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Workshop Entangled Histories
Women, Quantum Physics, and the Power of Connection
Workshop in Cooperation with TUM/STS
July 9-11, 2026
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
Thursday, July 9 — Historiography, Erasure, and Gendered Narratives
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 13:30–14:00 | Organizers | Welcome & Introduction |
| 14:00–14:45 | Daniela Helbig (University of Sydney) | Women in Quantum Physics and Historical Practice |
| 14:45–15:30 | Bretislav Friedrich (Fritz Haber Institute Berlin) | Experiments that Lined the Path to Quantum Physics |
| 15:30–16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00–16:45 | Elena Schaa (University of Basel) | Investigating Masculinity Studies for the Entangled History of Bias and Erasure |
| 16:45–17:30 | Colleen Seidel (University of Wuppertal) | Female Physicists in Historical Overviews of Physics |
| 17:30–17:50 | María Paz Figueroa (Universidad de Concepción UdeC) | Beyond Refutation: Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider, Kant, and Einstein |
| 17:50–18:15 | Discussion Buffer/Break | |
| 18:15–19:00 | Organizers | Roundtable: Writing Quantum History after Erasure |
Friday, July 10 — Networks, Geography, and Scientific Labor
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:00–10:45 | Luisa Lovisetti (University of Milan) | What Do We Gain from Studying the History of Quantum Mechanics? |
| 10:45–11:30 | Guido Bacciagaluppi (University of Utrecht) & Elise Crull (CUNY) | Kantianism with a Human Face: Grete Hermann, Quantum Mechanics, and Critical Philosophy |
| 11:30–11:45 | Break | |
| 11:45-12:30 | Michelle Frank (New York) | Entangling Scientific and Social Histories |
| 12:30–14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00–14:45 | 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 |
| 14:45–15:30 | Marta Jordi (Institut Menorquí d'Estudis IME) | Canut and the Power of Women’s Connections |
| 15:30-16:00 | Break | |
| 16:00–16:45 | 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 |
| 16:45–17:30 | Ricardo Karam (University of Copenhagen) | Pedagogical Potential of the Conceptual History of Quantum Mechanics |
| 17:30–17:50 | Discussion Buffer/Break | |
| 17:50–19:00 | Organizers | Roundtable: Networks, Geography, and Inequality in Physics |
| 20:00 | Conference Dinner |
Saturday, July 11 — Pedagogy, Policy, and Future Directions
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 10:00–11:15 | Duru Bayram (Eindhoven University of Technology) | Addressing Gender Inequities in STEM: Insights from European Teacher Education |
| 11:15–12:00 | Jolene Johnson (University of Minnesota–Twin Cities) | Disrupting the Dominant Narrative: STEP UP Counternarratives |
| 12:00-12:15 | Break | |
| 12:15-13:00 | Charnell Long (North Carolina A&T State University) | Teaching as Scientific Labor: Recovering the Impact of Renette Berthelle Echols at HBCUs |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:30 | Margriet van der Heijden (Eindhoven University of Technology) | Roadmap & Synthesis Session |
| 15:30-17:00 | 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
