Working Groups

Steven French "From a Lost History to a New Future: Is a Phenomenological Approach to Quantum Physics Viable?"

With a primary source: London and Bauer "The Theory of Observation in Quantum Mechanics"

Kilian Laclavetine (Centre for Research and Restoration of Museums of France), on 'Study of the Manufacture of 15th Century Italian Tarot Cards with a Non-Invasive Methodology'

"Orifices: Surgery and sodomy in early modern Rome"

Silvia De Renzi (Open University)

Robert Lifset, “A City Built By and On Oil: The March of the Mud hogs and Derricks in Depression-Era Oklahoma City”

Christèle Barois (CESAH)

Embryogenesis narratives and the history of ancient Indian medicine

Sonya Schoenberger, Stanford University

Speaker: Lauren Thompson, Kennesaw State University

Title: TBA

Taina Syrjämaa

Tracing ticks and a multispecies network in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Finland

Ticks have probably lived for centuries in the Finnish territory. However, their exact distribution was not mapped before the 1950s and only few overt traces of them exist in historical sources. For example, oral history collections contain hardly any reference directly to them. My search for ticks in rural nineteenth and early twentieth century Finland started with the dilemma of ticks’ invisibility in the then society.

Geoff Bil (University of Victoria)

NOTE SPECIAL TIME

Speaker: Thomas Biskup 

Researcher, leader of the project "A testimony to ecclesiastical natural history and an archive of historical biodiversity. 
The Herbarium Ruperti (1700) of the Herzog August Bibliothek" (Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany)

Amy Malventano, "Urban Environmentalism and Waste Management Reform in Early Twentieth-Century Louisville"

NOTE SPECIAL DATE

A Roundtable Discussion to Launch: 

Tillmann Taape, Crafting Medicine: Artisans, Knowledge, and the Common Man in Hieronymus Brunschwig's Books on Surgery and Distillation (Chicago: 2025)

and

Jack Hartnell, Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image (Princeton: 2025)

moderated by

Pamela H. Smith (Columbia) 

Reading seminar with Erin Griffey (University of Auckland) on her book Facing Decay: Beauty, Aging and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe (Penn State University Press, 2025)

New Approaches to Mining

Bernhard Hurch (Graz)

Paper: Christoph Lehner, Jos Uffink, "Schrödinger, Szilard, and the emergence of the EPR argument" (forthcoming)

Primary Source: Schrödinger, "The Present Status of Quantum Mechanics" (1935)

Guests: Christoph Lehner, Jos Uffink (tbc)

Presenter: Guillermo Pupo on trade in anatto in European markets

Commentator: Deirdre Moore, European University Institute

Nuance:  Silas Edwards on chromolithography, aniline inks and butterfly collecting

Organizer: Sarah

Mistura Allison (Villa Romana) and Helena Uambembe (Berlin): tbc

Michael Adamson, “Lewis Stone and the “Destruction of Venice Beach”: Contesting Petroleum Extraction as a Beneficial Use of the Southern California Shoreline

Sonia Wigh (University of Cambridge)

The Lone Pregnant Body: Illustrating Feminine Forms in Manṣūr’s Anatomy