Working Groups

Spectral Colors: Peeping and Projecting Spectacular Reality, 1890–1920s

Zi Yun Huang, University of Chicago,  Dissertation Prospectus for "A History of Plankton Science from Protoplasm to Petroleum"

This month, we will be reading Joan Wallach Scott's Gender and the Politics of History. 

Join us this week as we discuss two very interesting papers, both related to bodily fluids! 

Georgia Haire's paper: "White, clear, grayish, yellow, curdy: Vaginal infection, discharge and women’s everyday health in Canada and the United States, 1960s-1990s." 

Jung Lee on 'Questioning Plant Phylogenetic Tree: Dynamic Indra's Nets from Japanese Colonial Fields'

Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik
 

The editors Patrick Charbonneau, Michelle Frank, Margriet van der Heijden, and Daniela Monaldi will join us for a discussion of the book Women in the History of Quantum Physics: Beyond Knabenphysik.
 

Ramya Swayamprakash, Grand Valley State University

Raising Down the “Hell gate” of the Great Lakes: The Limekiln Projects in the Lower Detroit River, 1873-1900

Jovita Yesilyurt (Natural History Museum London) and Christina Welch (University of Winchester) "Unearthing the contribution of Indigenous and enslaved African knowledge systems to the Saint Vincent Botanical Garden under Dr Anderson (1785-1811)"

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”?

Speaker:
Prof. João F. N. B. Cortese
University of São Paulo
Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology

Presentation:
To be announced
The lecture will be delivered in Portuguese.

Suggested Reading:
To be announced

To learn more about Dr. Cortese, please click here: Google Scholar.

Erica Fischer will present: 'Amateurs, butterflies, and the BMNH: Amassing and skewing institutional collections of Lepidoptera' followed by a discussion

Joanna Paxton Federico, "Finding the Center(s): Insitutionalizing the Science of Violence Prevention at the CDC (1977-1992)
 

Reed Gochberg (Concord Museum)

John Tresch, The Warburg Institute

Excerpts from Cosmograms: How To Do Things with Worlds

 
"'Visual Prescription' in Yinshan Zhengyao: Image and Cure in Premodern and Modern China"
Di Wang (Oxford)
Commentator: TBC

• Syllabus share! What should be on a syllabus for energy history and energy-related topics? 

 “Patrick Syme’s Field Guide to Color: Past, Present and Future” 

Joyce Dixon (Independent Art Historian), Peter Davidson (Senior Curator of Minerals, at the National Museums Scotland), Patrick Baty (Independent Scholar and Colorist)

Organizer: Giulia Simonini

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.

Speaker
Prof. Gracyelle Costa Ferreira
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)
Learn more: Prof. Gracyelle Costa Ferreira - GPSankofa
Presentation:
Details coming soon
Suggested Readings: