Working Groups

Antara Chatterjee, "Embodied and Gendered Experiences of Illness: Some Fictional Representations of Tagore and Manik Bandyopadhyay"

Probing Gravity: Astronomy's Use in Testing Relativity 

Discussion of chapters from Testing Einstein: One Hundred Years of Experimental Relativity.  

Led by Connemara Doran.   

Note: This book is open access and may be reached through the link above.  

Behind the collections: a conversation with the Archivist.

In this session, speakers will share their experiences as archivists and reflect on the essential role they play in supporting historical research.

Elizabeth Kata (IAEA): Elizabeth Kata is the Unit Head of the Archives Unit at the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. She received her Master's in Historical Research, Historical Auxiliary Sciences and Archival Studies from the Austrian Institute of Historical Research at the University of Vienna.

Thomas Simpson, University of Warwick

"Knowing Earth through ice: frozen matter and planetary sciences before ESS"

Meeting Topic:  How can we measure or identify colours, and why does terminology matter?

Nuance: TBA

A series of short talks about the science and art of color description featuring:

Kine Angelo (Department of Architecture and Technology, NTNU, Norway) on colour reference systems in architectural practice, using the NCS as an example

David Briggs (Painter, Art Educator and Researcher)  on colour attributes in painting 

David E. Dunning (Smithsonian), TBA.

Speaker
Alan Sokal
Professor of Mathematics, University College London (UCL)
Professor Emeritus of Physics, New York University (NYU)

Presentation
“When Science and Politics Collide: Lysenkoism and Communist Scientists in Britain, France and Italy”

Pedro Afonso Cristovão dos Santos, Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana, "The Sargasso Sea and the 'Discovery' of the Americas: 19th Century Transnational Debates on Nautical History and Historical Geography"

Challenges and possibilities of working in a Museum.

In this session, speakers will talk about the aspects and challenges of working in a Museum.

Presentation Title: Two Apothecaries at a Crossroads: Medicinal Plants and the Diverging Futures of Pharmacy, 1880–1939

Speaker: Dr. Matti Leprêtre, Fulbright Scholar at New York University and a historian of science and pharmacy. He received his PhD in History of Science from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in 2026. 

Cameron Daddis

(PhD Candidate - History of Science, Medicine, and TechnologyUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison)

COALITION BUILDING

TBA

Seminar with Rose Byfleet on the medical aspects of perfume.

Topic: Archaeoastronomy

Digital humanities and AI: use and limits as methodological tools.

In this session, speakers will introduce the area of digital humanities. They will also talk about the challenges of this area for doing research.

Giovanna Di Rosario (Polimi).

Alina Bykova, Stanford University, Paper Title TBA

Mikhail Moosa, "The Making of Racial Ecology: Sanitation, Segregation, and Housing in Johannesburg, 1900-1920"

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"

Meeting Topic:  TBA 

Nuance: Nuala Caomhánach (Geneva Graduate Institute) on dyes for staining plant cells and Queer scientists

Meeting Organizer: Elizabeth

Magdalena Grüner, University of Southern California, paper title TBA