Working Groups

"Reading Repetition: Plague and Medicine in British Geographies of the Islamicate World, 1700–1800"
Enes Yilandiloglu (University of Helsinki)

SHOT Redux! What we learned at the SHOT meeting

The popular SHOT Redux returns, with our own Ben Gross moderating. Please join us to discuss SHOT's annual meeting, which will have just taken place. This is a chance to discuss highlights and new directions, and to learn what went on if you were not able to attend. This will have been SHOT's first virtual meeting, so please come prepared to discuss the pros and cons of meeting this way.

Cameron Daddis, PhD Candidate - History of Science, Medicine, and Technology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

“Bog Man” and the Body in Deep Time: Collecting the Dead in Nineteenth-Century Ireland 

Ellen  Carey  presents Women in Colour: Anna Atkins, Color Photography and Those Struck by Light

My research on the origins and history of color photography noticed an absence, prompting a question: “Where would color photography and women practitioners be without the work of Anna Atkins?”

COALITION BUILDING

In conversation with Dana Simmons (UC Riverside) and Nayanika Ghosh (Duke).

Perfume as Prophylactic Medicine in Grand Ducal Medici Tuscany 

Rose Byfleet

Chinmay Tumbe "The Age of Pandemics, 1817-1920"

Topic: Archaeoastronomy

Digital humanities and AI: use and limits as methodological tools.

In this session, speakers will introduce the area of digital humanities. They will also talk about the challenges of this area for doing research.

Giovanna Di Rosario (Polimi).

Alina Bykova, Stanford University

"Svalbard is a state of mind: heroism, science and the international Arctic (1920-1939)"

Charlotte Williams (University of California, Berkeley), "'Panamania' in Zonian Life: American Identity Through Archaeology’s Social Lives in the US-Panama Canal Zone (1940-1970)"

Dr. Brad Scott, Researcher at Queen Mary University of London, and Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum, London

Privateers, Wrecks and Curiosity: The collections of George Handisyd, surgeon, 1686-92

Mikhail Moosa, "The Making of Racial Ecology: Sanitation, Segregation, and Housing in Johannesburg, 1900-1920"

Dear all,

For our next meeting, we will discuss two articles on transportation and infrastructure, both from the field of archaeology:

Erin McLeary and Myles Chang Matunis, Mütter Museum and Historical Medical Library

"Drawing From the Archive: Exploring the Legacy of a Queer Medical Illustrator and her Art"

NOTE SPECIAL TIME

Kathryn Tanaka (University of Hyogo) The Fruit of Illness: Politics, Patient Labor and Poetry in Twentieth Century Japanese Leprosaria

Francesca Tancini (PiCoBoo Project, Newcastle University, University of Bologna) on 'Walter Crane and Edmund Evans: the two faces of colour-printing for all'

Joint Session with the Technology Working Group

Danielle Wallner presents a chapter from her dissertation Computing at the Periphery: Novosibirsk and the Development of Computer Science, 1960–1991

Please read the attached chapter for the meeting.

Hamza Diman (Bundeswehr Universität Munich), "From Firewood to Charcoal: Socio-Technical Energy Transitions in Domestic Cooking Practices in Lomé, Togo"

Magdalena Grüner, University of Southern California Society of Fellows in the Humanities, "On Watery Ground: Picturing Seeing in the Dark."