Working Groups

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Conversation with Editors: Hyungsub Choi and Timothy Stoneman, History and Technology.

Join us in welcoming Hyungsub Choi (Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea) and Timothy Stoneman (Georgia Tech-Europe, France), in-coming editors of the important journal History and Technology. We will discuss the current publishing climate in history of technology, and their vision for the journal History and Technology, one of the leading venues of publication in the field.

Dr Kimberly Glassman, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and Dr Richard Fallon, Sedgwick Museum, Earth Sciences, Cambridge

The Natural History Humanities at Cambridge: Unearthing Women in the Archives

SNEAK PEAK INTO JANINE's NEW BOOK!

The Emergence of Color Photography in Britain, 1906 – 1932: Exhibitions, Society and the Press with Janine Freeston

Introduction to Science Studies and the Long Eighteenth Century

This introductory session will set the foundation for the year to come. Participants will have the opportunity to meet new colleagues, learn about new research, and contribute ideas for meeting topics.

Agenda:

First meeting of the Engineering Book and Journal Club.

We'll discuss the book, Vleuten, Erik van der, Ruth Oldenziel, and Mila Davids. Engineering the Future, Understanding the Past: A Social History of Technology. Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

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.

READING CLUB

Fernando Amador II, "Street Showers: A Spatial & Environmental History of the American Fire Hydrant"

This month we are reading something slightly different - a chapter from Guangchen Chen's Collecting Antiquity in Modern China, published this year with University of Chicago Press. The book as a whole looks at how material culture has been used in 20th century China. An open-access version can be found here, where you can read the contents and introduction.

Geoff Belknap, National Museum of Scotland

ARCHIVING

In conversation with Laura Stark (Vanderbilt), Adrianna Link (APS), and Peter Sachs Collopy (Caltech).

Seminar with Sean Coughlin (Prague) on "Alchemies of Scent: Five Years of Text, Experiment, Replication"

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

Probing Gravity: Astronomy's Use in Testing Relativity 

Discussion of chapters from Testing Einstein: One Hundred Years of Experimental Relativity.  

Led by Connemara Doran.   

Note: This book is open access and may be reached through the link above.  

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"

Lightning sessions -- 3-10 minutes on your current research. End your remarks with a question you are wrestling with!

Henrique Antunes

Alan Sumler

Paul Gillis-Smith

Jan Potters, Sharpening Philosophical Concepts: Thomas Kuhn and the History of Quantum Physics (forthcoming HOPOS)

Meeting Topic:  How can we measure or identify colours, and why does terminology matter?

Nuance: TBA

A series of short talks about the science and art of color description featuring:

Colour Reference Systems in Architectural Practice, using the NCS as an example, 
with Kine Angelo (Department of Architecture and Technology, NTNU, Norway)

Colour Attributes in Painting,
with David Briggs (Painter, Art Educator and Researcher, Sydney, Australia)