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Featured Event
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

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
November 1, 2018

HSS Annual Meeting

History of Science Society
November 1, 2018

Biennial Meeting: Philosophy of Science Association

Philosophy of Science Association
November 8, 2018

Meeting of the American Philosophical Society

American Philosophical Society
November 8, 2018

Safiya Umoja Noble (Annenberg School of Communication USC)

History of Science Seminars: Safiya Umoja Noble

Harvard University
November 8, 2018

Seeing Like a Capitalist: Histories of Commercial Surveillance in America.

Hagley Museum and Library
November 9, 2018

Martha Hope Carey

Solid Universe Theory

Da Vinci Art Alliance