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Black Maternal Health: Historical and Reproductive Justice Reckonings

Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens and Dr. Lynn Roberts discuss how slavery and the history of reproductive medicine intersect, the impact of medical racism on Black birthing people, the national reproductive justice movement, and recent efforts to address racial inequalities in maternal mortality and morbidity in New York City.
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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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Senior & Junior Postdocs, Dissertation Fellowships for 2021-22

The Consortium invites applications for fellowships in the history of science, technology and medicine, broadly construed.

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College of Physicians of Philadelphia Finding Aids Added to Search Hub

Finding aids for the collections of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia are now included in the Consortium's Cross-Institutional Search Hub.
Library Company of Philadelphia Finding Aids Added to Search Hub

Finding aids for the collections of the Library Company of Philadelphia are now included in the Consortium's Cross-Institutional Search Hub.
CFA: Linda Hall Library fellowship program

Applications are due January 15, 2021
CFA: Residential Summer Institute at The Huntington

Applications are open for "Anthroforming the Landscape: A Historical View from Asia" July 5-9, 2021
New Tenure-Track Position in History of Medicine

The Department of the History of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine invites applications for tenure-track faculty at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor.
CFP: Dossier on Science, Knowledge, and Society in Latin America

Deadline for submissions is January 18, 2021
Caltech Finding Aids added to Search Hub

Finding aids for the collections of the California Institute of Technology are now included in the Cross-Institutional Search Hub.
Fall 2020 Working Groups

The Consortium's working groups bring together leading and emerging scholars from around the world.

November 2, 2020
Ben Hurlbut
Can't Stop Progress: Inevitability as Authorization in the Politics of Genome Editing
Harvard University
November 3, 2020
Meekyung MacMurdie, University of Bern
The Practice of Persuasion: an Introduction to Arabic Medical Tables
Wellcome Collection
November 3, 2020
Voting During a Pandemic
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
Wednesday, November 4, 2020 12:00 pm EST
History of Anthropology
November 6, 2020
Indigenous Studies Seminar: A Review of Salish Astronomical Knowledge
American Philosophical Society
Friday, November 6, 2020 3:30 pm EST
Medicine and Health
November 9, 2020
Noelle Eckley Selin and Henrik Selin
Mercury Stories: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Analyzing Sustainability Challenges
Harvard University
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 12:00 pm EST
Early Modern Science
November 11, 2020
Sabine Clarke
The Chemical Empire: Insecticides and Locust Control in East Africa after 1940
Science History Institute
November 11, 2020
Nancy Greenspan
ATOMIC SPY: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs
American Institute of Physics