Past Events

 

February 2020
Feb 19	What Nostalgia Was: The History of a Deadly Emotion: The New York History of Science Lecture Series 6pm-7:30pm, NYU-Gallatin, 1 Washington Pl., Room 801, New York, NY, More Information
January 2020
Jan 25	Bibliography Week Lecture: What We Talk About When We Talk About Books 11am-12:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Jan 22	Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland: The New York History of Science Lecture Series 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
November 2019
Nov 21	So Comes the Sacred Work: Disabled Soldiers and the Humanitarianism of John Galsworthy during the Great War: The Heberden Society Lecture Series 5pm-6pm, Weill Cornell Medicine, 1300 York Avenue, Uris Faculty Room (A-126), New York, NY 10065, More Information
October 2019
Oct 30	Doctors Differ: Early Medical Caricature and the Birth of the Comics Form 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
September 2019
Sep 25	Censoring Medicine in the Age of Galileo 6pm-8pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
July 2019
Jul 10	How Long Will We Wait? The Desegregation of American Hospitals 6pm-8pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
June 2019
Jun 9	The Forgotten History of Roosevelt Island: A Walking Tour, Part Three 1:30pm-3pm, Roosevelt Island Visitor Center, New York, NY, More Information
April 2019
Apr 28	The Forgotten History of Roosevelt Island: A Walking Tour, Part Two 1:30pm-3pm, Roosevelt Island Visitor Center, New York, NY, More Information
Apr 14	The Forgotten History of Roosevelt Island: A Walking Tour 1:30pm-3pm, Roosevelt Island Visitor Center, New York, NY, More Information
Apr 11	Annual Celebration of the Library: “How the Voice Made Us Human” 6pm-8pm, Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd Street, New York, NY, 10029, More Information
Apr 3	Facing the Future: Predicting and Preparing for Disease Outbreaks 6:30-8pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
March 2019
Mar 23/30	The Hospital Zone at Ellis Island: A Walking Tour 10am/11am, Castle Clinton, Battery Park, New York, NY, More Information
February 2019
Feb 26	Could Tuskegee Happen Today? 6pm-8pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Feb 6	Remembering the Dead 6:30pm-8pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
January 2019
Jan 26	Bibliography Week Lecture: ‘The Horrors of My Secret Toil’: What Frankenstein Demands of Curators 11am-12:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
November 2018
Nov 28	Disease and Disparity: Realities of the Uneven Playing Field of Public Health 6:30pm-8pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Nov 8	Meeting by Accident – An Evening with Julia Miller 6pm-8pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
October 2018
Oct 28	The Forgotten History of Roosevelt Island: A Walking Tour 1pm-3:30pm, Roosevelt Island Visitor Center, More Information
Oct 24	Sickness and the City 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Oct 21	The Forgotten History of Roosevelt Island: A Walking Tour 1pm-3:30pm, Roosevelt Island Visitor Center, More Information
Oct 20	Beyond Sims: Community Conversation 1pm-3:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Oct 18	Colored Printed Illustrations in Medical Publications 1500-1850 6pm-8pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Oct 9	Losing Hamilton, Saving New York: Dr. David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Early Republic 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
September 2018
Sept 28	The World’s Deadliest Pandemic: A Century Later 6:30pm-8pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
July 2018
Jul 23	Atlas Obscura Session After Hours: Medieval Sex and Death 6:30pm-8pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
June 2018
Jun 28	Aroused: The History of Hormones and How They Control Just About Everything 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Jun 22	American Eden: David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic 4pm-5pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
May 2018
May 22	Needlework: Some Histories of Sewing the Body 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
April 2018
Apr 24	Annual Celebration of the Library: “Reading Vesalius Across the Ages” 6:30pm-8pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
March 2018
Mar 9	Italian Tacketed Stationery Bindings Lecture with Katherine Beaty 6pm-8pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Mar 6	The Iago Galdston Lecture: “Who Needs a Doctor?: The Challenge of National Negro Health Week to the Medical Establishment” 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
February 2018
Feb 21	Navigating Care for the Most Vulnerable 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
January 2018
Jan 31	The Origins of Public Museums: Hans Sloane’s Collections and the Creation of the British Museum 6pm-7:30pm,The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Jan 27	Bibliography Week Lecture: “The Moon, Indian Medicine, and Scientific Racism” 6pm-7:30pm,The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Jan 24	The John K. Lattimer Lecture: “The Obesity Epidemic and Fast Food Marketing to African Americans” 6pm-7:30pm,The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
December 2017
November 2017
Nov 14	Unable to Breathe: Race, Asthma, and the Environment in Civil Rights Era New Orleans and New York 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
Nov 8	Atlas Obscura After Hours Session 3: Women and Medicine 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
October 2017
Oct 18	Engaging Audiences with Hybrid Collections: Archives, Books, Artifacts, Artworks 3pm-5:00pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Oct 17	A History of American War in Five Bodies 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Oct 15	Open House New York Festival 10am-5:00pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Oct 13	Art & Science Discussion Panel, The Roots of Plant Cure 6pm-8:00pm, CENTRAL BOOKING, 21 Ludlow St., New York, 10002, More Information
Oct 10	Psychiatry’s Most Misunderstood Founding Father: Adolf Meyer 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Oct 5	More Than Medicine: Social Justice and Feminist Movements for Health 6:30pm-8:00pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
September 2017
Sep 28	The Great War and Modern Veteran Care 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Sep 18	Plant Cure Brown Bag Artist’s Talk 12pm-1pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Sep 15	Atlas Obscura Session: Cookery 11am-12:15pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Sep 14	Nursing with a Message: Public Health Demonstrations in New York City 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Information
Sep 13	On the Front Lines of Reproductive Rights 6:30pm-8:00pm, Museum of the City of New York at 1220 Fifth Avenue, entrance on 104th Street, More Information
August 2017
Aug 22	Get Me Out: Childbirth in Early 20th Century NYC 6:30pm-8:00pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
Aug 16	Atlas Obscura After Hours Session 2: Astronomy and Astrology 6:30pm-8:00pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
July 2017
July 21	Atlas Obscura Daytime Session 1: Anatomical Illustrations 2pm-3:30pm, Outside The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
June 2017
Jun 13	Museum Mile Festival 6pm-9:00pm, Outside The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
Jun 12	GRUNT: The Curious Science of Humans at War 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
Jun 6	The 2017 Nahum J. Winer Lecture: “Sudden Death in Rome, 1705: Giovanni Lancisi, Pope Clement XI, and the Tale of a Book” Paul Kligfield, MD 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
Jun 5	The History of Garlic: From Medicine to Marinara 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
May 2017
May 24	Atlas Obscura After Hours Session 1: Secrets from the Past 6:30pm-8:00pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
May 20	Walking Tour of Medical Heritage Sites: Downtown 1-2:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
May 11	Facades and Fashions in Medical Architecture and the Texture of the Urban Landscape 6-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
May 10	“The Medical Legacy of War—Perspectives from the Field” 6:00PM-7:30PM, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
May 2-23	Visualizing and Drawing Anatomy Workshop The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
April 2017
Apr 26	Scent Track: What can the History of Olfaction tell us about Theorizing in the Life Sciences? 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
Apr 13	Art in the Service of Medical Education: The Robert L. Dickinson-Belskie Birth Series and the Use of Sculpture to Teach the Process of Human Development from Fertilization Through Delivery 6pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
Apr 6	Lady Mary’s Legacy: Vaccine Advocacy from The Turkish Embassy Letters to Video Games 6:00pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, Register
Apr 4	Crossing Boundaries 6:00pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
March 2017
Mar 30	Double Identity: Anomaly and the Imagination 6:30pm-8:00pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
Mar 23	The Iago Galdston Lecture: “New York City and the Chronic Disease Movement in Interwar America. 6:00pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
Mar 15	Infectious Madness, the Well Curve of the Microbial Roots of Mental Disturbance. 6:00pm-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029
February 2017
Feb 21	The John K. Lattimer Lecture: “The Marrow of Tragedy: Disease and Diversity in Civil War Medicine” 6-7:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, Free, More Info
Feb 16	Seventh Annual History of Medicine and Public Health Night 6pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, Free, More Info
Feb 7	Antibiotic Resistance: Implications for Agriculture and Health Care 6:00pm-8:00pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
January 2017
Jan 28	“How a Colonial Family Read: The Winthrops and Their Books” 11am-12:30pm, The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, New York, NY 10029, More Info
Jan 18	Book Discussion and Reception Honoring Rosemary Stevens, PhD, MPH 6-8pm, More Info
Jan 11	Friends of the Rare Book Room: Behind-the-Scenes Tour of the Morgan Library Literary Collections 4-6pm
December 2016
Dec 1	GreyLit Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 4pm-7pm
November 2016
Nov 30	Hello Islandora: Building a Digital Repository The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 10am-5pm
Nov 30	Grey Literature: Intro and Search Strategies The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 10am-1pm
Nov 28-29	18th International Conference on Grey Literature: Leveraging Diversity in Grey Literature The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Details
Nov 17	Gabriela Soto Laveaga, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara “When Mexican Physicians Take to the Streets and to Villages” The Iago Galdston Lecture Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
October 2016
Oct 26	Archives, Activism, and Change Panel Jenna Freedman, Associate Director of Communications and Zine Librarian, Barnard Library; Steven Fullwood, Curator, Schomburg Center, NYPL; Tim Johnson, Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives; and Rich Wandel, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center 7pm at The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave at 103rd Street
September 2016
Sept 27	Scott Podolsky, MD, Harvard University “The Antibiotic Era: Reform, Resistance and the Pursuit of a Rational Therapeutics” The Heberden Society Lecture Co-sponsored by the Weill Cornell Medical College’s Heberden Society Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Sept 21	The Honorable Diane Kiesel “Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee: Civil Rights Pioneer” Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Sept 15	“CONVENIENT : New York’s Love Affair With Plastics ” Part 3 of Fast, Cool & Convenient: Meeting New Yorkers’ High Demands Presented with The Museum of the City of New York Talk at 6:30pm at The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Sept 13	Anita Guerrini, PhD, Oregon State University “Animals and Humans in Louis XIV’s Paris” Talk at 6:30pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Sept 8	After Hours: Inside the Rare Book Collection of The New York Academy of Medicine Session 5: Women’s Medicine Presented by Atlas Obscura The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 6:30pm-7:45pm
August 2016
August 11	“COOL : Uncomfortable Truths About Our Air-Conditioned City” Part 2 of Fast, Cool & Convenient: Meeting New Yorkers’ High Demands Presented with The Museum of the City of New York Talk at 6:30pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
July 2016
July 21	“FAST : Reimagining Traffic in New York City” Part 1 of Fast, Cool & Convenient: Meeting New Yorkers’ High Demands Presented with The Museum of the City of New York Talk at 6:30pm at The Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
July 18	“Up!: Manhood, Democratic Writing and Walt Whitman’s Secret Health Writings” Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Jul 7	After Hours: Inside the Rare Book Collection of The New York Academy of Medicine Session 4: Medical Photography Presented by Atlas Obscura The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 6:30pm-7:45pm
June 2016
June 6-27	Visualizing and Drawing Anatomy Workshop with Kriota Willberg Mondays, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street $240 for Fellows, Members, Friends, students, and seniors; $280 for general admission. Maximum 8 people.
May 2016
May 26	Jaipreet Virdii-Dhesi, PhD, Brock University 2016 Klemperer Fellow in the History of Medicine “A Helpful Interchange of Work:” Otologists and Social Workers for the Deafened, 1910-1940 Talk at 4pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
May 24	Merlin Chowkwanyun, PhD, Columbia University “The Lincoln Collective: The World of New York City Health Activism in the 1970s” Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
May 18	Alice Dreger, PhD “Twenty-Five Years Into the Intersex Patient Rights Movement, Why Aren’t We Done?” The Lilianna Sauter Lecture Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
May 12	After Hours: Inside the Rare Book Collection of The New York Academy of Medicine Session 3: Medicinal Recipes Presented by Atlas Obscura The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 6:30pm-7:45pm
May 10	Arthur Ainsberg Author’s Night: “The Discovery of Insulin: A Miracle Drug, A Nobel Prize Controversy, and the Story of Elizabeth Hughes” 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Free, register online.
May 4	Sixth Annual History of Medicine Night – Part II 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
April 2016
Apr 14	“Stories and Heritage of Nursing in New York City” Co-sponsored by the The New York Academy of Medicine Fellows Nursing Section Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Apr 6	Caroline Duroselle-Melish, Folger Shakespeare Library “‘They Seem to be Made Not of Wood But of Copper’: Ulisse Aldrovandi and the Making of Book Illustration” Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
March 2016
Mar 24	Alondra Nelson, PhD, Columbia University “The Social Life of DNA” Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Mar 9	Sixth Annual History of Medicine Night Part I: Intersections of Medicine, Health, and Ethnicity 6pm-7:30pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Mar 10	After Hours: Inside the Rare Book Collection of The New York Academy of Medicine Session 2: East Meets West Presented by Atlas Obscura The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 6:30pm-7:45pm
February 2016
Feb 23	“Where Will the Next Pandemic Come From?” Panel featuring Sonia Shah (journalist), Carl Gierstorfer (journalist/filmmaker), W. Ian Lipkin (Columbia), Peter Daszak (President, EcoHealth Alliance), and Anne Maxmen (journalist) Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Feb 10	“Digital Humanities: Visualizing Data” Workshop Led by Miriam Posner, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles and Heidi Knoblauch, PhD, Bard College Workshop from 1-5pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Feb 9	Miriam Posner, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles The John K. Lattimer Lecture “Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Walter Freeman and the Visual Culture of Lobotomy” Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
January 2016
Jan 30	Ann Blair, PhD, Harvard University “Credit, Thanks and Blame in the Works of Conrad Gessner” Presented in conjunction with Bibliography Week Talk at 11am at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Jan 21	After Hours: Inside the Rare Book Collection of The New York Academy of Medicine Session 1: Anatomical Illustrations Presented by Atlas Obscura The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 6:30pm-7:45pm
November 2015
Nov 19	Paul Freedman, MLS, PhD, Yale University “Seasonal, Local Dining in Pre-Modern Europe” Talk at 6pm at the Academy, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Nov 10	Arlene Shaner, MA, MLS, New York Academy of Medicine “The New York Academy of Medicine and the Printing of the Icones Anatomicae” Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
October 2015
Oct 29	Frederick Douglass Opie, PhD, Babson College “Zora Neale Hurston’s Work on Food-Based Prescriptions for Illnesses: A History” Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Oct 17	Eating Through Time A daylong celebration of history, food, and health At NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street View the full schedule
September 2015
Sept 9	Jean-Laurent Casanova, MD, PhD, Rockefeller University “The Human Genetic Theory of Infectious Diseases: A Brief History” Co-Sponsored by the Heberden Society of Weill Cornell Medical College Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Sept 10	After Hours: Inside the Rare Book Collection of The New York Academy of Medicine Session 5: Cookery Presented by Atlas Obscura The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 6:30pm-7:45pm
Sept 17	B. Harun Küçük, PhD, University of Pennsylvania “Hypochondria in Early Modern Istanbul” The Iago Galdston Lecture Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Sept 30	Andrea Wulf “The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World” Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Presented in collaboration with The Columbia Center for Science and Society.
August 2015
Aug 17	Robin Nagle, anthropologist-in-residence, New York City Department of Sanitation “Life Along the Curb: Inside the Department of Sanitation of New York” Lecture from 6:30-8:00pm 8:00 pm, Screening of the documentary “One Man’s Trash” (17 mins) by Kelly Adams, exploring Nelson Molina’s “Treasures in the Trash” museum developed over 34 years of working for the NYC Department of Sanitation in East Harlem. At the Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street This lecture was part of our “Garbage and the City” series, produced in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and ARCHIVE Global and supported by the New York Council for the Humanities.
Aug 3	Julie Sze, PhD, UC Davis “Noxious New York: Race, Class and Garbage” 6:30-8:00pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street This lecture was part of our “Garbage and the City” series, produced in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and ARCHIVE Global and supported by the New York Council for the Humanities.
July 2015
Jul 1	Catherine McNeur, PhD, Portland State University “Hog Wash, Swill Milk, & the Politics of Waste Recycling in Antebellum Manhattan” $5 cocktails from Art in the Age Spirits at 5:30 Lecture from 6:30-8:00pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street This lecture was part of our “Garbage and the City” series, produced in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York and ARCHIVE Global and supported by the New York Council for the Humanities.
July 30	After Hours: Inside the Rare Book Collection of The New York Academy of Medicine Session 4: Medical Photography Presented by Atlas Obscura The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street 6:30pm-7:45pm
June 2015
June 18	After Hours: Inside the Rare Book Collection of The New York Academy of Medicine Session 3: Natural Histories Presented by Atlas Obscura The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
June 6	Cory Doctorow, “Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free” Sponsored by the New York Library Association (NYLA) 1:00pm-3:00pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
June 7	Tour of Ellis Island’s Hospital Ward A Friends of the Rare Book Room Event Co-presented with ARCHIVE Global 10:20am-1:30pm, meet at Battery Park City
May 2015
May 6	Fifth Annual History of Medicine Night: 19th and 20th Century Stories NYAM Section for the History of Medicine Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
May 7	After Hours: Inside the Rare Book Collection of The New York Academy of Medicine Session 2: Anatomical Illustrations Presented by Atlas Obscura at The New York Academy of Medicine 6:30pm-7:45pm, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
May 4	Natasha McEnroe, director, Florence Nightingale Museum “An American Nurse in Victorian London” Talk at 7pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
April 2015
Apr 28	Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Ph.D., UT Austin “From Plants to Pharmaceuticals: Take Bitter Roots for Malaria” The Lilianna Sauter Lecture Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Apr 14	Nick Wilding, Ph.D., Georgia State University Annual Friends Lecture “On the Circulation of the Book: The Early Reception of Harvey’s De Motu Cordis” Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
March 2015
Mar 31	Vivian Nutton, PhD, University College London “Vesalius Correcting Vesalius” Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Mar 26	After Hours: Inside the Rare Book Collection of The New York Academy of Medicine Session 1: The New York Academy of Medicine and Public Health Presented by Atlas Obscura at The New York Academy of Medicine 6:30pm-7:45pm, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Mar 17	Steven Shapin, PhD, Harvard University The John K. Lattimer Lecture “Beef-eaters: A Cultural History of Food and Identity” Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Mar 11	Fifth Annual History of Medicine Night: Insights from the Early Modern Period NYAM Section for the History of Medicine Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
February 2015
Feb 23	Shocked: Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead Presented by Atlas Obscura at the New York Academy of Medicine Talk at 7pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, Room 21
January 2015
Jan 24	Nick Wilding, PhD, Georgia State University “The History of Material Forgery” Bibliography Week Lecture Talk at 11am at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
December 2014
Dec 4	Hilary Aquino, PhD, Albright College “Making Public Health Contagious: The Life & Career of Leona Baumgartner, MD, PhD” Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
November 2014
Nov 18	“Jonas Salk, The Polio Vaccine, and The Shot Felt ‘Round the World” Film screening and discussion with Peter L. Salk, M.D., Jonas Salk Legacy Foundation; Jeffrey Kluger, Time Magazine; and Bert Hansen, Ph.D., Baruch College, CUNY 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Nov 4	Sonia Shah, The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, and Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders “Mapping Cholera: A Tale of Two Cities” Presentation and discussion of interactive story-maps of two parallel epidemics, the 1832 outbreak of cholera in New York City and the 2010 outbreak of cholera in Haiti. 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
October 2014
Oct 18	Art, Anatomy, and the Body: Vesalius 500 A day-long festival celebrating the intertwined histories of art and anatomy; illustration and medicine; performance and the body; and the 500th birthday of anatomist and humanist Andreas Vesalius. General admission: $35 NYAM Fellows, Members, and Friends of the Rare Book Room: $20 Students and hospital house staff (ID required): Free Wheelchair seating and companion seat: $35 At NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Oct 11	Open House New York 11am-5pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Oct 2	Nancy Tomes, PhD, Stony Brook University “What Ever Became of Good Old Doc? A Portfolio of Physicians Past” Co-presented with the Heberden Society Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
September 2014
Sept 18	Jeremy Greene, MD, PhD, The Johns Hopkins University Authors Night: Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine Talk at 6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
May 2014
May 22	Fourth Annual History of Medicine Night – Part Two Presenters: Danelle Marqui Brown, Marissa B. Nargi, Arthur P. Grollman, MD, Deborah L. Jones, Rebecca O. Johnson 6:00-7:30 at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
May 20	Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD, New York University Langone Medical Center Author’s Night: The Good Doctor: A Father, Son & the Evolution of Medical Ethics 6:00-7:00 at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
May 2	Marijuana & Drug Policy Reform in New York—The LaGuardia Report at 70: Day 2 Sponsored by the Drug Policy Alliance and The New York Academy of Medicine Featuring more than 20 speakers from around the country 10:00am at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street View the full schedule and participant information
May 1	Marijuana & Drug Policy Reform in New York—The LaGuardia Report at 70: Day 1 Sponsored by the Drug Policy Alliance and The New York Academy of Medicine 6:00pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street View the full schedule and participant information
April 2014
Apr 23	Bill Hayes, author of The Anatomist: A True Story of Gray’s Anatomy “Writing the Body” Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture Talk at 6pm, with refreshments at 5:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Apr 10	Graduate Student/Early Career Professionals Roundtable and Reception Including the panel discussion, “Practicing the history of medicine and public Health in New York,” with John Harley Warner, Yale; Janet Golden, Rutgers; Stephen Novak, Columbia; Jean Ashton, New York Historical Society; Barbara Mathe, American Museum of Natural History; and Lilly Tuttle, Museum of the City of New York 6 pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street.
Apr 5	Performing Medicine Festival 11am-6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
March 2014
Mar 25	Heather Varughese John, MD, PhD “Who is Doctor X? Physicians in Training and the Mass-Market Memoir” The Iago Galdston Lecture Talk at 6pm, with refreshments at 5:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Mar 12	Samir Boumediene, PhD “Pharmacopoeia and Colonization: Allegories of the Four Parts of the World and the European Appropriation of Exotic Materia Medica” 4pm at NYAM, Room 310, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
Mar 6	Jacalyn Duffin, MD, PhD, Professor and Hannah Chair, History of Medicine, Queens University “Drug Shortages in the 21st Century: Recent History of a Mystery” Talk at 6pm, with refreshments at 5:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Free and open to the public.
February 2014
Feb 20	Kristin Heitman, PhD, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences “Counting the Dead in Reformation London: 16th-Century Community Health Efforts” Talk at 6pm, with refreshments at 5:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Free and open to the public.
Feb 20	Curator’s Choice: Meet the Presidents A family-friendly look at the ways in which the NYAM collections are connected to American presidential history. 11 am at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street $10 for NYAM Fellows or Friends of the Rare Book Room, $15 for other participants; $10 for children, $25 for families, please no children under 9
Feb 19	Curator’s Choice: Meet the Presidents A look at the ways in which the NYAM collections are connected to American presidential history. 6 pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street $10 for NYAM Fellows or Friends of the Rare Book Room, $15 for other participants
January 2014
Jan 14	Bert Hansen, PhD, Professor of History at Baruch College of CUNY “Louis Pasteur: Exploring His Life in Art.” Talk at 7pm, with refreshments at 6:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street
December 2013
Dec 4	Simon Chaplin, Head of the Wellcome Library, London “Curious Travellers and Strange Souvenirs” Talk at 6pm, with refreshments at 5:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Free and open to the public.
November 2013
Nov 11	Benjamin Breen, 2012-2013 Klemperer Fellow in the History of Medicine “Apothecaries, Slaves, and Drug Merchants in the Atlantic World” Ben Breen’s dissertation research and his work at the New York Academy of Medicine hinges on the interplay between non-European pharmaceutical knowledge and European imperialism. His talk will discuss medical writers from Brazil, Portugal, and the West Indies who wrote about tropical drugs. Many of these writings are largely forgotten today, but they offer a fascinating glimpse into the origins of global drug trade. Talk at 4pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, Room 558
October 2013
Oct 22	David Herzberg, Associate Professor of History at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) “The Other Drug War: Prescription Drug Abuse and Race in 20th Century America” The Lilianna Sauter Lecture Talk at 6pm, with refreshments at 5:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Free and open to the public.
Oct 11-12	Open House New York Saturday, 10am-4pm and Sunday, 12pm-6pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street www.ohny.org
Oct 5	Festival of Medical History & the Arts 11am-7pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue More details here.
September 2013
Sept 26	Stephen G. Friedman, MD, MBA, Weil Cornell Medical College and New York-Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital “Elizabeth Blackwell: First U.S. Woman Physician” Talk at 6pm, with refreshments at 5:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street FREE and open to the public.
May 2013
May 23	Stephen Schmidt “The Best Cake in the World: What Hand-Written Recipe Books Tell Us that Printed Cookbooks Don’t.” The Annual Friends of the Rare Book Room Lecture Talk at 6pm, with refreshments at 5:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street FREE and open to the public
May 21	Dr. Stanley B. Burns, Professor of Medicine and Psychiatry, NYU Langone Medical Center “Pictures After Death: Postmortem Photography and Memorialization in 19th-Century America” The Museum of the City of New York, cosponsored by the New York Academy of Medicine Lecture at 6:30pm, at 1220 Fifth Avenue RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. $6 Museum members; $8 seniors and students; $12 general public. For more information or to register by phone, please call 917-492-3395.
April 2013
Apr 16	David Rosner, PhD, Columbia University and Gerald Markowitz, PhD, John Jay College and CUNY Graduate Center “Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children.” The Lilianna Sauter Lecture Talk at 6pm, with refreshments at 5:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street FREE and open to the public
Apr 8	History Night NYAM Section on the History of Medicine and Public Health 6-8pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street FREE and open to the public.
March 2013
Mar 4	Gregg Mitman, PhD, University of Wisconsin—Madison Ecological Imperialism Revisited: Entanglements of Disease, Commerce and Knowledge in a Global World NYAM event Talk at 6pm, with refreshments at 5:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street FREE and open to the public
February 2013
Feb 7	Sowande’ Mustakeem, Ph.D., of Washington University in St. Louis “Ghosts of the Atlantic: Trauma, Disease, and Murder in the Seafaring World of Slavery” NYAM event Talk at 6pm, with refreshments at 5:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street FREE and open to the public
January 2013
Jan 17	Jessica Martucci, Ph.D., of Mississippi State University “Our Bodies, Our Nature: Breastfeeding and Maternal Ideology in mid-20th Century America” NYAM event Talk at 6pm, with refreshments at 5:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street FREE and open to the public
December 2012
Dec 12	Carla Keirns, MD, Ph.D., Stony Brook University School of Medicine “Putting Asthma on the Map: Weather, Pollen, Pollution and the Geography of Risk” NYAM event Talk at 6pm, with refreshments at 5:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street FREE and open to the public
Dec 10	Cheryl Wills, NY1 News television anchor and author; Harold Holzer, Chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation “Black Civil War Soldiers: Disparities in Wartime Medicine” NYAM event Talk at 6pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street FREE and open to the public
Dec 9	“Semmelweis” NYAM event 4-6pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street FREE but registration required.

NOVEMBER 2012
Nov 29	Michael Willrich, Ph.D., Brandeis University “Pox: An American History” NYAM event 5:30 pm refreshments, talk at 6pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street FREE and open to the public

October 2012
Oct 20	Martin Frost Fore-edge painting workshop New York Guild of Book Workers 10-5pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, The Gladys Brooks Book & Paper Conservation Lab, Room 550 Open to the public; registration required; $120 (GBW members)/$180 (non-members) For more information or to register, please email newyork@guildofbookworkers.org
Oct 19	Martin Frost Fore-edge painting lecture New York Guild of Book Workers 6:30-7:30pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, Room 21 Open to the public; $5 (GBW members)/$10 (non-members) For more information or to register, please email newyork@guildofbookworkers.org
Oct 17	Mark Largent, Ph.D., James Madison College at Michigan State University “Vaccine: The Modern American Debate” NYAM event 5:30 pm refreshments, talk at 6pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street FREE and open to the public
Oct 10	Sabine Hildebrandt M.D., Division of Anatomical Sciences, Department of Medical Education, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan “Anatomy in the Third Reich: current status of research” NYAM Malloch Circle Lecture and Reception Lecture at 6pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street Cost: $50
SEPTEMBER 2012
Sept 27	Curtis W. Hart, M.Div., WCMC Lecturer in Psychiatry, Medicine, Public Health “Franklin Delano Roosevelt: A Famous Patient” NYAM co-sponsored event with the Heberden Society of the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center 5:30 pm refreshments, talk at 6pm, at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street FREE and open to the public
Sept 24	Tour of the Drs. Barry and Bobbi Coller Rare Book Reading Room Atlas Obscura 7-8:30pm at NYAM, 1216 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street SOLD OUT

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