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News of the Consortium: May 24, 2026
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Cold War, Public Health, and Brazil: Exploring Transnational Networks of Knowledge (1955-1978)
Read how Nathalia Gomes uses Consortium member collections to explore the layers of local and global agency in one of the world's largest disease eradication programs.

Nathalia Candido Stutz Gomes is a PhD Candidate at the Institute of International Relations, University of São Paulo, and a 2025-2026 Consortium Research Fellow.
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Insect Humanities
Tuesday, May 26, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
"Deadly Divide: How Insects, Pathogens, and People defied the U.S.-Mexico Border"
Mary Mendoza, Pennsylvania State University

Hidden Hands in Colonial Natural Histories
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EDT
"Transfer of ideas and knowledge between the medical systems of British India, and colonial Indonesia in the 19th and early 20th centuries"
Louisa-Dorothea Gehrke, Dresdren University

Color Photography in the 19th Century and Early 20th Century: Sciences, Technologies, Empires
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
"Designing Photographic Films"
Robert L. Shanebrook, Eastman Kodak Company (retired)

Beauty Studies in the Premodern World
Monday, June 1, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EDT
Seminar on Beautifying Practices in Arabic Medieval Medical Compendia: "Medical Beauty Prescriptions. A reading of al-Rāzī's Kitāb al-Manṣūrī and al-Maǧūsī's Kitāb al-Malakī"
Anna Gili, University of Padua
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American Institute of Physics
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 5:45 pm EDT
At Mme. Curie's Lab: Radioactivity and a Place for Women in Science
Dava Sobel
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