Working Groups

Join us this week to discuss two fantastic papers:

Emma Wathen's chapter : "I Am an 'Iron-Lung' Mother": Polio Mothers and the Mothers' March on Polio, 1955-64."

AND 

Carol Williams' piece: "Reproductive Justice and the class action suit against A.H. Robins's products, The Dalkon Shield."

Find both files in the attachment below. 

Teaching Global Health History

This session will cover the opportunities and challenges of teaching the history of global health to students in public health/ health-related fields.

 Confirmed Panelists:

Melissa Graboyes (University of Oregon)

Mariola Espinosa (University of Iowa)

Leah Mahmut

Johannes Hagmann - A Quantum Insight: Deutsches Museum exhibition

Alex Roland's "A Centrifugal Maelstrom?", Tuesday, February 25, 1-2:30 EST

Please join us on Tuesday, February 25, from 1-2:30 eastern standard time, for a discussion of Alex Roland's "A Centrifugal Maelstrom?", his Da Vinci Award address recently published in Technology and Culture (and linked below). 

Hugo Rueda (SSOM, McGill), "Taxonomical Clashes. Indigenous Material Culture in the Natural History Museum of Chile during the 19th century"

Provincializing (Western) Model Organisms through the East Asian Fish

Lijing Jiang, Johns Hopkins University

*NOTE SPECIAL TIME*

Keagan Brewer (Macquarie University), 'The Voynich Manuscript and the Secrets of Women'

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.

We will discuss two readings on the end of natural history:

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.

Naomi Adiv, "Last Bathhouse Standing: The Allen Street Public Bath, New York City, 1905-1975"
 

Manuscript workshop with Dongchung, Tenzin Yewong

Dongchung, Tenzin Yewong, "Smooth like the Skin, sprouted like the seeds: Recovering Tibetan Artisanal Knowledge of Wood's Materiality."

Agnieszka Helman-Wazny, "Tibetan Woodblock Printing Culture," in The Archaeology of Tibetan Books, chapter 5

Erin McLeary (Mütter Museum)

Paper: Josh Eisenthal "The Absolute Motion Detector" 

Guest: Josh Eisenthal 

Primary Source: Selections from Poincaré

Colorways in African Traditions
Presenters: Laurence Douny (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) & Dame Kane (Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar)
Organizer: Sarah Lowengard

Olga Smith (Newcastle University): Ecopolitical Aesthetics of Weeds
 

Leah Malamut, PhD candidate, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

 
"'God's Gift to the People of the Orient': Coffee, Slavery, and Medicine in Early Modern Tuscany"
Lucia Dacome (University of Toronto)
Commentator: Duygu Yildirim (University of Tennessee) 

• Jake Stephen Milner, Decarbonising Deindustrial Places: Industrial Collective Memories in the Age of Green Economic Development
• Aditi Basu, Hinduism and Sun Deification in India: Relevance in the 21st Century as Solar Energy