Working Groups

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: TBA

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

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

Colour Attributes in Painting,
with David Briggs (Painter, Art Educator and Researcher)

David E. Dunning (Smithsonian), TBA.

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

Cameron Daddis

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

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

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"

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

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