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Perspectives on "Race Science" and Scientific Racism: Andy Evans

Andy Evans discusses the history of "race science" in Germany before 1933, describing how Germany's nineteenth-century liberal anthropological tradition transmogrified into a hierarchical and racist "science" in the early twentieth century.
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Building the Population Bomb - A Discussion with Emily Merchant

Emily Merchant explores the history of population growth modeling and the ideological and intellectual battles over the concept of overpopulation.
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Taking Nazi Technology - A Discussion with Douglas O'Reagan

Douglas O'Reagan details the largest-scale effort at technology transfer in world history, and conveys the importance of tacit knowledge and situational context for knowledge creation.

News and Notes

The Science History Institute Receives NEH SHARP Grant for ‘White Coats, Black Lives’ Project

The Science History Institute has been awarded a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of its Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan (SHARP) funding.
Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience at Columbia University

The Presidential Scholars in Society and Neuroscience (PSSN) program at Columbia University invites applications for interdisciplinary postdoctoral positions to begin on July 1, 2022.
Update on Our Member Institutions' Research Policies

Find out the latest information on the research policies of our member institutions during the pandemic.
Search Consortium Collections by Type of Format

Researchers can now search collections of the Consortium's member institutions by types of format, such as books, pictures, videos, microform, manuscripts collections, and other formats.
Consortium Welcomes University of Maryland-College Park

The Consortium is delighted to welcome its newest member, the University of Maryland at College Park.
Tenure-track Position in History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

Review of applications will begin October 15, 2021
Faculty Position in the History of the Modern Physical Sciences

Review of applications will begin on October 15
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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Upcoming Events

Monday, January 17, 2022 10:00 am EST
History of Science in Early South Asia
Consortium Working Group
Monday, January 17, 2022 11:00 am EST
Celebrating Black Botanists & Harriet Tubman Read-Aloud
Wagner Free Institute of Science
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 2:00 pm EST
History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine
Consortium Working Group
Tuesday, January 18, 2022 6:00 pm EST
History of Technology
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 10:30 am EST
History of Media Studies
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 12:00 pm EST
History of Evolution and Heredity in Brazil
Consortium Working Group
Friday, January 21, 2022 10:00 am EST
Engineering Studies
Consortium Working Group
Friday, January 21, 2022 12:00 pm EST
Visual Cultures in Natural History, the Life Sciences, and Medicine
Consortium Working Group
Monday, January 24, 2022 11:00 am EST
Colonial Science in the German Empire
Consortium Working Group
Tuesday, January 25, 2022 1:00 pm EST
Andrew Wehrman, Endrina Tay, Diane Ehrenpreis, and Elizabeth Chew in conversation with Andrew O'Shaughnessy
The Spirit of Inquiry in the Age of Jefferson
American Philosophical Society

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