Working Groups

Edward Akintola Hubbard (darkmatter collective): Vegetal Intimacies

Oceans HSTM Book Club: The Sequel! 

Alison Glassie (Northeastern University) will lead us in a discussion of Ned Beauman's novel Venomous Lumpsucker. 

The book should be available at all the usual places, and probably at your local public library.  

Hoaxes and Frauds: Contested Color Photography Processes around 1900
By Hanin Hannouch 

*NOTE SPECIAL TIME*

Meeting Topic:  We will workshop an essay by Giulia Simonini about Iridescence.
                          Commentator Anne-Valérie Dulac and the audience

Nuance: TBA

The essay will be available soon!

Meeting Organizer: Giulia & Sarah

Luc Wodzicki (Freie University Berlin): Plants as Evidence: Botanical Ecologies and Reform Landscapes in the 18th-Century Val di Chiana

Ali Glassie, Northeastern University, Syllabus Assessment Workshop: "Ocean Literacies" 

Opening ceremony: roundtable on DHST activities and its comissions.

In this session, representatives of different DHST Commissions will speak about the role and activities DHST is carrying out.

Antara Chatterjee, "Embodied and Gendered Experiences of Illness: Some Fictional Representations of Tagore and Manik Bandyopadhyay"

Behind the collections: a conversation with the Archivist.

In this session, speakers will share their experiences as archivists and reflect on the essential role they play in supporting historical research.

Elizabeth Kata (IAEA): Elizabeth Kata is the Unit Head of the Archives Unit at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. She received her Master's in Historical Research, Historical Auxiliary Sciences and Archival Studies from the Austrian Institute of Historical Research at the University of Vienna.

Thomas Simpson, University of Warwick

"Knowing Earth through ice: frozen matter and planetary sciences before ESS"

Meeting Topic:  TBA 

Nuance: TBA

Meeting Organizer: 

Pedro Afonso Cristovão dos Santos, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, "The Sargasso Sea and the 'Discovery' of the Americas: 19th Century Transnational Debates on Nautical History and Historical Geography"

Challenges and possibilities of working in a Museum.

In this session, speakers will talk about the aspects and challenges of working in a Museum.

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

Giovanna Di Rosario (Polimi).

Matthieu Huson (CNRS/PSL).

Alina Bykova, Stanford University, Paper Title TBA

Meeting Topic:  TBA 

Nuance: TBA

Meeting Organizer: 

Magdalena Grüner, University of Southern California, paper title TBA

North-South knowledge exchange: critical thinking and new perspectives.

This session will explore the processes, as well as the tensions, of knowledge exchange between the Global North and Global South

Michael Barany (Edinburgh): Michael Barany is Senior Lecturer in History of Science at the University of Edinburgh and researches and teaches the history and culture of modern science and mathematics. https://mbarany.com.

Meeting to be rescheduled due to holiday