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Featured Event
Friday, December 15, 2023 - 11:00am
Curating Bodies: The Changing Responsibilities of Museums

What should contemporary museums do with the skulls, skeletons, bodies and body parts in their collections and exhibits? Join us for a discussion with The Matson Museum of Anthropology at the Pennsylvania State University, The Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, and the Wellcome Collection in London.
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Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools

Christopher Willoughby charts the rise of racist theories in U.S. medical schools, examining the extensive legacies of slavery in modern medicine.
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Apply for Consortium Fellowships

Apply by December 15 for Research Fellowships, Long-Term NEH Fellowships and Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars

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Hosting the Consortium

The Consortium invites proposals for its next institutional host, which would place it at the center of a vibrant community including leading and emerging scholars from around the world.
Cedars-Sinai and Huntington Library Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Medicine

The Program in the History of Medicine at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in partnership with The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, announces a search for one post-doctoral fellow for a two-year appointment in the Program in the History of Medicine.
Fellowships Opportunities at the Science History Institute

The Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry at the Science History Institute is now accepting applications for our 2024–2025 fellowships.
Fellowship Opportunities at the University of Kansas

The University of Kansas Kenneth Spencer Research Library is pleased to announce the availability of three travel grants to facilitate research and use of the library’s collections. The amount available for each award is $1,500.
Support the Consortium

The Consortium is working hard to advance knowledge of history of science, technology and medicine. Today we ask your support in continuing this effort. Any donation, at any level, helps us to continue our work. Please consider making a donation today.
University of Sydney Acquires First Edition of Vesalius

University of Sydney Fisher Library has acquired a first edition of On the Fabric of the Human Body by Andreas Vesalius.
Opportunity: Director, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation

The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation seeks a Director to serve as the champion for the power of invention and innovation and to lead the Center’s pathbreaking educational and engagement efforts.
The Currency of the Cell: Energy Cycles and the Remaking of Metabolism, 1900–1970

Read about Gina Surita's research into the history of molecular biology and the influence of metaphors of "economy" on our understanding of cellular functions.

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Upcoming Events

Monday, December 11, 2023 3:30 pm EST

Rebecca Gruskin

Capitalism's Nature: A Global History of Mining, Empire, and Resistance in Tunisia

Monday, December 11, 2023 5:30 pm EST

Christopher Heaney

Healing Incas: Peruvian Surgery and the Recovery of Scientific Ancestors

Tuesday, December 12, 2023 10:00 am EST

History of the Language Sciences

Tuesday, December 12, 2023 12:00 pm EST

Disability Studies and Mad Studies

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 9:30 am EST

History and Philosophy of Contemporary Theoretical Physics

Wednesday, December 13, 2023 6:30 pm EST

History and Philosophy of Science

Thursday, December 14, 2023 10:00 am EST

Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies, and Aesthetics (MMEA)

Thursday, December 14, 2023 12:00 pm EST

Tamara Venit-Shelton,

“White Plague, Yellow Peril: Tuberculosis and Environmental Health in San Francisco Chinatown”

Thursday, December 14, 2023 12:00 pm EST

Collection Ecologies

Thursday, December 14, 2023 1:00 pm EST

Aesthetic and Design of Latin American Technology

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