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Featured Event
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 - 4:00pm
Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know

Register for this online event to receive an exclusive link to view the film, then join us on Wednesday, May 19, to view a discussion with Peter Galison, Lorraine Daston and Simon Schaffer, and to participate in a live discussion with Peter Galison.
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Collections Spotlight: Overlooked Images of 19th Century Medicine with Bert Hansen

Bert Hansen guides us through his collection of images of medical treatments and technologies found in nineteenth century mass media publications, now part of The Bert Hansen Collection at Yale's Cushing/Whitney Medical Library.
News and Notes

CFP: Circulation of Images in the Life Sciences

This online workshop will explore the role of images in the history of biological research. Proposals are due June 14.

News and Notes

Wellcome Collection added to Consortium Search Hub

The collection includes more than 1.2 million items and finding aides.
Executive Director, History of Science Society

The History of Science Society seeks a visionary Executive Director. Founded in 1924, the Society is dedicated to understanding science, technology, and medicine in historical context.
Science History Institute Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Papers of Georg and Max Bredig

Collection Smuggled Out of Nazi Germany Tells Story of Noted German Jewish Scientist’s Rise to Prominence and His Family’s Struggle to Survive the Holocaust.
New Position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Applications are being accepted for a Historian of Life Science.
Update on Our Member Institutions' Research Policies

Find out the latest information on the research policies of our member institutions during the pandemic.
Deadline Extended: Residential Summer Institute at The Huntington

Applications are open for "Anthroforming the Landscape: A Historical View from Asia," July 5-9, 2021
Consortium Research Fellowships Available

Apply by April 15 to become a Consortium Research Fellow.
New Working Groups for 2021

Announcing eight new working groups this semester! Sign up for one or more groups now, and join the conversation.

Tuesday, May 11, 2021 12:00 pm EDT
Disability Studies and Mad Studies
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 12:00 pm EDT
History of Early Modern Science
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, May 12, 2021 1:00 pm EDT
Ashanti Shih
Collecting “Queer” Specimens: Settler Botany and Male Intimacies in Interwar Hawaii
Science History Institute
Thursday, May 13, 2021 11:00 am EDT
Practices and Social Relations of Obstetrical Objects
Consortium Working Group
Thursday, May 13, 2021 11:30 am EDT

Consortium Working Group
Friday, May 14, 2021 12:00 pm EDT
Visual Cultures in Natural History, the Life Sciences, and Medicine
Consortium Working Group
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 2:00 pm EDT
History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine
Consortium Working Group
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 6:00 pm EDT
History of Technology
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 1:00 pm EDT
Jim McClure
The Jefferson Weather and Climate Records Digital Resource and the Digitization of American Weather Records
American Philosophical Society
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 5:30 pm EDT
Bruce Moran
The Thing about Alchemy . . . Secrets, Mixtures, and Discerning the Alchemical in the Potter’s Art
Science History Institute