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Workshop Entangled Histories
Women, Quantum Physics, and the Power of Connection
July 9-11, 2026
Workshop in Cooperation with TUM/STS
Location: Deutsches Museum, Library Building, Seminarraum Forschung I
Organizers: Andrea Reichenberger (TUM), Johannes Geert Hagmann (Deutsches Museum), Patrick Charbonneau (Duke University), Daniela Monaldi (York University), Margriet van der Heijden (Eindhoven University of Technology)
with kind assistance by: Tabitha Goricki (TUM) and Malte Henes (TUM)
Program
Conference dinner location: TBD
Thursday, July 9 — Historiography, Erasure, and Gendered Narratives
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 1:30pm–2:00pm | Organizers | Welcome & Introduction |
| 2:00pm–2:45pm | Daniela Helbig (University of Sydney) | Women in Quantum Physics and Historical Practice |
| 2:45pm–3:30pm | Bretislav Friedrich (Fritz Haber Institute Berlin) | Experiments that Lined the Path to Quantum Physics |
| 3:30pm–4:00pm | Break | |
| 4:00pm–4:45pm | Elena Schaa (University of Basel) | Investigating Masculinity Studies for the Entangled History of Bias and Erasure |
| 4:45pm–5:30pm | Colleen Seidel (University of Wuppertal) | Female Physicists in Historical Overviews of Physics |
| 5:30pm–5:50 pm | María Paz Figueroa (Universidad de Concepción UdeC) | Beyond Refutation: Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider, Kant, and Einstein |
| 5:50pm–6:15pm | Discussion Buffer/Break | |
| 6:15pm–7:00pm | Organizers & invited guest speaker: Prof. Stefania Centrone (TUM) | Roundtable: Writing Quantum History after Erasure |
Friday, July 10 — Networks, Geography, and Scientific Labor
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:00am–10:45am | Luisa Lovisetti (University of Milan) | What Do We Gain from Studying the History of Quantum Mechanics? |
| 10:45am–11:30am | Guido Bacciagaluppi (University of Utrecht) & Elise Crull (CUNY) | Kantianism with a Human Face: Grete Hermann, Quantum Mechanics, and Critical Philosophy |
| 11:30am–11:45am | Break | |
| 11:45am-12:30pm | Michelle Frank (New York) | Entangling Scientific and Social Histories |
| 12:30pm–14:00pm | Lunch | |
| 2:00pm–2:45pm | Adriana Minor (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) & Laura Sued Brandão Santos (Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Bahia) | Estrella Mathov: Building South American Scientific Connections |
| 2:45pm–3:30pm | Marta Jordi (Institut Menorquí d'Estudis IME) | Canut and the Power of Women’s Connections |
| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Break | |
| 4:00pm–4:45pm | Brigitte van Tiggelen (Science History Institute Philadelphia) | (Dis)entangling intimate collaborations. The contrasting fate of two collaborative couples and the emergence of quantum chemistry in France |
| 4:45pm–5:30pm | Ricardo Karam (University of Copenhagen) | Pedagogical Potential of the Conceptual History of Quantum Mechanics |
| 5:30pm–5:50pm | Discussion Buffer/Break | |
| 5:50pm–7:00pm | Organizers | Roundtable: Networks, Geography, and Inequality in Physics |
| 8:00pm | Conference Dinner |
Saturday, July 11 — Pedagogy, Policy, and Future Directions
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:00am–11:15am | Duru Bayram (Eindhoven University of Technology) | Addressing Gender Inequities in STEM: Insights from European Teacher Education |
| 11:15am–12:00am | Jolene Johnson (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) | Disrupting the Dominant Narrative: STEP UP Counternarratives |
| 12:00pm-12:15pm | Break | |
| 12:15pm-1:00pm | Charnell Long (North Carolina A&T State University) | Teaching as Scientific Labor: Recovering the Impact of Renette Berthelle Echols at HBCUs |
| 1:00pm-2:00pm | Lunch | |
| 2:00pm-3:30pm | Margriet van der Heijden (Eindhoven University of Technology) | Roadmap & Synthesis Session |
| 3:30pm-5:00pm | Deutsches Museum Visit (optional) |
Everyone is warmly welcome to attend the workshop; if you would like to participate, please register in advance by sending an email to: malte.henes@tum.de
