Working Groups

COALITION BUILDING

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

Please read the following in preparation for the meeting!

Science for the People Steering Committee, "Defending Science: For Whom, By What Means, Toward What Ends?"

https://scienceforthepeople.org/2025/04/07/defending-science-sftp-statement/

Mia Mingus, "Pods: The Building Blocks of Transformative Justice & Collective Care"

Perfume as Prophylactic Medicine in Grand Ducal Medici Tuscany 

Rose Byfleet

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

How Does Astronomy Impact Our Understanding of Environment?  How Does Environment Impact Our Understanding of Astronomy?: Examples and Discussion

Sarah J. Reynolds, University of Indianapolis

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. This session will feature talks from Professor Breno Arsioli Moura and Dr. Matthieu Hussion.

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"

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

Work-in-Progress Meeting with Valeriya Chasova.
Reading: "Scientific Authorship is Not a Question for Sociology: In Defence of iHPS"

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."

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.

In this session, we will read and discuss the introduction to the recently published Latin American Communication Theories: From Origins to Contemporary Approaches (edited by Carlos A. Scolari, Sandra Valdettaro and Leonarda García-Jiménez), along with the volume’s closing chapter: the editors’ interview with Raúl Fuentes Navarro.

Theriac: Beyond the Recipe (Roundtable)

Speakers: Danuta Raj, Barbara Splendore, and Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska

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