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Perspectives on "Race Science" and Scientific Racism: Andy Evans

Andy Evans discusses the history of "race science" in Germany before 1933, describing how Germany's nineteenth-century liberal anthropological tradition transmogrified into a hierarchical and racist "science" in the early twentieth century.
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Building the Population Bomb - A Discussion with Emily Merchant

Emily Merchant explores the history of population growth modeling and the ideological and intellectual battles over the concept of overpopulation.
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Taking Nazi Technology - A Discussion with Douglas O'Reagan

Douglas O'Reagan details the largest-scale effort at technology transfer in world history, and conveys the importance of tacit knowledge and situational context for knowledge creation.

News and Notes

Job Opening: Curator of Rare Books

History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
The 56th Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology

The 56th Joint Atlantic Seminar in the History of Biology

Jointly held by MIT's Doctoral Program in History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society (HASTS) and Harvard University, History of Science Department

Friday and Saturday, April 8-9, 2022.
The Science History Institute Receives NEH SHARP Grant for ‘White Coats, Black Lives’ Project

The Science History Institute has been awarded a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of its Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) funding.
Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience at Columbia University

The Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience (PSSN) program at Columbia University invites applications for interdisciplinary postdoctoral positions to begin on July 1, 2022.
Update on Our Member Institutions' Research Policies

Find out the latest information on the research policies of our member institutions during the pandemic.
Search Consortium Collections by Type of Format

Researchers can now search collections of the Consortium's member institutions by types of format, such as books, pictures, videos, microform, manuscripts collections, and other formats.
Consortium Welcomes University of Maryland-College Park

The Consortium is delighted to welcome its newest member, the University of Maryland at College Park.
Tenure-track Position in History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Review of applications will begin October 15, 2021

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Upcoming Events

Tuesday, January 25, 2022 1:00 pm EST
Andrew Wehrman, Endrina Tay, Diane Ehrenpreis, and Elizabeth Chew in conversation with Andrew O'Shaughnessy
The Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson
American Philosophical Society
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 2:00 pm EST
Science, Capitalism, and Knowledge Commodities
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, January 26, 2022 1:00 pm EST
New Histories of Psychology: Politics, Publics, and Power
Consortium Working Group
Thursday, January 27, 2022 1:00 pm EST
Aesthetic and Design of Latin American Technology
Consortium Working Group
Thursday, January 27, 2022 1:00 pm EST
Roger Turner
Can Medical Instruments Be Racist?
Science History Institute
Friday, January 28, 2022 12:00 pm EST
Science Across Regions in Asia
Consortium Working Group
Friday, January 28, 2022 1:00 pm EST
Applied Historical Methods for the Environment
Consortium Working Group
Friday, January 28, 2022 3:00 pm EST
Anna Reser
Loose In Some Real Topics: Images of Emptiness on Florida’s Space Coast
University of Oklahoma
Monday, January 31, 2022 1:00 pm EST
Community Science Project: Transcribing Ann Haines’ Weather Journal
American Philosophical Society
Tuesday, February 1, 2022 11:00 am EST
History of Infectious Disease in the Islamicate World
Consortium Working Group

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