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Hagley History Hangout Podcast - New Episode - Innovation and Markets in the Beauty and Fashion Industry with Denise Sutton [Announcement]
Hagley History Hangout Podcast - New Episode - Innovation and Markets in the Beauty and Fashion Industry with Denise Sutton
Tune in here or wherever you find podcasts: https://www.hagley.org/research/history-hangout-denise-sutton
Innovation plays a role in the beauty and fashion industry as it does in any line of business. New products, new techniques, and new markets animate the industry, and punctuate its history.
In her latest book project, Dr. Denise Sutton, associate professor at the City University of New York, examines several case studies in fashion and beauty innovation. From ready-to-wear apparel for pregnant women, to beauty products for people of color, to Kevlar attire in hazardous workplaces, each case demonstrates the centrality of innovation to the business of fashion.
In support of her work Dr. Sutton received funding from the Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society at the Hagley Museum and Library. For more information, and more Hagley History Hangouts, visit us online at hagley.org.
To make a donation underwriting this program and others like it please visit our Eventbrite page.
Dr. Gregory A. Hargreaves
Assistant Director
Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
Hagley Museum and Library
APS History of Science Fellowships 2026-27 [Announcement]
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United States
John C. Slater Predoctoral Fellowship in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
January 16, 2026
This nine-month fellowship is offered to advanced Ph.D. students working on topics related to the history of science, technology, and medicine.
APS/CSHL Undergraduate Summer Internship in the History of Biology
Due February 2, 2026
The American Philosophical Society’s Center for the History of Science and the Center for Humanities and the History of Modern Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory invite applications for a joint summer internship program for undergraduates working on junior or senior research projects related to the history of the life sciences.
Brenna Holland (bhol...@amphilsoc.org)
Thomas Johns (tjo...@amphilsoc.org)
H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Sci-Med-Tech: 28 September - 5 October [Announcement]
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 28 September to 5 October. These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the network editors for H-Announce. See the H-Net job guide web site at https://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobg...@mail.h-net.org or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 AM and 5 PM US Eastern time.
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Tohoku University - Open Rank Faculty Positions in Japanese Studies at the Center for Integrated Japanese Studies, Tohoku University
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/69218/tohoku-university-open-rank-faculty-positions-japanese-studies-center-integrated
Harvard University - Fellows-in-Residence Program
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/69255/harvard-university-fellows-residence-program
University of California - Irvine - History of Technology
https://networks.h-net.org/jobs/69257/university-california-irvine-history-technology
Call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
Cambridge History of Medicine Seminars
History of Medicine Seminars, Michaelmas Term 2025
History of Modern Medicine and Biology
Organised by Rosanna Dent, Nick Hopwood, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov
14 October
Avey Nelson and Kate O'Riordan (University of Sussex)
Thylacine stories: mapping de-extinction
11 November
Timothy Sim (HPS, University of Cambridge)
Dengue in Campaign City: the spectacle of mosquito control in postcolonial Singapore
25 November
Miguel Garcia-Sancho (University of Edinburgh)
Infrastructures, power and filiation: genetic information and the quest for the 'stolen babies' of Spain
Early Science and Medicine
Organised by Philippa Carter and Emma Perkins
21 October
Martha McGill (English, University of Cambridge)
Memory, cognition and selfhood in early modern Britain
4 November
Eva Johanna Holmberg (University of Helsinki)
Experiencing and alleviating pain in a settler colony: Jamestown, 1607–1610
2 December
Mark Jenner (University of York)
A press of death and prices? Reframing London's Bills of Mortality
Generation to Reproduction
Organised by Philippa Carter, Nick Hopwood, Rosanna Dent, Staffan Müller-Wille and Dmitriy Myelnikov
28 October
Tatjana Buklijas (University of Auckland)
The fetus and the lamb: clinical trials and reproductive risks since the 1960s
18 November
Róisín Donohoe (National Library of Ireland)
Devotion and deliverance: childbirth in middle English manuscripts
Centre for the History of Medicine, Science, and Technology (CHMST), University of Warwick, UK
On behalf of the Co-Directors, Dr Sophie Mann and Dr Elise Smith:
We’re delighted to announce the launch of the Centre for the History of Medicine, Science, and Technology (CHMST) at the University of Warwick.
Founded in 1999, the Centre for the History of Medicine relaunched in October 2025 as the Centre for the History of Medicine, Science, and Technology. You can read about the longer history of the Centre here.
The Centre is based within the History Department, but we collaborate as part of interdisciplinary projects across the university and beyond.
If you happen to be in the Midlands on Wednesday 15 October 2025, do come along to our launch party.
Otherwise, you can keep up with all things CHMST on our updated website, including work-in-progress, a journal club, and ongoing research projects. (Our research seminars and work-in-progress are hybrid—check the calendar for the MS Teams link.)
We look forward to working with the wider community both in the UK and internationally. Do get in contact or join our mailing list via hist...@warwick.ac.uk
Two essays free for limited time
The Journal of Democracy's new October issue features two essays (relevant to this network) that will be FREE through October 30 (summaries below).
- Artificial intelligence could erode political deliberation, exacerbate economic inequality, and render the information landscape undemocratic, write Dean Jackson and Samuel Wooley. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/970355
- The Chinese Communist Party is intensifying state control by using AI networks as spy tools, warns Valentin Weber. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/970356
Funding Deadline: The BHC Henry Kaufman Financial History Fellowship Program - November 1st [Announcement]
FUNDING OPPORTUNITY
DEADLINE APPROACHING
The Henry Kaufman Financial History Fellowship Program from the Business History Conference
RESEARCH and DISSERTATION fellowships
Application deadline NOVEMBER 1st
Endowed by and named in honor of renowned economist Henry "Dr. Doom" Kaufman
For more information and to apply: https://thebhc.org/henry-kaufman-financial-history-fellowship-program-0
Dr. Gregory A. Hargreaves
Coordinator
Henry Kaufman Financial History Fellowship Program
Business History Conference
CFP: ESHS/HSS "Science and/as Liability"
Science and/as Liability
ESHS/HSS, July 13 - 16, 2026
Why do institutions disavow certain kinds of knowledge-making? This is a call for papers that explore the history of science and medicine through its dissonance with legal frameworks and institutional politics. We are seeking papers that examine controversies, clashes, and friction between scientific or medical projects and the places that host them. This panel considers the conditions under which formerly acceptable, or even exciting, science is transformed into liability. Liability in this sense is broadly construed – historical explorations of extreme expense, poor public relations, shifting political climate, or legal problems that radically altered science’s institutional palatability in any geographical context in modern history are welcomed. We envision contributions that explore histories across diverse scientific disciplines, ultimately considering how scientists, policymakers, administrations, and publics determine to what responsibilities and risks they are willing to incur for the production of knowledge.
For scholars interested in contributing to this panel, please send abstracts to bri...@sas.upenn.edu before November 7th.
Postgraduate Funding Opportunities for MPhil and PhD in History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine at Cambridge
The Department offers two master’s programmes:
The Department will hold online workshops for MPhil and PhD applicants on Tuesday 4 November as part of the University of Cambridge Virtual Postgraduate Open Days. The MPhil session is at 3.45pm (UK time) and the PhD session at 4.45pm. Led by the departmental Director of Postgraduate Education (Nick Hopwood), both workshops will explain our admissions requirements and procedures, with advice about securing references and applying for funding. For PhD applicants, there will also be guidance on finding a workable topic and potential supervisors and writing a convincing proposal. To book a place on the Open Days, which run from 3 to 14 November, go to <https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/openday>.
Scholarship opportunities accessible by University-wide competition include:
- Cambridge Trust Scholarships (MPhil and PhD)
- Gates Cambridge Scholarships (MPhil and PhD)
- Harding Distinguished Postgraduate Scholarships (PhD only)
- AHRC Doctoral Landscape Awards (PhD only)
- Churchill College History and Philosophy of Science Studentship (PhD only)
To be eligible for these awards you will need to submit your postgraduate application by 11.59pm (UK time) on 2 December 2025. (Gates applicants who are US citizens normally resident in the USA have an earlier deadline of 15 October.) Initial offers of funding will be made in March, and awards will continue to be allocated until the application deadline has been reached or all the available funding has been committed.
For general information on funding for postgraduate study at the University: <https://www.postgraduate.study.cam.ac.uk/funding>.
Please address questions about postgraduate study at Cambridge HPS to pga...@hps.cam.ac.uk.
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