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Forum

Engineering Manhood

A Conversation with Jonson Miller about race, class and gender in the early history of engineering education.
News and Notes

Propose a New Working Group

Deadline Extended to November 30.

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

Senior & Junior Postdocs, Dissertation Fellowships for 2021-22

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

News and Notes

New Position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Applications are being accepted for a Historian of Life Science.
Consortium Welcomes University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Consortium is delighted to welcome its newest member institution.
CFP: The Promise and Pitfalls of Citizen Science

Proposals are due December 18 for this symposium, organized by the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum.
College of Physicians of Philadelphia Finding Aids Added to Search Hub

Finding aids for the collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia are now included in the Consortium's Cross-Institutional Search Hub.
Library Company of Philadelphia Finding Aids Added to Search Hub

Finding aids for the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia are now included in the Consortium's Cross-Institutional Search Hub.
CFA: Linda Hall Library fellowship program

Applications are due January 15, 2021
CFA: Residential Summer Institute at The Huntington

Applications are open for "Anthroforming the Landscape: A Historical View from Asia" July 5-9, 2021
New Tenure-Track Position in History of Medicine

The Department of the History of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine invites applications for tenure-track faculty at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor.

Upcoming Events

Monday, November 30, 2020 12:15 pm EST
Jayita Sarkar
Ploughshares and Swords: Technopolitics and Geopolitics in India's Nuclear Program
Harvard University
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:30 pm EST
Janet Tyson, Birkbeck, University of London
Considering the Source - Elizabeth Blackwell’s Herbal
Wellcome Collection
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 12:30 pm EST
Janet Tyson
Considering the source of Elizabeth Blackwell’s ‘A Curious Herbal’
Wellcome Collection
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 4:00 pm EST
How Are Museums Collecting Around COVID-19?
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 12:00 pm EST
History of Anthropology
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 1:00 pm EST
Allison Bigelow
Mining Language: Racial Thinking, Indigenous Knowledge, and Colonial Metallurgy in the Early Modern Iberian World
Science History Institute
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 3:00 pm EST
Joseph D. Martin
When Condensed Matter Physics Became King
American Institute of Physics
Wednesday, December 2, 2020 6:30 pm EST
Meggie Crnic
Seeking Health at the Seashore
Wagner Free Institute of Science
Thursday, December 3, 2020 5:00 pm EST
Rebecca Szantyr
Carbon Futures: Cultivating Coal Consumption in the Second Quarter of the 19th CenturyF THE 19TH CENTURY
The Library Company of Philadelphia
Friday, December 4, 2020 9:00 am EST
History of Science in Asia: Decolonizing the History of Science
Consortium Working Group

Smilodon floridanus (saber-tooth cat) type specimen, “Description of mammalian remains from a rock crevice in Florida” by Joseph Leidy. Transactions of the Wagner Free Institute of Science, Volume 2, 1890. Image courtesy of the WFI.