Working Groups

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 Miller, University of Toronto

TBD

Moderator: 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).

Seminar with Rose Byfleet on the medical aspects of perfume.

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, Paper Title TBA

Dr. Brad Scott, Researcher at Queen Mary University of London, and Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum, London

(title tbd)

Mikhail Moosa, "The Making of Racial Ecology: Sanitation, Segregation, and Housing in Johannesburg, 1900-1920"

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"

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

Francesca Tancini (PiCoBoo Project) on 'Walter Crane and Edmund Evans: the two faces of colour-printing for all'

Nuance: Nuala Caomhánach (Geneva Graduate Institute) on dyes for staining plant cells and Queer scientists

Meeting Organizer: Elizabeth

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, paper title TBA