Working Groups

Andrés Salas

Katharine Whitman presents The History, Identification and Preservation of Photographs on Glass 

Katharine is a photograph conservator at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto, Canada is writing a Getty Conservation Institute book! 

Peter Murray Jones, ‘Remedy books and religious houses in England in the later Middle Ages’ 

Meeting to be rescheduled due to holiday

Dilip K Das, "Configuring Spaces of Contagion."

Closing ceremony and final reflections.

Conveners of the group.

Cristián Simonetti, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

"Grounds of history: ice, soil and concrete"

Teaching Methods Using Collections and Their Ecologies

(more info soon)

Maria Zarifi, "Epidemic Environments: Air, Uncertainty, and State Power on the Greek Island of Poros, 1837"

Laura Lenzi, Japan After Dark (Cambridge 2026), chapters 1, 3. Skim intro if you can. See the book's TOC here: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/japan-after-dark/3149361D47CB1F1D331909733A694D0E

Kyle Olson, Washington University in St. Louis

"Curriculum Design for Collections-Based Research Training"

TEACHING

In conversation with Fritz Davis (Purdue) and Stephen Weldon (Oklahoma).

Seminar with Dorit Brixius (Dresden University of Technology) on "Crafting Care: French Noblewomen, Cosmetics, Creativity and Knowledge Exchange in the Grand Siècle".

John Henderson (Birkbeck, University of London) Patience, Dedication and Hard Work: Nurses and the Care of the Sick Poor in Early Modern Italian Hospitals

Guest expert: Rocco Gaudenzi. 
Reading: Modern Physics and Philosophy East and West: Nishida, Bohr, Yukawa

Meeting Topic:  "Chemistry, Commerce and Cobalt Blue" Discussion of a work-in-progress
                         Author: Charlotte Abney Salomon
                         Commentator: Ernst Homburg, Professor Emeritus, Maastricht University.

Nuance: Lydia Pyne on ochres

Meeting Organizer: Sarah

NEW BOOKS IN CONVERSATION

Lan Li (JHU) on Body Maps
and
Holly Fletcher (UCL) on Body Size in Early Modern Germany

Cecilia Slane (University of Oklahoma), “Fertilizer and Fuel: Scientific Explorations of Peat in the 19thCentury United States”

NOTE SPECIAL DATE

Topic: History of Astronomy and Exobiology as a guide for understanding scientific discovery (and disappointments)

Morgan Hardy, University of Tennessee, paper title TBA