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New Online Working Groups for 2023-2024

Join an online working group for exciting monthly discussions on specialized topics in history of science, technology and medicine.
Forum

IsisCB on Pandemics: Fundamental Concepts in Understanding Pandemic Diseases

Join Lukas Engelmann, Jacob Steere-Williams and Dora Vargha for a discussion of epidemiology, vaccinations and syndemics.
Forum

The National Academy of Sciences in the American Democracy: A History

The Albert M. Greenfield Forum for History of Science: Ruth Schwartz Cowan, Daniel J. Kevles and Peter Westwick preview their book on the history of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

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Hosting the Consortium

The Consortium invites proposals for its next institutional host, which would place it at the center of a vibrant community including leading and emerging scholars from around the world.
NLM Welcomes Applications to its Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine for 2024

The NLM Michael E. DeBakey Fellowship in the History of Medicine provides individual awards of up to $10,000 to support research in the historical collections of the National Library of Medicine.
2023-2024 NEH Fellows

The Consortium welcomes new NEH Fellows for 2023-2024.
CFP: Health and Socialism: of Shortages and Solidarity

The research project “Socialist Medicine: an Alternative Global Health History”, funded by the ERC Starting Grant SOCMED, invites us to rethink the emergence of global health in the 20th century. The project aims to broaden the scope of global health history by redirecting the focus of research in terms of place, people, and institutions to the socialist world. Demarcated as a fluctuating constellation of Eastern European, Asian, Latin American and African countries connected through political ideology, expert networks, economic development, aid, and military interventions, the project centres socialist countries in the Cold War.
2023-2024 Emanuel Fellows

The Consortium's Emanuel Fellows for 2023-2024 are working on exciting new projects at the intersection of animal history and history of science, technology and medicine.
Rumen Nation: Cattle and Sustainability in the United States

Read about Albert M. Greenfield Research Fellow Nicole Welk-Joerger's research into the history of ruminology, and how a niche corner of animal science helped shape agribusiness and the role of beef and cattle in American food culture.
CFP: VII Doctoral School of Social and Political Studies on Science and Technology

As part of its efforts to increase communications between the United States and Latin America, the Red de Estudios de Ciencias y Saberes en Latinoamérica y el Caribe (RECSLAC) is pleased to co-sponsor the VII Escuela Doctoral de Estudios Sociales y Políticos sobre la Ciencia y la Tecnología (ESOC
Strauss Fellowship in Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies

The Cedars-Sinai Center for Medicine, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MHGS) invites applications for the 2023–2024 Strauss Fellowship from early-career scholars: ABDs, postdocs and assistant professors (or the equivalent professional stage).

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Upcoming Events

Thursday, June 8, 2023 10:00 am EDT

Plants in Africa and the Global South: Multi-Species Materialities, Ecologies, and Aesthetics (MMEA)

Thursday, June 8, 2023 12:00 pm EDT

Ethics and/in the History of Medicine and the Human Sciences

Thursday, June 8, 2023 12:00 pm EDT

Anne Harrington

Tripping into an Uncertain Future: Historical Perspective on the Resurgence of Psychedelics in Psychiatry

Thursday, June 8, 2023 3:00 pm EDT

Women in Science: Achievement and Barriers

Friday, June 9, 2023 9:00 am EDT

Writing the History of COVID-19: Lessons for the Next Pandemic

Friday, June 9, 2023 11:00 am EDT

Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health

Friday, June 9, 2023 1:30 pm EDT

Energy History

Monday, June 12, 2023 11:00 am EDT

Medieval European Medical Manuscripts

Monday, June 12, 2023 6:00 pm EDT

Tabb Sullivan

SCIENCE ON TAP: Bacteriophage and Us: Harnessing the Power of the Puppet Master

Thursday, June 15, 2023 7:00 pm EDT

Sarah Naramore

Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic

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