Working Groups

Community Care and Environmental Health in the Early Extractocene by Guy Geltner (Monash University)

Amanda Harris (Sydney)

Triangulating the relationships between diaspora speaker communities, dispersed cultural heritage, and modern digital archives of Oceania

Communities of practice are becoming increasingly popular in medical worlds and UK funding landscapes. They take the form of collaborative groups, whereby participants are encouraged to learn from one another through ongoing dialogue, troubleshooting, and reflections on practice. 

On oral history interviews. 

Guest experts: Luisa Bonolis (MPWIG) and William Thomas (AIP). 

The session will be dedicated to the concept of oral history interviews, as a resource in the history and philosophy of physics. The attached file includes two selected interviews conducted by each of our guest experts. 
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt on 'Color, Cloth, Collation: Previewing  "Premodern Printing on Fabric"'

Kevin Murungi (32 Degrees East) and Luca Tenreira (European University Institute): 'Bomba La Mafuta' : Textile Memory and Multi-Species Entanglements Along the East African Oil Corridor

Speaker
Marcelo Monetti Pavani
M.A. in Science Education, University of São Paulo (PIEC-USP)
Affiliated with LaHBE-USP

Presentation
“Spencer, Lamarck e a angústia da influência”
[“Spencer, Lamarck, and the Anxiety of Influence”]

At this meeting, we will be discussing the ethical challenges of Generative AI for historians. We will discuss selections from the 2023 AHR forum on AI, as well as these articles: 

https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-history/artificial-intelligence-a-warning-for-history/ 

Snapshot Presentations!

“Stopping Menstruation in Jainism"
Ruth Westoby (Oxford Center for Hindu Studies) 

"Are plants conscious? Vegetal 'being' in the Caraka Saṃhitā”
Pushya A. Gautam (National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India) 

TBD
Gayathri Iyer 

“Ancient Indian Healing Systems: Insights from Jivaka’s Practice"
Siddharth R. Dawane (Amity University, Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, India) 

Rescheduled Seminar with Victoria Munn (University of Auckland) on Early Modern Hair Dye Recipes

We will not convene a meeting this month. Thank you to all who participated this past year. We will be in contact with everyone on our member list about ideas for our next steps. 

-- Stephen and Arvid

Gaana Jayagopalan, "Viral Vernaculars: Mediating Contagion, Care, and Communication in the Global South."

Seth Stein LeJacq, Hunter College, The City University of New York, "Hidden Crimes: Sexual Violence and Historical Memory of Britain’s Navy in the Age of Sail"

In this session, we will read and discuss Elena Hristova's draft chapter, “Audiences: White Working-Class Men in the Scientific Imagination.”
 

Title: Meet the Editors

Speakers: Kelly O’Donnell, Towson University & Lucas Richert, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mary Mendoza (Assistant Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University) Deadly Divide: How Insects, Pathogens, and People defied the U.S.-Mexico Border

When most people picture the US-Mexico border, they think of walls, fences, concrete, and wire. But in this first history of how the environment influenced physical boundary-making between the two nations, Mary E. Mendoza focuses on how the natural world shaped ideas about race, gender, and security. In so doing, she unearths surprising origins of the modern-day immigration debate.
 

Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke (Dresden University)

Designing Photographic Films with Robert L. Shanebrook

Designing photographic films requires identifying the subjective tastes of photographers then making compromises while applying the limited technical tools available to the film designer. Using Kodak PORTRA Film as an example, subjective image evaluation will be described and then the technology that is applied to design and then manufacture the film. 

Seminar on Beautifying Practices in Arabic Medieval Medical Compendia with Anna Gili (University of Padua): Medical Beauty Prescriptions. A reading of al-Rāzī's Kitāb al-Manṣūrī and al-Maǧūsī's Kitāb al-Malakī

Meenakshi Srihari, "Talking Microbes: Why Comics?"

From twentieth-century cartoons in Punch that cast microbes as social and political actors, to manga adaptations imagining the body as an autocratic regime of cellular labour, the microbe has a surprisingly long and charged history of visual representation. This talk traces that history to ask: what does the comics form uniquely offer to stories of contagion and infection that other narrative modes cannot?