Working Groups

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. The panelists of this session are Professors Michael Barany and Gisela Mateos. Below you can find a brief bio of them, as well as the abstracts of their talks. Please check Professor Mateos' paper before the session.

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

Description: TBA

Forests and/as Infrastructure

William Deringer (MIT), "Compound Interest Corrected: Discounting and the Mathematical Imagination" (Chapter 2 of The Formula That Rules Our Future: A History of Discounting).

William Deringer is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research examines the history of quantification and the authority of mathematical reasoning within economic, political, and public life.

Andrés Salas

Katharine Whitman presents The History, Identification and Preservation of Photographs on Glass 

Katharine is a photograph conservator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, Canada is writing a Getty Conservation Institute book! 

Peter Murray Jones, ‘Remedy books and religious houses in England in the later Middle Ages’ 

Meeting to be rescheduled due to holiday

Dilip K Das, "Configuring Spaces of Contagion."

Closing ceremony and final reflections.

Conveners of the group.

Cristián Simonetti, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

"Grounds of history: ice, soil and concrete"

Teaching Methods Using Collections and Their Ecologies

(more info soon)

Maria Zarifi, "Epidemic Environments: Air, Uncertainty, and State Power on the Greek Island of Poros, 1837"

Laura Lenzi, Japan After Dark (Cambridge 2026), chapters 1, 3. Skim intro if you can. See the book's TOC here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/japan-after-dark/3149361D47CB1F1D331909733A694D0E

Kyle Olson, Washington University in St. Louis

"Curriculum Design for Collections-Based Research Training"

TEACHING

In conversation with Fritz Davis (Purdue) and Stephen Weldon (Oklahoma).

Seminar with Dorit Brixius (Dresden University of Technology) on "Crafting Care: French Noblewomen, Cosmetics, Creativity and Knowledge Exchange in the Grand Siècle".

Joan Leopold