Working Groups

Raúl Aranovich (UC Davis), "A conceptual history of ergativity"

Elma Brenner (Wellcome Collection) Work in Medieval French Hospitals and Leprosaria

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: Ashank Chandapillai on the problems of color in the history of astronomical photometry.

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

David E. Dunning (Smithsonian), "Mathematical Material Culture: An Introduction to the Mathematics Collection at the National Museum of American History"

Please note that there are no read-ahead materials and this meeting will last from 2-3PM EST.

This week we will be discussing the ethics of photographing violence and how to engage with such images, using Holocaust images as a case study. We will use the following readings to frame this discussion:

Marianne Hirsch and Leo Spitzer, "Incongruous Images: 'Before, during, and after' the Holocaust," History and Theory 48, no. 4 (2009): 9-25. 

Isabel Wollaston, "The Absent, the Partial, and the Iconic in Archival Photographs of the Holocaust," Jewish Culture and History 12, no. 3 (2010): 439-462.

Speaker
Alan Sokal
Professor of Mathematics, University College London (UCL)
Professor Emeritus of Physics, New York University (NYU)

Presentation
“When Science and Politics Collide: Lysenkoism and Communist Scientists in Britain, France and Italy”

Pedro Afonso Cristovão dos Santos, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, "The Sargasso Sea and the 'Discovery' of the Americas: 19th Century Transnational Debates on Nautical History and Historical Geography"

Challenges and possibilities of working in a Museum.

In this session, speakers will talk about the aspects and challenges of working in a Museum.

Presentation Title: Two Apothecaries at a Crossroads: Medicinal Plants and the Diverging Futures of Pharmacy, 1880–1939

Speaker: Dr. Matti Leprêtre, Fulbright Scholar at New York University and a historian of science and pharmacy. He received his PhD in History of Science from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in 2026. 

Roundtable: History and Historiography of Forests Across the Globe

Claudia Leal, Universidad de los Andes

Ian M. Miller, University of Toronto

Adeniyi P. Asiyanbi, University of British Columbia

Moderators: Tomás Bartoletti, Sophie FitzMaurice

SHOT Redux! What we learned at the SHOT meeting

The popular SHOT Redux returns, with our own Ben Gross moderating. Please join us to discuss SHOT's annual meeting, which will have just taken place. This is a chance to discuss highlights and new directions, and to learn what went on if you were not able to attend. This will have been SHOT's first virtual meeting, so please come prepared to discuss the pros and cons of meeting this way.

Cameron Daddis

(PhD Candidate - History of Science, Medicine, and TechnologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison)

Ellen  Carey  presents Women in Colour: Anna Atkins, Color Photography and Those Struck by Light

My research on the origins and history of color photography noticed an absence, prompting a question: “Where would color photography and women practitioners be without the work of Anna Atkins?”

COALITION BUILDING

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

Perfume as Prophylactic Medicine in Grand Ducal Medici Tuscany 

Rose Byfleet

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

Topic: Archaeoastronomy

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.

Giovanna Di Rosario (Polimi).

Alina Bykova, Stanford University, 

"Svalbard is a state of mind: heroism, science and the international Arctic (1920-1939)"