News and Notes
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Mechanical Kingdoms: Sound Technologies and the Avant-Garde, 1930-1933
July 26, 2018
Lauren Rosati, City University of New York, Graduate Center
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Hagley Library Acquires the James W. Cortada Collection of Information Technology Publications
July 26, 2018
This collection consists of an estimated 5,000 titles on the general subject of computers, information technology, society, the internet and the economic and business issues involving computers from the 1940s through 2017.
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American Women in Physics: Their Higher Education and Sites of Practice, 1870-1940
July 11, 2018
Joanna Behrman, Johns Hopkins University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Making the Peripheral Central: Rural Healthcare, Nursing, and the Anglo-World, 1887-1939
June 28, 2018
Martha Groppo, Princeton University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Characterizing Northern Nature in the Eighteenth Century
June 20, 2018
Emelin Miller, University of Minnesota
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
May 2018 Newsletter
June 13, 2018
Learn about our latest updates in the May 2018 Consortium Newsletter. In this issue, you can find: new fellowship opportunities; profiles of incomming fellows; updates on our working groups; public events programming; news from our fellows; collections spotlight on the Adler Planetarium; information on newly aquired or processed archival collections.
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Calculating the Substance of Human Life: The Emergence of Nutritional Studies in Britain 1918-1941
June 7, 2018
Alma Igra, Columbia University
2017 to 2018 Research Fellow -
Apply for 2019-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship on Kinship at the Wolf Center for the Humanities
May 24, 2018
The Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its 2019-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities on the general theme of Kinship. Application Deadline: October 15, 2018
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Call for Papers: Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine, Networks of Health and Healing
May 15, 2018
The Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Medicine (JAS Med) will take place October 5-6, 2018, at Yale University. The meeting is convened annually for the presentation of research by young scholars working on the history of medicine and public health. Proposals are due June 15, 2018.
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Rockefeller Archive Center Opens Collection on 1980s Ford Foundation AIDS Initiative
May 3, 2018
Ford Foundation records, Rights and Social Justice Program, AIDS Initiative provides important information on early attempts to address the AIDS epidemic.