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Caltech Special Collections Added to Consortium Search Hub

Listings of more than 1,000 rare books on the history of science are now integrated into our multi-institutional catalog.
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Strange Beauty: Botanical Collection, Preservation, and Display in the 19th Century Tropics

A materialist examination of tropical plants gives an understanding of the intersection of art and science at the center of modern ways of using and understanding tropical nature.
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Cyberdreams of the Information Age: Machines for Learning in the Cold War United States and the Soviet Union

Examining software and psychological models as a front in the Cold War

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Leishmaniases of the New World in a Historical and Global Perspective

The history of a tropical disease, often neglected by researchers and policy makers, suggests global connections of disease and healthcare.
Wellcome Collection Makes Papers of Dr. Joshua Bierer Available for Research

The papers of the pioneering psychiatrist are fully cataloged and available for research at the Wellcome Library.
Faculty position in History of Modern Life Sciences

The Department of the History of Science and Technology at The Johns Hopkins University invites applications for the position of tenure-track assistant professor in the history of the modern life sciences with the anticipated start date of July 1, 2020.
CFP: New Working Groups

Propose a new online working group to study a specialized topic in the history of science, technology or medicine.
"The People who Need Us Read Between the Lines": Eugenic Ideology in the Post WWII United States

How eugenics became "population genetics," and maintained influence into the late twentieth century
CFP: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine

Submissions are due July 15, 2019.
Abolition and the Making of Scientific Racism in the Anglophone Atlantic

Research on the cultural context of the relationship between ideas about climate and race offers new insight into debates over slavery and the development of scientific racism.
Inventing Indian Country: Race and Environment in the Black Hills, 1851-1981

Environmental disasters reveal the enduring legacies of settler colonialism and conquest.

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September 4, 2019

Theodore M. Porter

Data Madness and Heredity, 1789-1939

Columbia

September 17, 2019

Homo Textor Conference

Columbia University, the Penelope Project, Deutschs Museum
September 18, 2019

Homo Textor Conference

Columbia University, Penelope Project, Deutsches Museum
September 19, 2019

Hiro Hirai

Into the Forger’s Library: The Genesis of a Pseudo-Paracelsian Treatise in Publication History

Columbia University
November 7, 2019

Meeting of the American Philosophical Society

American Philosophical Society

Data Madness and Heredity, 1789-1939