Cold Spring Harbor Library is accepting applications until August 31.
Do Less Harm: Ethical Questions for Health Historians
Editors Courtney E. Thompson and Kylie M. Smith bring together a group of leading historians and scholars to confront one of the most pressing questions in health history: How can we ethically approach stories of medicine and health without perpetuating harm?Propose a New Working Group for 2026-2027
The Consortium invites proposals for new online working groups focusing on specialized topics in the history of science, technology or medicine.Apply for 2026-2027 Research Fellowships
Research Fellowships are for scholars at any level, who are independent or affiliated with any institution, and would like to conduct research in the collections of two or more Consortium member institutions.Apply for this APS fellowship by April 19.
Applications are now being accepted for travel fellowships and grants to support research in the medical historical collections of the Cushing/Whitney Medical Library. Apply before midnight April 26, 2026.
Samantha Muka explores the history and politics of waste management in coastal environments.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory requests abstracts for oral or poster presentations. Due March 9th.
Katherine White uses rare editions of early modern books in Consortium collections to trace different sources of medical knowledge in the Spanish Empire.
Arnold Thackray, former member of the Consortium Board of Directors, views his long career through the lens of the United States’ rise and fall as a global power.
A special issue of PhotoResearcher produced by the working group on “Color Photography in the 19th Century and Early 20th Century: Sciences, Technologies, Empires.”
On April 10–11, 2026, Johns Hopkins University will host the sixtieth Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology.
The deadline for abstracts is March 1, 2026.
Robert Hancock uses Consortium collections to uncover the role that indigenous scholars played in developing the field.
Friday, April 3, 2026, 11:00 am EDT
Consortium Working Group
Monday, April 6, 2026, 3:45 pm EDT
Courtney Thompson
Yale University
Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 4:00 pm EDT
Blanka Amezkua, Nuria Galland, Stephanie Reitzig
Columbia University
Thursday, April 9, 2026, 10:00 am EDT
Consortium Working Group
Friday, April 10, 2026, 5:00 pm EDT
Consortium Working Group
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