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Liberation Eugenics: African Americans and the Science of Black Freedom Struggles

How African Americans mobilized eugenics and racial science to challenge scientific racism
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Hope and Human Defect in Progressive America

Finding the role of the family in the rise of eugenic institutions
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December 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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CFP: Pedagogy, Popularization, and the Public Understanding of Science

Submissions for this two-day conference are due February 3, 2020.
Homo-Musicus: The Early Modern Sciences of the Human Body

Early modern philosophers from across western Europe found in music tools to connect the physical and even mechanical processes of the body with the more abstract phenomena of thought, cognition, health, and pleasure.
Wellcome Collection Makes Papers of the UK Health Education Council and Health Education Authority Available for Research

A remarkable archive that richly documents British health promotion campaigns in the late twentieth century is now available for researchers at Wellcome Collection.
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia adds Silas Weir Mitchell papers to digital collections.

The Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia is pleased to announce a major new addition to its digital collections with the online publication of much of our primary source material related to the life and work of Silas Weir Mitchell (1829-1914).
Adler Planetarium announces new Chicago's Night Sky exhibit

In a corner of the Adler Planetarium’s new Chicago’s Night Sky exhibit, a display containing two iPads invites guests to “help us learn about constellations across cultures and centuries.”
Human Remainders: The Lost Century of the Samuel George Morton Collection

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

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Upcoming Events

January 23, 2020

Gregory T. Cushman

Decentering Climate History: The Global Little Ice Age, circa 1570 to 1720

University of Oklahoma

January 27, 2020

Christopher J. Phillips

Number Doctors: The History of Biostatistics and the Origins of Precision Medicine

University of Pennsylvania
January 27, 2020

Nic Ramos

Emergent Economies, Emergent Medicine: Emergency Medical Services and the Normalization of Everyday Violence in 1980s Los Angeles

Yale University
January 29, 2020

Charlotte Abney

The Discovery of Elements in 18th-Century Sweden

Science History Institute
January 29, 2020

Robert D. Hicks

Spit Spreads Death: The Influenza Pandemic in Philadelphia

College of Physicians of Philadelphia, The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage, Institute of Museum and Library Services, Groff Family Memorial Trust and the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission
February 3, 2020

Nükhet Varlık

Rethinking Plague's Second Pandemic: The Ottoman Empire and Global Ecological History

University of Pennsylvania
February 3, 2020

Naveeda Kahn

The Work of ‘Loss and Damage’ within Global Climate Negotiations

Yale University
February 5, 2020

Margaret Schotte

A Fast-Track to Expertise? Early Modern Navigators Debate Theory and Practice

University of Toronto
February 7, 2020

Glassworks: Transparency—Opacity—Reflection

Princeton University
February 7, 2020

Pam Gossin

Kindred Spirits: John G. Nelhardt's "Nature Seers' and Early Twentieth-Century American Environmental Thought

University of Oklahoma

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Decentering Climate History: The Global Little Ice Age, circa 1570 to 1720