Working Groups

Dr. Brad Scott, Researcher at Queen Mary University of London, and Scientific Associate at the Natural History Museum, London

Privateers, Wrecks and Curiosity: The collections of George Handisyd, surgeon, 1686-92

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

Dear all,

For our next meeting, we will discuss two articles on transportation and infrastructure, both from the field of archaeology:

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"

Title: Using STS Theories to Bridge HST and Art History: Or, How to Talk About Public Monuments with Too Many Acronyms

Allison Bigelow (Notre Dame)

NOTE SPECIAL TIME

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

Work-in-Progress Meeting with Valeriya Chasova.
Reading: "Scientific Authorship is Not a Question for Sociology: In Defence of iHPS"

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. Danielle Wallner's presentation will be followed by a commentary by Ksenia Tatarchenko.

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. The panelists of this session are Professors Michael Barany and Gisela Mateos. Below you can find a brief bio of them, as well as the abstracts of their talks. Please check Professor Mateos' paper before the session.

In this session, we will read and discuss the introduction to the recently published Latin American Communication Theories: From Origins to Contemporary Approaches (edited by Carlos A. Scolari, Sandra Valdettaro and Leonarda García-Jiménez), along with the volume’s closing chapter: the editors’ interview with Raúl Fuentes Navarro.

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’