Working Groups

Geoff Belknap, National Museum of Scotland

Seminar

Antara Chatterjee, "Embodied and Gendered Experiences of Illness: Some Fictional Representations of Tagore and Manik Bandyopadhyay"

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"

Meeting Topic:  How can we measure or identify colours, and why does terminology matter?

Nuance: TBA

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

Kine Angelo (Department of Architecture and Technology, NTNU, Norway) on colour reference systems in architectural practice, using the NCS as an example

David Briggs (Painter, Art Educator and Researcher)  on colour attributes in painting 

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 type: Chapter Workshop

Speaker: Dr. Matti Leprêtre 

Description: TBA

Cameron Daddis

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

Seminar with Rose Byfleet on the medical aspects of perfume.

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

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"

Meeting Topic:  TBA 

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

Meeting Organizer: Elizabeth

Magdalena Grüner, University of Southern California, paper title TBA

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

Michael Barany (Edinburgh): Michael Barany is Senior Lecturer in History of Science at the University of Edinburgh and researches and teaches the history and culture of modern science and mathematics. https://mbarany.com.

Theriac: Beyond the Recipe (Roundtable)

Speakers: Danuta Raj, Barbara Splendore, and Katarzyna Pękacka-Falkowska

Description: TBA

Meeting to be rescheduled due to holiday