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The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry: A Conversation with Wendy Gonaver

In this episode of Perspectives, we speak with Wendy Gonaver about the state of psychiatry in the pre- and post-Civil War American South, and the ways that race, gender, and class governed the care provided by psychiatric institutions.
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Consortium Research Fellowships Available

Apply by April 15 to become a Consortium Research Fellow.
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Propose a New Working Group

The Consortium invites proposals for new online working groups focusing on specialized topics in the history of science, technology or medicine.

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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.
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
New Working Groups for 2021

Announcing eight new working groups this semester! Sign up for one or more groups now, and join the conversation.
Help to Foster Scholarship and Public Education

The Consortium is a community of people, inside and outside academia, who care deeply about science, technology and medicine, about how these fields are changing, and about how those changes affect us. These concerns have never been more relevant.

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Upcoming Events

Monday, April 12, 2021 12:15 pm EDT
Marc F. Aidinoff
Digital Welfare Reform: The Constitutional Project of Computerizing Government
Harvard University
Monday, April 12, 2021 3:30 pm EDT
Nancy Rose Hunt
Quandaries in a psy history-in-progress: With psychopolitics, everyday psychiatries
University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:00 pm EDT
Disability Studies and Mad Studies
Consortium Working Group
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 4:00 pm EDT
History and Climate Change Reading Group
Columbia University
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 4:30 pm EDT
Education Workshop: Yellow Fever (1793)
American Philosophical Society
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 12:00 pm EDT
History of Evolution and Heredity in Brazil
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 6:00 pm EDT
Bettina Judd, Raymond Givens, Matthew Sandler, Rita Charon
Telling Stories: Medicine and Institutional Racism
Columbia University
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 6:00 pm EDT
Wangui Muigai
Wangui Muigai - Counting Deaths: A Historical Look at Black Infant Mortality
Columbia University
Wednesday, April 14, 2021 6:30 pm EDT
History and Philosophy of Science
Consortium Working Group
Thursday, April 15, 2021 11:00 am EDT
History of Media Studies
Consortium Working Group

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