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News of the Consortium: February 22, 2026
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Apply for 2026-2027 Consortium Research Fellowships
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The Consortium invites applications for research fellowships in the history of science, technology or medicine, broadly construed. Fellows enjoy access to the archives and collections of Consortium member institutions as well as seminars and other programs dedicated to promoting scholarship.
Research Fellowships are for scholars at any level, who are independent or affiliated with any institution, and would like to conduct research in the collections of two or more Consortium member institutions.
To apply, please use the online application form. The website also features: information about the fellowship programs of member institutions; descriptions of the exceptional collections in the museums, archives, and libraries of the Consortium; and a Consortium-wide search hub for rare books and manuscripts.
Applications must be submitted online by April 15, 2026.
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The Consortium's working groups are held online and are open to all interested scholars. Each working group convenes monthly for discussions of works-in-progress or important published texts on a wide variety of specialized subfields in history of science, technology and medicine. Join one or more groups, and participate in the conversation.
You can also submit a paper for discussion in one of the working groups.
All times listed below are EST (UTC-5:00). Log in at www.chstm.org, and set your time zone for the correct local time for each meeting.
History of Science in Early South Asia
Monday, February 23, 2026, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm EST
"Palmistry or the system of the bodily lines (Rekhāśāstra) and its spread westward"
Kenneth Zysk, University of Copenhagen
Insect Humanities
Monday, February 23, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:30 pm EST
"Storying insect decline: the cultural side of insect loss in the age of extinction"
Eline Tabak, Oulu University
History of Technology
Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 1:00 - 2:30 pm EST
"New Industrial Interest in Mining and Rare Earths: Historical Perspectives"
Fred Quivik, Michigan Technological University
Hidden Hands in Colonial Natural Histories
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 10:00 - 11:30 am EST
"How Enslaved East Africans Shaped the Production and Circulation of Occult Knowledge Across the Omani Empire "
Ahmed Y. AlMaazmi, United Arab Emirates University
Medieval European Medical Manuscripts
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
"The Tacuinum Sanitatis and monastic life. Some considerations on the MS.MSL.139 at Wellcome Collection, London"
Benedetta Mariani, University of East Anglia
Engineering Studies
Friday, February 27, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm EST
"Wood, Iron, and History: How Stories Have Shaped Materials and Structures—and Stopped Us from Learning About the Reinvention of Construction"
Gregory Dreicer
Beauty Studies in the Premodern World
Monday, March 2, 2026, 2:00 - 3:30 pm EST
"Early Modern Hair Dye Recipes"
Victoria Munn, University of Auckland
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Monday, February 23, 2026, 4:00 pm EST
Domestic Science Archives Edit-a-thon - Session 1
Yale University
Monday, February 23, 2026, 4:30 pm EST
Emergent Medicine, Emergent Economies: The Political Whiteness of Emergency Medicine in Globalizing Los Angeles
Nic John Ramos
Smithsonian Institution
Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 1:00 pm EST
Innovative Lives: Dr. Harry Edwards
Harry Edwards, Damion Thomas
Princeton University
Tuesday, February 24, 2026, 4:30 pm EST
City on a Helix: The Growth of the Biotechnology Industry in Cambridge
Robin Wolfe Scheffler
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wednesday, February 25, 2026, 12:00 pm EST
Domestic Science Archives Edit-a-thon - Session 2
American Institute of Physics
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 6:00 pm EST
City of Knowledge: Science, Power & Place
Greg Good, Teasel Muir-Harmony, Sara Grossman
Linda Hall Library
Thursday, February 26, 2026, 7:00 pm EST
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars: An Evening with Astronaut Eileen Collins
Colonel Eileen Collins
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Friday, February 27, 2026, 12:00 pm EST
Domestic Science Archives Edit-a-thon - Session 3
Columbia University
Monday, March 2, 2026, 12:00 pm EST
Of Plants and People: Looking Through a Medicinal Plant Biotechnology Lens
Nokwanda P. Makunga
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