DHST IUHPST


These free online workshops are designed to provide early career scholars with soft skills by addressing topics that often fall short in university programs, but which are of general interest and importance. Participants are encouraged to engage in critical reflection on history of science practices in both academic and professional settings. This workshop also aims to help to connect early career history of science practitioners to foster worldwide integration and inclusion of the field.

Some sessions are designed to develop advanced knowledge of academic work environments, some provide insights into professional practices and realities, while others focus on topics that encourage participants to reflect critically on their methods. The sessions will take place on Wednesdays and will last approximately one hour and a half. 

This working group is hosted by the Consortium in collaboration with the Division for the History of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science and Technology. Particular support is given by the Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy (STAND), the Inter-Union Commission on the History and Philosophy of Physics (IUCHPP), the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC), and the Science and Empire Commission (SCIEMP).

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Upcoming Meetings

Wednesday, September 30, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EDT

Opening ceremony: roundtable on DHST activities and its comissions.

In this session, representatives of different DHST Commissions will speak about the role and activities DHST is carrying out.

 

Thomas Haddad (USP): Thomás Haddad is a professor at the University of São Paulo, where his research focuses on the connected histories of astral knowledges in colonial worlds across the Americas in the early modern period. He currently serves as Secretary-General of the DHST/IUHPST (Division for the History of Science and Technology / International Union of History of Science and Technology).

Alice Naisbitt (UoM): Alice Naisbitt is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research, University of Manchester. Her research examines science diplomacy from both historical and contemporary perspectives, with work on the British Council, the Square Kilometre Array, and research security.

Matheus Duarte (KCL): Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva is a research fellow at King’s College London and the PI of the Wellcome Trust funded-project “How Did Infectious Diseases Become Wild?: Plague, Yellow Fever, and Disease Ecology in the Brazilian Hinterland (1920-1975)”. He is currently the president of the Science and Empire Commission.

Adriana Minor (COLMEX): Adriana Minor is an associate professor at the Center for Historical Studies of El Colegio de México and has been a member of the Inter-Union Commission for the History and Philosophy of Physics since 2025. Her research focuses on the transnational history of science, particularly the history of 20th-century physics in Latin America.

Taha Yasin (IMU): Taha Yasin Arslan is an assistant professor at the Institute for the History of Science, Istanbul Medeniyet University, Türkiye. He specializes in astronomical instruments in the 13th–16th-century Islamic world and serves as Secretary of the Scientific Instrument Commission (SIC). As part of his research, he constructs replicas of historical instruments.

Wednesday, October 7, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT

Behind the collections: a conversation with the Archivist.

 

Elizabeth Kata (IAEA).

Olivia Mandica-Hart (CERN).

Rob Sunderland (NBA).

Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EDT

Challenges and possibilities of working in a Museum.

 

David Pantalony (Ingenium).

Moema Vergara (MAST).

Marta Lourenço (MUHNAC).

Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST

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

 

Giovanna Di Rosario (Polimi).

Matthieu Huson (CNRS/PSL).

 

Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST

North-South knowledge exchange: critical thinking and new perspectives.

 

Michael Barany (Edinburgh).

Gisela Mateos (UNAM).

Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 8:00 - 9:30 am EST

Closing ceremony and final reflections.

 

Conveners of the group.

Past Meetings

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Concluding Reflections & Outlook

Topics: What was good and what could be changed; take-homes; networking opportunities.

Discussants: everyone, please join us one last time!

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Grant Writing Master Class

Topics: Think big questions and frame them well; crafting your grant; personal experience.

Speakers:  Gerardo Ienna is postdoctoral researcher at the University of Verona, Italy, and a Marie Curie global fellow (Grant Number 101026146). Simone Turchetti is Professor in history of science and technology at the Manchester University, UK, and PI of the ERC research project “Neworldata”.

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Content and Submission of Book Proposals

Topics: Should I turn my dissertation into a book?; How to find the right press; how to approach editors; how to outline a book proposal; collective authorship and editing; why book series.

Speaker: W. Patrick McCray is Professor at the History Department at the University of California Santa Barbara, USA, and a series editor for Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Roundtable Discussion on Collaborative Research & Writing

Topics: Best practice in communication in teams; different ways of collaboration; are virtual tools a game changer; national styles; are we moving towards “big history”?

Discussants:  Olival Freire Jr. is Professor in history of science at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil, and Director of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. Roberto Lalli is Assistant Professor in history of science and technology at the Polytechnico di Turino, Italy, and PI of the research project “FusEUrope”. Jinyan Liu is Professor at the Institute for the History of Natural Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, and vice-chair of the department of History of International Science and Technology.
 

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Career Diversity

Topics: Academic vs non-academic jobs; Work-life balance; gender; transition out of academia.

Speaker: Arwen Mohun is Professor in history at the University of Delaware, United States. Mohun has coordinated a working group on career diversity at the Consortium for History of Science Technology and Medicine.

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Roundtable Discussion on Journals as a Means of Shaping the Production & Dissemination of Knowledge

Topics: How to find suitable journals; how to respond to reviews; the role of journals in acdemic discourse; the policies and politics of journals.

Discussants:  Silvia Figueirôa is Professor at the University of Campinas, Brazil, and has edited several collective volumes. Joseph D. Martin is Associate Professor at Durham University, UK, chair of the editorial board of Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, editor-in-chief of Physics in Perspective, and book reviews editor for the British Journal for the History of Science. Doubravka Olšáková is Senior Researcher in History at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic, and deputy editor of Centaurus. Tiago Saraiva is Full Professor of History at the Drexel University, USA, co-editor of History and Technology and a member of the Cambridge History of Technology editorial team.

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Best Practice in Oral History Interview and Analysis

Topics: What is oral history; limits and (dis-)advantages; biases; lessons from the practice; what to consider when producing and analyzing interviews; good technologies.

Speakers: David Zierler is the Ronald and Maxine Linde Director of the Caltech Heritage Project, USA. Previously, David directed the Oral History Program at the American Institute of Physics. Sara Baum is an oral history transcription specialist and project manager, specializing in the history of science.\

See the attachment for the example of the interview that the presenters will be referring to during the meeting.

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Initial Meeting and Introduction in Writing Good & Fair Book Reviews

Topics: The nuts and bolts; communication with editors; deadlines; the balance of criticism; how to connect the book-under-review to previous work; why are novel disciplinary perspectives relevant?

Speaker: Gleb Albert is Assistant Professor in General and Eastern European History at the University of Luzerne, Switzerland, and experienced book review editor of H-SOZ-KULT.

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Group Conveners

Sofia Guilhem Basilio

Sofia Guilhem Basilio is a Brazilian historian of science and post-doctoral researcher at the University of São Paulo (USP). She holds a PhD in Science Education from USP, with a research stay at the University of Copenhagen. She is a member of the Theory and History of Contemporary Science Group (TeHCo) and an associated researcher at the Niels Bohr Archive.

Sofia’s research explores the history of modern physics and the relations between science, society, politics, and ideology, especially through Marxist perspectives. Her work engages with the cultural history of science, as well as broader questions concerning the political dimensions of scientific knowledge and institutions. Her current post-doctoral project investigates the intersection between scientific diplomacy and political-ideological persecution in twentieth-century particle physics. It examines how political repression, exile, and transnational scientific networks shaped scientific careers, institutions, and the circulation of expertise during the Cold War. Combining documentary analysis with approaches from science diplomacy studies and Marxist theories of ideology, her research asks how international scientific cooperation and political exclusion could coexist in the making of modern Big Science.

 

Sabina Luz

Sabina Luz is a Brazilian historian of science whose work explores the history of astronomy, timekeeping, and scientific instrumentation in Brazil and Latin America, with a focus on the intersections of science, technology, the circulation of knowledge and material culture. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro in 2023. She has been affiliated with the Museum of Astronomy and Related Sciences (MAST, Brazil) since 2014, initially as a researcher in the Institutional Training Programme, where she investigated the establishment of Brazil’s legal time system. From 2024 to 2025, she held a research fellowship at MAST, focusing on early twentieth-century public science conferences at the National Library of Brazil. She was recently awarded a Linda Hall Library Fellowship, through which she will investigate the development and circulation of chronometric scientific instruments between Europe and Brazil during the nineteenth century. Sabina has also contributed to academic publishing, serving as editor of the Brazilian Society for the History of Science’s electronic bulletin from 2015 to 2017. Currently she is also part of the Science and Empire Commission, which is attached to the Division for the History of Science and Technology (DHST) of the International Union for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IUHPST).

 

Rebecca Mann

Rebecca C. Mann is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques (IHPST) with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). Rebecca is a Philosopher of Biology and completed her PhD in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at The University of Sydney. Her PhD project focused on questions around The Problem of Biological Individuality, with a particular focus on the spatial, temporal, metabolic, and agential dimensions of the problem.


Rebecca also has special interests in the philosophy of life and death, as well as in bioethics and metaphysics. Rebecca has a mixed academic background in both biology and philosophy, and aims to connect contemporary empirical research from with biological sciences with philosophical problems, methods, and theories.

 

Javier Ramiro Poveda-Figueroa

Javier Poveda-Figueroa is an independent researcher and scholar based in Ecuador. He graduated as historian of science from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona in 2022. His thesis Computational intractability, artificial intelligence, and the Cold War explains why computational intractability was discovered outside of artificial intelligence during Cold War.
 

Javier has presented his work at important venues. He has been working in different topics related to history of science during the early modern period and twentieth century Ecuador. The Early Career Researcher Symposium of the Society for the History of National History, Circulating Knowledge: 20 years on, and the 27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, are some examples where Javier presented his work.


Javier also taught the continuing education course “Historia y Filosofia de la Inteligencia Artificial” (History and Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence) at Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales del Ecuador (Flacso) in 2024.

 

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