Working Groups

Joanna Paxton Federico, "Finding the Center(s): Insitutionalizing the Science of Violence Prevention at the CDC (1977-1992)
 

Paper manuscript workshop:

Chuck Wooldridge, "Renewing a Temple's Relationship to the Gods: Renovating Ciji Temple, 1917-1937." 

Reading:

• Ronald R. Kline, "Cybernetics in Crisis," in The Cybernetics Moment : Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age, ch. 7 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017).
• Ranulph Glanville, "A (Cybernetic) Musing: Invisibility and Silence," Cybernetics And Human Knowing 13, no. 1 (2006): 71–80.

Both are available in the attached zip file.
 

John Tresch, The Warburg Institute

With commentary from Judy Kaplan (Science History Institute) and Cameron Brinitzer (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

Excerpts from Cosmograms: How To Do Things with Worlds

Please note: The main reading is Chapter 2! John has also shared the Introduction and Chapter 1 for anyone who would like some extra context or a sense of what the book is like more generally. These are completely optional and can be skimmed or skipped.

 
"'Visual Prescription' in Yinshan Zhengyao: Image and Cure in Premodern and Modern China"
Di Wang (Oxford)
Commentator: TBC

• Syllabus share! What should be on a syllabus for energy history and energy-related topics? 

Guido Bacciagaluppi and Elise Crull on Schrödinger's EPR correspondence

Chapter 3 from `The Einstein Paradox The Debate on Nonlocality and Incompleteness in 1935' (CUP, 2024) 

Guest experts: Guido Bacciagaluppi and Elise Crull

Patrick Syme’s Field Guide to Color: Past, Present and Future

                        NOTE:  Attached is a page of links to online copies of Syme's publication, and to high resolution copies of 4 plates from the original.
                                        Paul Smith kindly contributed the latter.

Content and Submission of Book Proposals

Topics: Should I turn my dissertation into a book?; How to find the right press; how to approach editors; how to outline a book proposal; collective authorship and editing; why book series.

Speaker: W. Patrick McCray is Professor at the History Department at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA, and a series editor for Johns Hopkins University Press.

Speaker
Prof. Gracyelle Costa Ferreira
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Learn more: Prof. Gracyelle Costa Ferreira - GPSankofa
Presentation:
Details coming soon
Suggested Readings:

 
Methods in the Material Histories of South Asia: Snapshot-presentations and Discussion
 
Join us for a special meeting! We invite you to use an object or an image to introduce your work in the material history of South Asia in a snapshot presentation. These presentations will be a springboard into a discussion on methods in the Material Histories of South Asia. Pre-circulated readings TBD.
 

General discussion about the future of the Working Group.

Antony Adler, Carleton College, "Afterlives of Interspecies Collisions: Giant Squid and Knowledge of the Sea"

In this session, we will read and discuss Pete Simonson’s draft preface to Mariano Zarowsky, From the Chilean Laboratory to World-Communication: Armand Mattelart’s Intellectual Journey/Del laboratorio chileno a la comunicación mundo: Un itinerario intelectual de Armand Mattelart. Simonson’s preface will be published in the English-language edition, to be published this year open access by mediastudies.press.

Ahmed Ragab

Andrea Gaytan Cuesta and Anne Pfister - University of North Florida will present: Nocheztli & Chapulines: Insect Imaginaries and Commodification in Oaxaca, Mexico followed by a discussion.

Elena Schaa - "Heisenberg's Experience of the Matrix Mechanics on Helgoland." 

Philip Scranton, Rutgers University

"The Auto Parts Maze in the US and the USSR, 1946-1980" 

This is a chapter of Prof. Scranton's book manuscript Spare Parts: A Global History of a Modern Problem, forthcoming from Johns Hopkins in 2026. 

Abstract:

Catarina Madruga (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin), Archival collections and specimens from German “Kamerun" in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin