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Apply for 2020-2021 Consortium Fellowships

The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed.
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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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October 2019 Newsletter

Read about the Consortium's newest member, news about fellows and fellowships, working groups, and the collections of member institutions.

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Seminal Ideas: The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and his Contemporaries

Investigating Robert Boyle's role in the development of the life sciences
CFP: "Evidence: The Use and Misuse of Data"

Inspired by its 2020 exhibition Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, the American Philosophical Society Library & Museum is organizing a daylong symposium that explores the nature of evidence.
Fellowships and Travel Grants from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center

Through its fellowships and travel grants, the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation supports research projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society.
The Smithsonian Libraries offering Dibner Library and Baird Society Fellowships

The Smithsonian Libraries has just opened applications for our two Special Collections fellowship programs: the Dibner Library Resident Scholar Program and the Baird Society Resident Scholar Program. Deadlines for both are January 15, 2020.
Fields of Empire: Science, Ethnoscience and the Making of the American Century

Where does science end and ethnoscience begin?
University of Oklahoma Joins Consortium

The Consortium is delighted to welcome University of Oklahoma as its newest member. OU is home to one of the oldest programs in the U.S. in history of science, technology and medicine, as well as a premier research collection.
Being and Becoming a Midwife in 18th century France: Pedagogical Practices and Objects

Investigating the history of objects and practices provides new insight into hidden actors in the history of midwifery.
NYAM Digitizes Two Projects

Over 6,600 items are now available for researchers online.

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Upcoming Events

November 20, 2019

Mical Raz

Abusive Policies: Race, Class and the Making of American Child Abuse

University of Toronto

November 20, 2019

Alex Wellerstein

The ‘Best-Kept Secret of the War’?: The Successes and Failures of the Manhattan Project’s Secrecy Regime

The University Seminars at Columbia University, Columbia University in the City of New York, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, The New York Academy of Medicine, The New York Academy of Sciences
November 21, 2019

Peter Singer, Matthew Calarco, Lori Gruen

Anthropocene and Animal Studies Reading Group

University of Pennsylvania
November 21, 2019

Aviva Rothman

“The World is a Fable”: On Science and Myth in Descartes and Bacon

Johns Hopkins University
November 21, 2019

Kalina Vora

Inefficient Feeling: Care as Revoluationary Praxis at the End of Society

Yale University
November 21, 2019

Brittany Shields

ngineering Education for “Vital War Industries”: Mathematical Foundations in the US Engineering, Science and Management War Training Program during the Second World War

Villanova University
November 22, 2019

History of Psychiatry Workshop: Psychiatry as Social Medicine

Johns Hopkins University and Institute of Health and Society, University of Oslo
November 26, 2019

November Library Pop-up: Deliverance Through Diet

College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Abusive Policies: Race, Class and the Making of American Child Abuse