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Apply for 2020-2021 Consortium Fellowships

The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed.
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Propose a New Working Group

The Consortium invites proposals for new online working groups focusing on specialized topics in the history of science, technology or medicine.
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October 2019 Newsletter

Read about the Consortium's newest member, news about fellows and fellowships, working groups, and the collections of member institutions.

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Seminal Ideas: The Forces of Generation for Robert Boyle and his Contemporaries

Investigating Robert Boyle's role in the development of the life sciences
CFP: "Evidence: The Use and Misuse of Data"

Inspired by its 2020 exhibition Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, the American Philosophical Society Library & Museum is organizing a daylong symposium that explores the nature of evidence.
Fellowships and Travel Grants from the Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center

Through its fellowships and travel grants, the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation supports research projects that present creative approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society.
The Smithsonian Libraries offering Dibner Library and Baird Society Fellowships

The Smithsonian Libraries has just opened applications for our two Special Collections fellowship programs: the Dibner Library Resident Scholar Program and the Baird Society Resident Scholar Program. Deadlines for both are January 15, 2020.
Fields of Empire: Science, Ethnoscience and the Making of the American Century

Where does science end and ethnoscience begin?
University of Oklahoma Joins Consortium

The Consortium is delighted to welcome University of Oklahoma as its newest member. OU is home to one of the oldest programs in the U.S. in history of science, technology and medicine, as well as a premier research collection.
Being and Becoming a Midwife in 18th century France: Pedagogical Practices and Objects

Investigating the history of objects and practices provides new insight into hidden actors in the history of midwifery.
NYAM Digitizes Two Projects

Over 6,600 items are now available for researchers online.

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Upcoming Events

November 13, 2019

Mackenzie Cooley

Canine Mestizaje: The Dogs of New Spain

University of Toronto

November 13, 2019

Sandra Rebok

Weeknights at the Wagner: Charting the Course of Knowledge with Alexander von Humboldt

Wagner Free Institute of Science
November 13, 2019

David S. Jones

Vaccination Controversies Then and Now: Boston in 1721 and 1901

Harvard University
November 14, 2019

Kate Brown

Controversy over Chernobyl Health Consequences: A case of slow science or undone science?
November 14, 2019

Ruha Benjamin

A New Jim Code?: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

Yale University
November 14, 2019

David J. Silverman

This Land Is Their Land

American Philosophical Society
November 14, 2019

Louise Hide

Closing the Asylums

The Wellcome Collection
November 18, 2019

Hannah Marcus

Medicine and the Censorship of Science in Early Modern Europe

University of Pennsylvania
November 18, 2019

Michael Rodriguez

Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Quest for Demographic Recognition

Yale University
November 19, 2019

Elizabeth Neswald

The Color of the Collection: Material History and Diabetic Sugar Monitoring in the 20th Century

Science History Institute

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Canine Mestizaje: The Dogs of New Spain