Working Groups

Yovanna Pineda, "Public Health and the Urban Waters of the Riachuelo in Dock Sud, Buenos Aires City"

Sarah Finn (Talk Title TBA)

Deren Ertas (Harvard University) 

"From the Mine to the Market: A History of Silver in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Empire"

Robert Edwards (UC San Diego / Irvine) 

"Anticolonial Methods in the History of Linguistic Anthropology "

A. Blum, D. Brill - "Tokyo Wheeler or the Epistemic Preconditions of the Renaissance of Relativity" (2020)

Primary Source: (Re)Translation of John Wheeler’s Tokyo Lecture "Discussion on the Problems of Elementary Particle Theory" (1954), which is part of the attachment of the above paper.

Guest: Alexander Blum

Leib Celnik on  "History" and "Polemics" of Goethe's Farbenlehre 

We will be looking at (i.e., reading) portions of Goethe that are not or have only recently been translated into English. 

Our goals include a discussion of what this information adds to understanding of Goethe and contemporary color theories. 

... and may include discussion of a separate reading/translation group..

Nuance: TBA

Organizer: Sarah

Banji Chona (Lusaka): tbc

"Palatino 586: A medieval Occitan health manual"

Benedetta Mariani (UEA)

Commentator: TBC

Brian Leech, American Popular Coal-ture: Mining Movies and Sad Songs in the American Imagination

Divya Kumar-Dumas (University of Maryland)

Metal, Matter, and Meaning: Toward a Textual and Scientific History of the Sumhuram Yakṣī

Aijie Shi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Life History of Laminaria japonica in the Northwest Pacific”

Speaker: Ryan A. Kashanipour, University of Arizona

Title: Epidemics and Epistemologies: Experiencing Illness in Colonial Yucatán

Alexander Silaen

Rajarshi Sengupta (IIT Kanpur)

From the eerie vision of the owl to the radiant vision of man: Study and conservation-restoration proposal of three tri-color carbon prints by Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal, c.1907-1912, by Isaak Cecchetto González

Abstract:

A discussion with José Alberto Nochebuena, author of Obra Oculta: Historia Política y Artífices Del Sistema de Drenaje Profundo de La Ciudad de México (Fundación ICA, 2025). 

Amy Woodson-Boulton (Loyola Marymount University), "The Question of Kinship: Totemism, Animal Ancestors, and the Evolution of Culture"

Speaker: Camille-Mary Sharp

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Visual Arts /Center for Sustainable Curating, Western University -- https://cmsharp.ca/ 

Session title: Petro-museologies

Manon Raffard, "'We may perhaps avoid the plague, but die from phenol': Phenol disinfection in French cities during the 1884 cholera epidemic"

Al Coppola (John Jay College, CUNY)/Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University)