Manuscript workshop: Maya Stiller, Sensing the Buddha Land: Architecture, Sound, and Devotion in Late Chosǒn Korea part.

Al Coppola (John Jay College, CUNY)/Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University)

Color in antiquity

In this meeting, we will explore color in antiquity through recent scholarship, both from the material and theoretical perspectives. The eight invited speakers will briefly present current work-in-progress or recent results of their work on different aspects of archelogical investigation on color, followed by a final discussion.

Dr. Omid Oudbashi, University of Gothenburg, Color technology in Ancient Iran.

Banji Chona (Lusaka): tbc

Remi Gandoin, “Windpower Siting in Denmark”

The 60th JAS-Bio meeting will be held in Gilman Hall on Johns Hopkins University's Homewood campus, April 10-11, 2026. 

This year's organizers are:

New Methods in Mining Studies II

Environmental Lifeworlds of Extraction in Africa: Methodological Insights by Iva Peša (University of Groningen)

Speaker: JJ R. Strange, PhD Candidate at University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: Crisis in the Garden: How War and Environmental Loss Transformed Chinese Pharmaceutical Research (1935-1955)

Format: Presentation followed by Q&A

*Note Special Date*

"How to Draw the Buddha and Dissect a Corpse: Iconometry and Anatomy in Early-Modern Tibet"

Briana Brightly (Harvard University)

Commentator: Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim

Jan Gerris (University of Ghent)

Tandulaveyāliya - An ancient Jain philosophical reflection on life

Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University) and Sam Robinson (University of York), TBA chapter from their in-progress book on the Discovery Investigations.