News and Notes
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Characterizing Northern Nature in the Eighteenth Century
June 20, 2018
What does the Arctic reveal about the intersection of science and imperialism?
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May 2018 Newsletter
June 13, 2018
Learn about our latest updates in the May 2018 Consortium Newsletter. In this issue, you can find: new fellowship opportunities; profiles of incomming fellows; updates on our working groups; public events programming; news from our fellows; collections spotlight on the Adler Planetarium; information on newly aquired or processed archival collections.
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Calculating the Substance of Human Life: The Emergence of Nutritional Studies in Britain 1918-1941
June 7, 2018
In the early twentieth century, Anglo-American collaborations in science and philanthropy brought about new standardized understandings of nutrition.
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Apply for 2019-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship on Kinship at the Wolf Center for the Humanities
May 24, 2018
The Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its 2019-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities on the general theme of Kinship. Application Deadline: October 15, 2018
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Call for Papers: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine, Networks of Health and Healing
May 15, 2018
The Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine (JAS Med) will take place October 5-6, 2018, at Yale University. The meeting is convened annually for the presentation of research by young scholars working on the history of medicine and public health. Proposals are due June 15, 2018.
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Rockefeller Archive Center Opens Collection on 1980s Ford Foundation AIDS Initiative
May 3, 2018
Ford Foundation records, Rights and Social Justice Program, AIDS Initiative provides important information on early attempts to address the AIDS epidemic.
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Hagley Patent Model Collection on Exhibition in China
May 2, 2018
In partnership with Tsinghua University in Beijing, the Hagley Museum and Library is exhibiting dozens of nineteenth-century patent models in four Chinese cities.
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Custom-Made Machines in an Era of Mass Production
April 26, 2018
Mass production of cotton textiles depended upon preexisting artisanal expertise, demonstrating the significance of local agency in the history of industrial technology.
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Call for Papers: 2018 Artefacts Meeting
April 16, 2018
The 2018 Artefacts meeting will be held October 14-16 at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago. This year's theme is "Relevance of Collections." Proposals are due July 20.
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APS Catalog of Duhamel du Monceau/Fougeroux de Bondaroy Papers Updated
March 22, 2018
The American Philosophical Society Archivist Tracey deJong has finished cataloging to current standards the papers of Duhamel du Monceau and his nephew Fougeroux de Bondaroy, important men of scien