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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.
Upcoming Events
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March 18, 2019
Myles Jackson
HSS Workshop: "A Berlin Ensemble: Natural Scientists, Radio Engineers, Musicians, and the Trautonium."
University of Pennsylvania
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March 18, 2019
Dr. Jan Goplerud, Kate Campbell Hurd-Mead
The Kate Hurd-Mead Lecture: Dr. John Langdon Down, Prenatal Diagnosis, and Disability Advocacy
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, The Section on Medical History of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the Legacy Center of Drexel University College of Medicine (DUCOM)
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March 18, 2019
Alexander Ji
Carnegie Lecture - Glimpses of the Cosmic Dawn
The Huntington
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March 20, 2019
Adam Levine
From Stream to Sewer: A History of Philadelphia's Landscape
Wagner Free Institute of Science
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March 20, 2019
Pamela H. Smith
Of Lizards, Laboratories, and History: The Making and Knowing Project
The Huntington
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March 21, 2019
Jessica Wang
Animals, Governance, and American Globalism: Biological Management and Territorial Rule in Early Twentieth Century Hawai‘i
Smithsonian Institution
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March 21, 2019
Paul R. Wolfson
How Did Riemann Arrive at His Curvature?
Philadelphia Area Seminar on History of Mathematics
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March 25, 2019
Eli Nelson
STS Circle at Harvard: Repossessing the Wilderness: New Deal Sciences in the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation
Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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March 25, 2019
David Sepkoski
HSS Workshop: Catastrophic Thinking in Science and Culture; or, How We Learned to Start Worrying and Fear Mass Extinctions
University of Pennsylvania
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March 26, 2019
Library Pop-up: Women's History Month
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
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