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Apply for Consortium Fellowships

Apply by December 15 for Research Fellowships, Long-Term NEH Fellowships and Emanuel Fellowships for Independent Scholars
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Burning a Monopoly: Kerosene and Anti-monopoly Politics Against Standard Oil, 1848-1911

Read about Minseok Jang's research exploring energy history and the anti-trust movement during the transition to artificial lighting and kerosene.
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Addictive Forms: Opium, Physiology, and the Stimulable Empire in the Nineteenth Century

Read about the research of Consortium Fellow Menglu Gao, as she rethinks the conceptual relationship between addiction and empire in the nineteenth century, based on her research in the collections of the Wellcome and Yale University.

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AIP Opportunities for PhD Students & Postdocs

The American Institute of Physics is offering a Grant-in-aid program and an Early-Career Conference, ideal for PhD students and postdocs working anywhere in the world in the history of the physical sciences.
Going Nuclear: The Rise of the Brazilian Nuclear Industry

Read about Jennifer Eaglin's project on the development and legacies of Brazil's nuclear energy industry.
Rockefeller Archive Center accessions Miklos Müller oral history and István Deák interview

The new accessions will add to research in the history of science during the Cold War.
Beer History Studies Fellowship at Newberry Library

Application deadline is January 3, 2025.
University of Illinois Receives NEH Grant to Amplify Access to the Archives of Women Scientists

The University of Illinois Library has received a $60,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to create digital resources and the foundation for a network of partners that amplifies access to the digitized archives of women scientists, focusing initially on the domestic science movement.
Explore Medicine on Screen from the National Library of Medicine

Medicine on Screen is a curated portal to the National Library of Medicine (NLM) historical audiovisual collections.
Book Launch ~ Challenging Stories: Exploring the Intersections between Health and the Humanities

Join the National Institute of Health to celebrate the open-access publication of Challenging Stories: Exploring the Intersections between Health and the Humanities.
Research Fellowships from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center

Applications are due October 15, 2024.

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Upcoming Events

Tuesday, October 29, 2024 5:30 pm EDT

David Hellerstein, Jake Perlson

Will Psychedelics Transform Psychiatry? "The Couch, the Clinic, the Scanner, and the Mushroom"

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 4:30 pm EDT

Laura Hutchingame

Crafting Ship Hull Ceilings: Timber, Shipbuilding, and Artisanal Knowledge in the Late Medieval Adriatic

Thursday, October 31, 2024 12:00 pm EDT

Russell Johnson

Five Centuries of Collecting Vesaliana

Thursday, October 31, 2024 12:00 pm EDT

Anin Luo

Immunology in the Tropics: Malnutrition, Infection, and Health in a Welfare World

Thursday, October 31, 2024 3:00 pm EDT

Jennifer Rampling

Trick or Treatise?: Alchemical Magic in Early Modern England

Friday, November 1, 2024 12:00 pm EDT

Collections and Collecting

Monday, November 4, 2024 12:30 pm EST

Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 12:00 pm EST

History of Anthropology

Wednesday, November 6, 2024 4:00 pm EST

John F. Hall

The Mathematical Writings of Antoine Parent

Thursday, November 7, 2024 11:30 am EST

Dean Linda Fried, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

Building the Worlds That Kill Us

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