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Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 6:00pm
Sickness and the City

Join American historian Billy Smith and epidemiologist Michael Levy for a conversation that uses both science and history to understand the intersection of urban development and the spread of contagions.
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Apply for 2019-2020 Consortium Fellowships

The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed. Opportunities include:
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October 2018 Newsletter

In the October 2018 Newsletter: Caltech joins Consortium. New fellowship program and funding. New fellows for 2018-19. Application open for 2019-20 fellowships.

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Linda Hall Library 2019-2020 Fellowships

The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2019-20 fellowship program.
Fall 2018 Fellows Update

See the latest news from Consortium fellows.
CFP: “Networks: The Creation and Circulation of Knowledge from Franklin to Facebook”

June 6-7, 2019
American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Caltech Joins Consortium

The Consortium is delighted to welcome Caltech as its newest member.
Doctrine of the Skull: Phrenology and Popular Knowledge in Antebellum America

In the nineteenth century, phrenology transformed the relationship between scientists and the public.
The H. W. Lende Manuscript Collection

The Smithsonian Libraries’ Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology has recently acquired the splendid manuscript collection of the late Henry Willard Lende, Jr, notable history of science scholar and collector.
The Records of the Consumer Health Information Center and the Records of Philly Health Info

The Historical Medical Library is pleased to announce that the Records of the Consumer Health Information Center (CHIC) and the records of its successor, Philly Health Info (PHI), have been fully processed and are ready for researcher use.
Of Mythical Families in Mythical Cities: Small Family Propaganda and the City in India, 1954-77

How changing medical technologies helped change Indian families

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Upcoming Events

October 17, 2018

Karen Kovaka (Virginia Tech)

Climate Change Denial and Beliefs About Science

University of Toronto
October 17, 2018

Latanya Sweeney, Jelani Nelson and Seun Akeju

Voices for Diversity in STEM Speaker Series

Harvard University and The Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research
October 17, 2018

Sharrona Pearl (University of Pennsylvania)

Face/Off or On? Face Transplants and the Resistance to Categorization

New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, Columbia University, City University of New York, The New York Academy of Sciences andThe New York Academy of Medicine
October 18, 2018

Matthew Hersch

Department Seminar: A Wing and a Prayer: Risky Design and the Space Shuttle

Harvard University
October 22, 2018

Hans Pols

Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies

University of Pennsylvania
October 22, 2018

Audra Wolfe

History of Science Colloquium: Science, Freedom, and the Cold War: A Political History of Apolitical Science

Princeton University
October 23, 2018

Rebecca Egil

The World of Our Dreams: How America’s Plant Explorers Transformed Our Farms and the Food We Eat

Linda Hall Library
October 25, 2018

Sophia Roosth

Department Seminar: TBA

Harvard University
October 25, 2018

Seth Lunine (University of California–Berkeley)

Groundbreaking Technology: California Dynamite and the Eastern Frontier, 1866-1886

Hagley Museum and Library
October 29, 2018

Elly Truitt (Bryn Mawr College)

HSS Workshop: Elly Truitt

University of Pennsylvania

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