Working Groups

Joint Session with the Technology Working Group

Danielle Wallner presents a chapter from her dissertation Computing at the Periphery: Novosibirsk and the Development of Computer Science, 1960–1991

Please read the attached chapter for the meeting.

Hamza Diman (Bundeswehr Universität Munich), "From Firewood to Charcoal: Socio-Technical Energy Transitions in Domestic Cooking Practices in Lomé, Togo"

Magdalena Grüner, University of Southern California Society of Fellows in the Humanities, "On Watery Ground: Picturing Seeing in the Dark."

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

Forests and/as Infrastructure

William Deringer (MIT), "Compound Interest Corrected: Discounting and the Mathematical Imagination" (Chapter 2 of The Formula That Rules Our Future: A History of Discounting).

William Deringer is an Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research examines the history of quantification and the authority of mathematical reasoning within economic, political, and public life.

DIFFERENT MEETING TIME FOR NOVEMBER 2026!

Joint Session with the Computing History Working Group

Thursday, November 12, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm CST

Danielle Wallner presents a chapter from her dissertation Computing at the Periphery: Novosibirsk and the Development of Computer Science, 1960–1991

Please see the draft chapter, below.

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, "Narrating Spaces of Contagion."

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

Closing ceremony and final reflections.

Conveners of the group.

Cristián Simonetti, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, paper title TBA

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"

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).