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New Working Groups for 2021

Announcing eight new working groups this semester! Sign up for one or more groups now, and join the conversation.
Forum

Perspectives on Race Science and Scientific Racism II: Sebastián Gil-Riaño and Sadiah Qureshi

Listen to perspectives on the history of race science and scientific racism around the world; the intersection of race with issues of class, gender, and scie
Forum

Engineering Manhood

A Conversation with Jonson Miller about race, class and gender in the early history of engineering education.

News and Notes

Help to Foster Scholarship and Public Education

The Consortium is a community of people, inside and outside academia, who care deeply about science, technology and medicine, about how these fields are changing, and about how those changes affect us. These concerns have never been more relevant.
New Position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Applications are being accepted for a Historian of Life Science.
Consortium Welcomes University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Consortium is delighted to welcome its newest member institution.
CFP: The Promise and Pitfalls of Citizen Science

Proposals are due December 18 for this symposium, organized by the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum.
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

Tuesday, January 19, 2021 2:00 pm EST
History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine
Consortium Working Group
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 4:00 pm EST
Mask Up!
Smithsonian's National Museum of American History
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 6:00 pm EST
Juan Sebastián Gil-Riaño
Southern Racial Dilemmas: Brazilian Race Relations and Economic Development in the 1950s
Columbia University
Wednesday, January 20, 2021 6:30 pm EST
Janice P. Nimura
The Doctors Blackwell Book Launch
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Thursday, January 21, 2021 1:00 pm EST
Jahnavi Phalkey and Jesse Smith
Fluid Movements: Interpreting the Past, Present, and Future of Water
Science History Institute
Thursday, January 21, 2021 4:00 pm EST
History of Media Studies
Consortium Working Group
Thursday, January 21, 2021 7:00 pm EST
Emily Casey
Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences: Abolition and Empire in the Post-Revolution Atlantic World
The Library Company of Philadelphia
Monday, January 25, 2021 11:00 am EST
Colonial Science in the German Empire
Consortium Working Group
Monday, January 25, 2021 3:30 pm EST
Ahmed Ragab
HSS Workshop: Ahmed Ragab
University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 6:00 pm EST
History of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Consortium Working Group