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Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban America

In this podcast, Melanie Kiechle answers questions about her book on urban environments, public health, and senses of smell in the nineteenth century.
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Sickness and the City

How have diseases and urban development interacted in history and contemporary societies? Watch video presentations by leading scholars, read other expert commentaries, and add your perspective in our discussion forum.
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Shopping for Health: Medicine and Markets in America

How has medical consumerism contributed to the challenges of our current healthcare system, including the opioid epidemic? Watch video presentations by leading historians, read other scholars' expert commentaries, and add your perspective in our discussion forum.

News and Notes

December 2018 Newsletter

In the December 2018 Newsletter: The Huntington joins Consortium. Online forum: Shopping for Health. News about public and academic events as well as Consortium fellows.
Winter 2018 Fellows Update

See the latest news from Consortium fellows.
Huntington Library Joins the Consortium

We are delighted to announce that the Huntington Library has become the Consortium's newest member.
Humanism Encaged: The American Zoo, 1887-1917

At the turn of the twentieth century, zoological parks became wildly popular in the United States. The rise of the American zoo brought with it a rise in popular zoology, with wide-ranging consequences for for science, technology and medicine.
Phonographs, Flying Machines, and the Animality of Modernity

Daniel Vandersommers, Assistant Professor at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities at Ball State University, and former Consortium NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, will deliver a public talk on the role of zoos as sites for scientific research and education.
“A Mind Prostrate”: Physicians, Opiates, and Insanity in the Civil War’s Aftermath

New research points to an opiate addiction epidemic from the nineteenth century.
Linda Hall Library 2019-2020 Fellowships

The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2019-20 fellowship program.
Fall 2018 Fellows Update

See the latest news from Consortium fellows.

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Upcoming Events

February 19, 2019

Alex Mazzaferro

The Innovation Prohibition and the New Science of Politics in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Science History Institute

February 19, 2019

Kim TallBear

Molecular Death, Desire, and Redface Reincarnation: Indigenous Appropriations in the USA and Canada

Precision Medicine & Society, the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University's Institute for Research on Women, Gender and Sexuality (IRWGS); Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CSER); the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
February 21, 2019

Kimberly TallBear (University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada)

Harvard University History of Science Seminars: Kimberly TallBear

Harvard University
February 21, 2019

Harold Edwards

Are Complex Numbers as Important as Modern Mathematics Makes Them?
February 22, 2019

Vanessa Agard-Jones, Lisa Gitelman, Orit Halpern, Julie Livingston, Joseph Masco, Tiago Saraiva

Year Zero: More-Than-Human-Worlding After 1945

New York University Abu Dhabi Institute
February 23, 2019

Informational Images and the Legacy of Humanism: an Interdisciplinary Workshop

University of Pennsylvania
February 25, 2019

Daniel Francis Zizzamia

STS Circle at Harvard

Harvard University
February 25, 2019

Alondra Nelson

History of Science and Medicine Colloquia: Alondra Nelson

Yale University
February 26, 2019

Jonathan Coopersmith, Texas A&M University

Creative Construction: The Integral Importance of Froth, Fraud and Fear in Emerging Technologies

Dexel University
February 26, 2019

Monique A. Guishard, Susan M. Reverby, Moderated by Aletha Maybank

Could Tuskegee Happen Today

New York Academy of Medicine

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The Innovation Prohibition and the New Science of Politics in the Early Modern Atlantic World