News and Notes
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Winter 2018 Fellows Update
December 13, 2018
See the latest news from Consortium fellows.
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Huntington Library Joins the Consortium
November 29, 2018
We are delighted to announce that the Huntington Library has become the Consortium's newest member.
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Humanism Encaged: The American Zoo, 1887-1917
November 27, 2018
At the turn of the twentieth century, zoological parks became wildly popular in the United States. The rise of the American zoo brought with it a rise in popular zoology, with wide-ranging consequences for for science, technology and medicine.
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Phonographs, Flying Machines, and the Animality of Modernity
November 8, 2018
Daniel Vandersommers, Assistant Professor at the Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities at Ball State University, and former Consortium NEH Postdoctoral Fellow, will deliver a pub
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“A Mind Prostrate”: Physicians, Opiates, and Insanity in the Civil War’s Aftermath
November 6, 2018
New research points to an opiate addiction epidemic from the nineteenth century.
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Linda Hall Library 2019-2020 Fellowships
October 9, 2018
The Linda Hall Library is now accepting applications for its 2019-20 fellowship program.
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Fall 2018 Fellows Update
October 6, 2018
See the latest news from Consortium fellows.
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October 2018 Newsletter
October 3, 2018
In the October 2018 Newsletter: Caltech joins Consortium. New fellowship program and funding. New fellows for 2018-19.
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CFP: “Networks: The Creation and Circulation of Knowledge from Franklin to Facebook”
October 3, 2018
June 6-7, 2019
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California Institute of Technology Joins Consortium
September 26, 2018
The Consortium is delighted to welcome the California Institute of Technology as its newest member.