The Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Center for Humanities and the History of Modern Biology invites historians and philosophers of science to apply for the Sydney Brenner Research Fellowship at CSHL.
Friends in Odd Places: U.S.-Soviet Scientific Contacts during the Cold War
Anna Doel finds unexpectedly rich personal and professional communications between U.S. and Soviet scientists across the Iron Curtain.Psychedelics in America
Benjamin Breen and Jonathan Moreno examine the changing legal, medical and cultural perspectives on psychedelic drugs.The Anatomy of the Epidemic: Contested Illness in Twentieth Century America
Emma Broder examines controversies about psychological causes of 20th-century outbreaks now linked to chronic fatigue syndrome and long COVID, and uncovers new opportunities for research in the history of medicine.Please help the Organization of American Historians assess how budget cuts are influencing historians' research.
Paper proposals will be accepted until July 11, 2025.
Tanya Sheehan uses the collections of the NY Academy of Medicine and the Augustus C. Long Health Sciences Library at Columbia University to explore the history of artistic depictions of racial inequities in medical care.
The Consortium invites proposals for new online working groups focusing on specialized topics in the history of science, technology or medicine.
Matteo Bortolini uses his research for a biography of the anthropologist Clifford Geertz to explore theoretical questions about the historical sociology of ideas, intellectuals, and the social sciences.
Alfredo Escudero analyzes colonial Spanish capture and systematization of indigenous knowledge across the central and Southern Andes.
Greenfield Fellow Al Coppola examines what annotations tell us about the use of eighteenth-century microscopy texts held in Consortium collections.
The grant-in-aid program provides grants of up to $2,500 and applications are due April 15.
The Consortium is delighted to welcome the University of Pittsburgh as a new member.
Thursday, July 10, 2025, 10:00 am EDT
Consortium Working Group
Monday, July 14, 2025, 6:00 pm EDT
Jeffery R. Appelhans
Science History Institute
Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 11:00 am EDT
Consortium Working Group
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Tuesday, July 29, 2025, 12:00 pm EDT
Sir Mark Thompson, Dr. Harvey Alter, Dr. Timothy M Block, Dr. Jane Blumberg, Dr. Chari Cohen, Dr. Walter Tsou
American Philosophical Society
Thursday, August 14, 2025, 10:00 am EDT
Consortium Working Group
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