Working Groups

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"

NOTE SPECIAL TIME

Kathryn Tanaka (University of Hyogo) The Fruit of Illness: Politics, Patient Labor and Poetry in Twentieth Century Japanese Leprosaria

Francesca Tancini (PiCoBoo Project, Newcastle University, University of Bologna) on 'Walter Crane and Edmund Evans: the two faces of colour-printing for all'

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), TBA.

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)