Working Groups

Bernhard Hurch (Graz)

The Hugo Schuchardt Archive:  overview of an emblematic figure of the 19th century.

Join us to discuss Working Group member Minji Lee's recent book, The Medieval Womb Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Rep

Paper: Christoph Lehner, Jos Uffink, "Schrödinger, Szilard, and the emergence of the EPR argument" (forthcoming)

Primary Source: Schrödinger, "The Present Status of Quantum Mechanics" (1935)

Guests: Christoph Lehner, Jos Uffink

Presenter: Guillermo Pupo, "Annatto as Indigenous Matter: A Rhizomatic Reading of Its Use and Meaning in Colonial Context" 

Mistura Allison (Villa Romana) and Helena Uambembe (Berlin): tbc

Michael Adamson, “Lewis Stone and the “Destruction of Venice Beach”: Contesting Petroleum Extraction as a Beneficial Use of the Southern California Shoreline

Sonia Wigh (University of Cambridge)

The Lone Pregnant Body: Illustrating Feminine Forms in Manṣūr’s Anatomy

Our December meeting is cancelled. See you in January!

Speaker: Laurence Totelin, Cardiff University. 

Talk: Beyond medical pluralism: Interactions between physician-pharmacists and other craftspeople in the Graeco-Roman world

Cassius Adair, Media Studies, New School, "Lynn Conway's Stealth Work, 1983-1985"

Laith Shakir (New York University), TBA

Adrianna Link (APS)

Daniela Monaldi - "The Statistical Style of Reasoning and the Invention of Bose-Einstein Statistics"

Guest: Daniela Monaldi

What historians (and other humanities/social sciences scholars) need to know about color sciences and technical color.

Nuance: TBD

Organizer: Sarah (coordinator)

New book preview - Public Health in the Premodern World: Dynamic Balances, edited by Guy Geltner,  Janna Coomans and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Oxford, February 2026)

Speakers: Janna Coomans and Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim 

Karen Pinto, University of Colorado-Boulder, “All the World’s an Island: A Taussigian Reading of Ancient, Medieval, and Early Modern Maps with an Islamicate Twist”

Spring Semester Welcome Back Event: A critical reading of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls

Host: Kelly O'Donnell,  Towson University

Satyanad Kichenassamy Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, LMR (CNRS, UMR9008) and
GREI (EPHE-PSL and Sorbonne-Université),

Mathematical reasoning as an outgrowth of Vedic ritual.

Joseph Campana

"An Inside View of Technology and Culture," with Ruth Oldenziel, Editor-in-Chief. Join us for a conversation about the field's flagship journal, what it's publishing and what it looks for in submissions, and its visions and plans for the future. Ruth has just started a second term as chief editor.