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News and Notes
Harvard University Joins Consortium
The Consortium is delighted to welcome Harvard University as its newest member.
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Featured Event
Thursday, September 28, 2017 - 6:30pmSusan Lindee, Projit Bihari Mukharji, and Joanna Radin
Immortal Life: The Promises and Perils of Biobanking and the Genetic Archive
American Philosophical Society and the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
Are we now approaching a time when we could all live, at least in freezers, forever? This public forum explores some of the historical and social questions raised by the "frozen archive." -
News and Notes
June 2017 Newsletter
The June Newsletter welcomes the Adler Planetarium and SHOT, as well as 2017-18 fellows to the Consortium. It also has updates on working groups, events and other activities.
Upcoming Events
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September 26, 2017
Scott Devine
Academy Library Acquisitions Night
The New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
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September 27, 2017
John Tresch, University of Pennsylvania
Barnum, Bache, and Poe: American Science and the Antebellum Public
Columbia University (New York, NY)
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September 27, 2017
Professor Darin Hayton
The Cosmos: A History of Modern Astronomy
The Wagner Free Institute of Science (Philadelphia, PA)
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September 28, 2017
Luis Campos, University of New Mexico
Life As It Could Be: Astrobiology, Synthetic Biology and the Future of Life
Library of Congress (Washington, DC)
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September 28, 2017
New Perspectives on Historic Collections: Research by the Temple-Wagner Humanities & Arts Fellows
Wagner Free Institute of Science (Philadelphia, PA)
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September 28, 2017
Beth Linker, University of Pennsylvania
The Great War and Modern Veteran Care
New York Academy of Medicine (New York, NY)
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October 2, 2017
Kristina Douglass, Penn State
Humanizing Madagascar’s Anthropocene
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
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October 2, 2017
Jacob Doherty, Wolfe Humanities Center
Para-Sites and Waste Frontiers: Governing Kampala's Multi-Species Infrastructure
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
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October 4, 2017
Professor Greg Cowper
A Selective History of 19th-Century American Entomology
The Wagner Free Institute of Science (Philadelphia, PA)
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October 4, 2017
Adam Diller, Fathima Nizaruddin, and Thorsten Trimpop
Documenting Nuclear Afterlives: A Conversation with Three Film Directors
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)