Working Groups

Introductory session: 

a) Meet the conveners and the participants

b) Discuss the working group's orientation to the launch of a new journal, Psychedelic Cultures

c) Discuss plan for the year

Ali Glassie, Northeastern University, Syllabus Assessment Workshop: "Ocean Literacies" 

In this session, we will read and discuss Andrew Williams's working paper, “The ILET Seminar of 1977 and the Entanglement of Academic and Political Networks in the Era of NWICO.“

Welcome Back

Hosts/Speakers: Professors Kelly O'Donnell & Lucas Richert 

The most recent issue of HoPP* focused on new histories of "community pharmacy in American perspective." This session will start by focusing on the three Open Access articles: 

Global Forests: Goals and Objectives for the Working Group

The co-conveners will introduce the working group, speak to the plans and goals for the group, and invite suggestions for possible themes and future speakers. 

Tomás Bartoletti, ETH Zürich

Sophie FitzMaurice, Cambridge University

Tania Munz, Forest History Society

Reviel Netz (Stanford University), discussing the begining (introduction, props. 1 +2) of Archimedes' The Method

Speaker
Robert Wegner
Researcher, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC/Fiocruz)
Professor, Graduate Program in History of Sciences and Health, Fiocruz

Presentation
Title and abstract will be announced soon.

About Robert

Robert Wegner holds a Ph.D. in Sociology and is a researcher at the Department of Research in History of Sciences and Health at Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC/Fiocruz), where he also teaches in the Graduate Program in History of Sciences and Health.

Richard Luke Fallon and Grace Exley, University of Cambridge 

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.

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

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"