The Consortium invites scholars to join our topical working groups for challenging and collegial discussion of interesting publications in their fields and of each others’ works-in-progress.
Each group meets monthly. All interested scholars are welcome to participate via online video conferencing.
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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
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.
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).
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
"Conr. Gesneri Tigurini, medicinæ et philosophiae professoris in Schola Tigurina, Historiæ animalium liber III : qui est De auium natura" by Konrad Gesner.
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