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History of Science Society@100: Global Perspectives

How have global perspectives in the history of science been represented in the past? What are the pressing questions and challenges for the future of the field from a global perspective?
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DNA Papers 8: The Evidence for DNA as the Transforming Substance

In Episode 8 of the DNA papers, we discuss the experiments that left “little doubt” that DNA is the chemical substance responsible for the transformation of bacterial types.
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History of Science Society @100: At the Movies

A discussion of four recent movies with historians Yangyang Cheng, David Hecht, and Amit Prasad and Matt Shindell. Each of the films they review takes on history of science in different ways.

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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.
Apply for Consortium Fellowships

Apply by December 15 for Research Fellowships, Long-Term NEH Fellowships and Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars
Call for Papers: Animal History - Inaugural Volume

Call for Papers:
Animal History - Inaugural Volume
Submissions open: September 15, 2023
Madness: A Brief History with Darin Hayton

The concept of madness presents a challenge. What sorts of perceived deviant behavior indicated that a person was mad? How have societies understood the assumed underlying conditions that caused that behavior?
Blog - Linguistics: Reconstructing the Discipline through Universals Research

Judith Kaplan has started a blog about her NSF-funded project at the Consortium.
Applications for NYAM Library 2024 History of Medicine Residential Fellowships are Open

Apply by August 25 for a NYAM Fellowship.
In the Aftermath of the “Lost” Pandemic: Philadelphia, 1919-1922

Albert M. Greenfield Fellow Bethany Johnson explores the social legacies of the 1918 influenza epidemic in Philadelphia.
Call for Working Group Papers

Propose a draft article, dissertation chapter or book chapter for discussion at one of the Consortium's working groups.