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Apply for 2020-2021 Consortium Fellowships

The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed.
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Propose a New Working Group

The Consortium invites proposals for new online working groups focusing on specialized topics in the history of science, technology or medicine.
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Human Remainders: The Lost Century of the Samuel George Morton Collection

What becomes of cranial collections after the decline of cranial race science?

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Model Bodies: The Art, Science, and Craft of Human Modeling for 3-D Computer Graphics and Animation, 1960-1995

Investigating the history of computer-generated image-making reveals the materiality of computer modeling.
CFA: Linda Hall Library 2020-21 Fellowships

The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2020-21 fellowship program. Applications are due January 17, 2020.
Seminal Ideas: The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and his Contemporaries

Investigating Robert Boyle's role in the development of the life sciences
CFP: "Evidence: The Use and Misuse of Data"

Inspired by its 2020 exhibition Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, the American Philosophical Society Library & Museum is organizing a daylong symposium that explores the nature of evidence.
Fellowships and Travel Grants from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center

Through its fellowships and travel grants, the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation supports research projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society.
The Smithsonian Libraries offering Dibner Library and Baird Society Fellowships

The Smithsonian Libraries has just opened applications for our two Special Collections fellowship programs: the Dibner Library Resident Scholar Program and the Baird Society Resident Scholar Program. Deadlines for both are January 15, 2020.
Fields of Empire: Science, Ethnoscience and the Making of the American Century

Where does science end and ethnoscience begin?
October 2019 Newsletter

Read about the Consortium's newest member, news about fellows and fellowships, working groups, and the collections of member institutions.

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Upcoming Events

December 6, 2019

The Maker’s Space: Place, Person & Production in Early Modern China: Workshop

Johns Hopkins University Co-Sponsored with: East Asian Studies Program; Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation; Department of History

December 9, 2019

Camille Owens

The Anatomy of Sammy Tubbs: Racial Pedagogies of the Human from Medical Science to Children’s Culture (1845-1880)

Yale University
December 9, 2019

Ruha Benjamin

A New Jim Code?: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

University of Pennsylvania
December 9, 2019

Mabel Rosenheck

Meeting Your First Dinosaur: Museums, Extinctions, and Fossil Restorations in 19th-century Philadelphia

Wagner Free Institute of Science, Science on Tap
December 10, 2019

Alexandra Straub

Domesticating Water: Gender, Class, and Environment in the Household Wash, 1849–1919

Science History Institute
December 11, 2019

Farren Yero

Laboratories of Consent: Vaccine Science in the Spanish Atlantic World, 1779-1840

The Newberry
December 12, 2019

Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe

Anthropocene and Animal Studies Reading Group

University of Pennsylvania
December 12, 2019

Jean Sanchez

Differentiating Astronomy and Astrology in Early Modern Europe

Linda Hall Library
December 12, 2019

DNA: The Secret of Photo 51

New York Academy of Medicine and The Academy Section on History of Medicine and Public Health
December 12, 2019

David Suisman

Sonic Warfare: Military Music, Labor, and Technology Since the Civil War

Hagley Museum and Library

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The Maker’s Space: Place, Person & Production in Early Modern China: Workshop