Virtual Conferences and Symposia

Past Programs:

September 21-25: "Relationships, Reciprocity, Responsibilities: Indigenous Studies in Archives and Beyond"

June 8-12: "Evidence: the Use and Misuse of Data"

Virtual Discussions

Recordings of past programs may be viewed on the Society's YouTube channel.

Upcoming Programs:

November 19, 1:00 pm ET

The Indian Law Bombshell: McGirt v. Oklahoma -- A Virtual Discussion with Robert J. Miller

Registration for this event is free. For registration and additional information, please visit the event page.

December 9, 1:00 pm ET

Hannah Turner, "Cataloguing Culture: Histories of Documentation in an Ethnographic Museum"

Registration for this event is free. For registration and additional information, please visit the event page.

Past Programs:

October 23: "Chatsworth House and Its Collections" -- A Conversation between the Duke of Devonshire and Jay Robert Stiefel

October 22: Mary Beth Norton, "1774: The Long Year of Revolution"

October 20: Education Workshop: Intro to Archives

October 15: "Investigating Indentured Servitude: An Open Data and Data Visualization Project"

October 8: Deciphering the Past: Transcription Hour

September 29: Education Workshop: Digital Resources 

September 16: Audra Wolfe, "Science, Freedom, and the Cold War: A Political History of Apolitical Science"

September 10: Lisa Tetrault "When Women Won the Right to Vote: A History Unfinished"

Lunch Lectures

Past Programs:

October 29: David Center for the American Revolution Lunch Lecture featuring Jason Sharples on The World That Fear Made: Slave Revolts and Conspiracy Scares in Early America

October 7: Raina Yancey, "The History of the Black Lawyer in Philadelphia"

Science on Tap

For more information on topics, speakers, and how to register, see the Science on Tap website. The APS will be hosting Science on Tap on Monday, December 14!

Upcoming Programs:

December 14: APS hosting with Dr. Janine Boldt

Past Programs:

April 27: Untapped at Home, Netflix Watch Party: Janine Boldt and Emily Margolis, National Treasure

September 14: Penn Museum hosting

September 28: Untapped at Home, Netflix Watch Party with the Wagner Free Institute

October 12: Mutter Museum hosting

October 26: Untapped at Home, Netflix Watch Party with the Mutter Museum

November 9: Academy of Natural Sciences hosting

More information about Science on Tap, here

Virtual Brown Bags

Virtual Brown Bags are open to APS Staff, Fellows, and area scholars. All Virtual Brown Bags meet at 11:00am EDT on Zoom. To receive the link to attend, contact Adrianna Link, Head of Scholarly Programs, at alink@amphilsoc.org.

Fall 2020

September 8 – Kinsey Brock (University of California, Merced), "Color polymorphism among wall lizards in the Greek Aegean Islands"

September 15 – Long-Term Fellows Flash Talks: Gustave Lester (Harvard University),“Mineral Lands, Mineral Empire: Mapping the Raw Materials of U.S. Industrial Capitalism, 1780-1880"; Andrew Seaton (New York University), "The National Health Service and the Endurances of British Social Democracy"

September 29 – Long-Term Fellows Flash Talks: Candy Martinez (University of California, Santa Cruz) "Working Through Emotional Pains, Structural Inequalities and Healing in Oaxacan communities"; Brooke Bauer (University of South Carolina Lancaster), "Catawba Women and Nation-building, 1540-1840"

October 6 – Christy Pottroff (Merrimack College), "Anne Bradstreet's Door."

October 13 – Claire Webb (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), "Visual Technologies of Perception in the Space Age"

October 20 – Anabelle Rodriguez (Rutgers University), “Curating Xunantunich: Archaeological Exploration, Maya Cultural Heritage, and Ecological Conservation at an Open-Air Museum in Cayo District, Belize"

October 27 – D.O. McCullough (2020-2022 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow), "Science Museums as Stages: Using Educational Programs to Reach Targeted Audiences"

November 10 – Christopher J. Phillips (Carnegie Mellon University), "Number Doctors: How Medicine Became Statistics"

November 17 – Elizabeth Manley (Xavier University), "Building 'A Rich, Unexplored Field': Elsie Clews Parsons and the Reframing of Caribbean Social Science"

December 1 – Ami Yoon (Columbia University), “Practicing Truth: Poetry, Natural History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century America”

December 8 – Paul Wolff Mitchell (University of Pennsylvania), "American Golgothic: Samuel George Morton, Grave-Robbing Abolitionists, and the Afterlives of Cranial Race Science"

December 15 – Kevin Murphy (Stony Brook University), "Oaths, Loyalty, and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century British North America"

Indigenous Studies Seminar 

Inspired by the work of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research (CNAIR), the APS Library & Museum's Indigenous Studies Seminar Series serves scholars and researchers in the Greater Philadelphia area working on projects in or aligned with Native American and Indigenous Studies.

The seminar meets monthly from 3:00-5:00pm EDT via Zoom. Most meetings center around a pre-circulated paper, which will be made available for download two weeks prior to the event. To attend, please contact Adrianna Link, Head of Scholarly Programs, at alink@amphilsoc.org

Fall 2020:

Friday, December 18: Jermani Ojeda Ludeña, University of Texas at Austin, “Using Media to Promote Quechua Culture and Identity in the Peruvian Andes"

Register here to attend.

Past Programs:

November 6: Shandin Pete, Salish Kootenai College, “A Review of Salish Astronomical Knowledge"

At Home Activities

Check out the APS at Home page for crafts and activities. 

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Explore our Pinterest page with activities we love and other activities from our Education department. 

Career Chats

This series brings you real conversations with APS staff on their careers and education and how they came to work at the Society.

A Malignant Tale - Yellow Fever, 1793 Epidemic

This lesson and activity use letters and sensory experience to talk about Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever epidemic.

Letter Writing - Templates for Social Life

Lessons and activities that explore 18th century (and modern) letter writing practices. 

Editing the Declaration

Learn about copies of the Declaration of Independence, from how they were edited and when to what that all means. 

Other Educator Resources

Though you can't visit the Museum or Archives, our collections are still searchable!