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Perspectives on "Race Science" and Scientific Racism: Stephen Kenny

In this episode of our series on race and science, Stephen Kenny scrutinizes the career of surgeon Rudolph Matas, putting his life and work in the context of slavery, segregation, and racialized medicine in the U.S. South. Kenny highlights how Matas used medical photography to legitimate a racialized research agenda.
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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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The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry: A Conversation with Wendy Gonaver

In this episode of Perspectives, we speak with Wendy Gonaver about the state of psychiatry in the pre- and post-Civil War American South, and the ways that race, gender, and class governed the care provided by psychiatric institutions.

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CFP: Circulation of Images in the Life Sciences

This online workshop will explore the role of images in the history of biological research. Proposals are due June 14.
Executive Director, History of Science Society

The History of Science Society seeks a visionary Executive Director. Founded in 1924, the Society is dedicated to understanding science, technology, and medicine in historical context.
Science History Institute Receives CLIR Grant to Digitize Papers of Georg and Max Bredig

Collection Smuggled Out of Nazi Germany Tells Story of Noted German Jewish Scientist’s Rise to Prominence and His Family’s Struggle to Survive the Holocaust.
New Position at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Applications are being accepted for a Historian of Life Science.
Update on Our Member Institutions' Research Policies

Find out the latest information on the research policies of our member institutions during the pandemic.
Deadline Extended: Residential Summer Institute at The Huntington

Applications are open for "Anthroforming the Landscape: A Historical View from Asia," July 5-9, 2021
Consortium Research Fellowships Available

Apply by April 15 to become a Consortium Research Fellow.
New Working Groups for 2021

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

Thursday, April 22, 2021 12:00 pm EDT
Melinda Baldwin
Healing India's Open Sore': Leper Asylums and the Medical-Evangelical Empire in British India
Princeton University
Thursday, April 22, 2021 2:00 pm EDT
History of Science, Technology and Medicine in Latin America
Consortium Working Group
Friday, April 23, 2021 12:00 pm EDT
History of Science in Asia: Decolonizing the History of Science
Consortium Working Group
Friday, April 23, 2021 3:30 pm EDT
Brent Purkaple
For now we see through a mirror dimly': Jesuit Optics and Visual Culture
University of Oklahoma
Monday, April 26, 2021 11:00 am EDT
Colonial Science in the German Empire
Consortium Working Group
Monday, April 26, 2021 12:15 pm EDT
Ed Hackett
Sociological Ambivalence Revisited
Harvard University
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 6:00 pm EDT
History of Earth and Environmental Sciences
Consortium Working Group
Wednesday, April 28, 2021 1:00 pm EDT
New Histories of Psychology: Politics, Publics, and Power
Consortium Working Group
Thursday, April 29, 2021 11:00 am EDT
Medieval European Medical Manuscripts
Consortium Working Group
Thursday, April 29, 2021 1:00 pm EDT
Watching the Stars and Skies: Citizen Science in the Past
American Philosophical Society