Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine | Promoting scholarly and public understanding of history of science, technology and medicine.

News and Notes

Fields of Empire: Science, Ethnoscience and the Making of the American Century

Where does science end and ethnoscience begin?
News and Notes

Apply for 2020-2021 Consortium Fellowships

The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed.
News and Notes

October 2019 Newsletter

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

News and Notes

University of Oklahoma Joins Consortium

The Consortium is delighted to welcome University of Oklahoma as its newest member. OU is home to one of the oldest programs in the U.S. in history of science, technology and medicine, as well as a premier research collection.
Being and Becoming a Midwife in 18th century France: Pedagogical Practices and Objects

Investigating the history of objects and practices provides new insight into hidden actors in the history of midwifery.
NYAM Digitizes Two Projects

Over 6,600 items are now available for researchers online.
College of Physicians Digitizes Silas Weir Mitchell Materials

A dedicated research portal offers new opportunities for scholars working on the history of 19th-century medicine
Johns Hopkins Collections Added to Consortium Search Hub

Listings of more than 136,000 rare books are now part of the Consortium's multi-institutional catalog.
The APS Catalogs H. Eldon Sutton Papers and Val Logsdon Fitch Papers; acquires Freeman Dyson Papers

These papers will add to the APS's holdings on the history of twentieth-century science.
Adler Planetarium Publishes Catalogue of Sundial Collection

This volume highlights some of the most significant sundials in the Adler's collections, and provides information for both specialists and non-specialists.
Strange Beauty: Botanical Collection, Preservation, and Display in the 19th Century Tropics

A materialist examination of tropical plants gives an understanding of the intersection of art and science at the center of modern ways of using and understanding tropical nature.

More News and Notes »

Upcoming Events

October 17, 2019

Deborah R. Coen

Anthropocene and Animal Studies Reading Group

University of Pennsylvania

October 17, 2019

Joel A. Klein

Secrets, Lies, and Hands with Eyes: Daniel Sennert’s Overture to the Institutionalization of Chemistry

Johns Hopkins University
October 17, 2019

Bathsheba Demuth

The Ethical Choices of Whales: Bowheads, Hunters, and the Nature of History

Yale University
October 20, 2019

Mark Plotkin and Brian Hettler

Life and Times of Ethnobotanist Richard Schultes in the Amazon

The Huntington Library
October 21, 2019

Przemyslaw Palka

The (Non)Imaginaries of “Data” in Law, and their Politics

Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
October 21, 2019

Julia Stone and Charles Kollmer

Food or Drug?: The Regulatory Dilemma of Saccharin in the Early Twentieth Century United States

Princeton University
October 21, 2019

Alex Wellerstein

Drawing the bomb: Secrecy, style, and the diagrammatic representation of nuclear weapons

University of Pennsylvania
October 21, 2019

Jennifer Strtak

Prêt-à-rouler: vehicles and the making of movement in early modern France

Yale University
October 22, 2019

Kathryn Goldfarb

Materializing Relationships: Embodying Absent Kinships in Japanese Child Welfare

Johns Hopkins University and the East Asian Studies Speakers Series
October 28, 2019

Michael Mendez

Climate Change from the Streets

Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

More Events »

Anthropocene and Animal Studies Reading Group