Several activities, including exhibitions, symposia, and public lectures, are organized by CIUHCT for the general public. CIUHCT also offers a list of lectures for students and lay persons on topics of the history of science and technology related to its research activities. These lectures may be requested by secondary schools or any cultural or social institutions. 

• Under our Feet: Lisbon Historic Pavements

  April 19 to September 24 2017. Supported by CIUHCT.
  At Torreão Poente (Museu de Lisboa)
  
  
  

• 13th National Championship of Mathematical Games

  The 13th edition of the National Championship of Mathematical Games took place last friday, March 24, at the Pavilhão Multiusos of Guimarães. The organization of this event has been coordinated for several years by Jorge Nuno Silva, president of the Ludus association and CIUHCT researcher, specialized in the history of this kind of games. The competition has provided over 100.000 students the opportunity to develop cognitive skills and interest in Mathematics. In 2017 the championship received over 1700 students from 360 schools from all over Portugal.
  
  

• The Carta Marina at 500

  
  
  CIUHCT researcher Joaquim Alves Gaspar has attended The Carta Marina at 500, a two-day conference celebrating the 500th anniversary of Martin Waldseemüller's Carta Marina and focusing on some of the most mysterious maps of the Medieval and Early Modern periods. His presentation, titled "Maps and Cartographical Charts in the Medieval and Modern Ages: Two of a Kind or Different Kind of Paradigms", can be watched above. We also recommend the final part (starting at 1h25), a debate with participants:
  
  
  (Fonte dos vídeos: Library of Congress, Youtube)

• Osterbrock Book Prize para a Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers

• Encontros com o Património (TSF): A reutilização das linhas de caminhos de ferro

• Honorable Mention in the Victor Sá Award for Contemporary History 2015 to Researcher Francisco Malta Romeiras

• Award for Scientific and Technical Translation to Portuguese — 2015

• Game of the Goose: How to survive over 600 years of history?

  Professor Jorge Nuno Silva has been interviewed for the radio programme 90 Segundos de Ciência, broadcast daily by Antena 1, from monday to friday. The CIUHCT researcher discusses the 500-year persistence of the Game of the Goose, a board game whose ludic properties he studies, together with João Pedro Neto (FCUL). This 90 second recording is in portuguese.
  
  

• Constructions of Knowledge - The University Seen from the Skies

  This video was produced for the launch of the book Universidade de Lisboa. Museus, Coleções e Património [University of Lisbon. Museums, Collections and Heritage], on December 13, 2016, using drones to present the buildings and the gardens of the university.

• CIUHCT researchers at Noite Europeia dos Investigadores

  

• Maps for the whole Earth: Oceanic voyages and the birth of modern cartography

  Talk given at the Adler Planetarium on the 13th September 2016 by CIUHCT's researchers, Joaquim Alves Gaspar e Henrique Leitão, and presented by Friends of the Webster Institute and the Chicago Map Society,
  
  

• The Anthropocene: A Challenge to the History of Science, Technology, and Sustainability

  Kranzberg Lecture by Helmuth Trischler, director of the Rachel Carson Center, given on the 26th July 2016, at the Rectory of the  University of Porto. This talk was given on the occasion of ICOHTEC 2016, organised by CIUHCT.
  
  

• Tertúlia sobre "Oxigénio", de Carl Djerassi e Roald Hoffmann

  November 22, 2015, 17h. Speaker: Ana Carneiro
  Teatro-Estúdio António Assunção, Almada
  

• Novas «artérias» para a circulação: estradas e a sua transformação com a mobilidade automóvel

  November 12-14, 2015. Speaker: Maria Luísa Sousa
  Auditório da Casa Municipal da Cultura, Seia
  

• Mostra: Horticultura para todos (Horticulture for everyone)

  From 25 May 2016 to 2 September 2016. Comissioned by: Ana Duarte Rodrigues
  At the Sala de Referência, National Library of Portugal
  
  

  
  

• Antropoceno e problemas globais

  12th december 2016 to 09 january 2017. Exhibition produced within the scope of the International Year of Global Understanding. Curator: Maria Paula Diogo
  Sala Ágora, Library of the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da NOVA de Lisboa
  
  

• A cidade como espaço de utopia, desenvolvimento e sustentabilidade

  14 to 22 de novembre 2016. Exhibition produced within the scope of the International Year of Global Understanding. Curator: Maria Paula Diogo
  Sala Ágora, Library of the Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - NOVA de Lisboa
  
  

• La Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal: un viaje por el conocimiento

  From January 21 to June 26, 2016. Comissioned by: Alexandra Curvelo, Antonio Sánchez e Joaquim Gaspar. Digital exhibit, at Casa del Lector, in Madrid.

• The Art and Science of Designing an Observatory in the Nineteenth Century

  A talk by Pedro Raposo, marking the beginning of his stay at the Adler Planetarium, where he went to serve as curator. It addresses the inception and early history of the Pulkovo Observatory, as well as its relations with other observatory undertakings, both in Europe and in the United States, showing how the quest for the ideal observatory, driven by scientific ambitions and a growing technical acumen, also meshed with issues of power, prestige and cultural credibility.

• Pádua Ramos Interior Design Prize for the exhibition "360º - Science Discovered"

  The exhibition “360º - Science Discovered" has won one more prize.  Pádua Ramos Interior Design Prize was given to Mariano Piçarra, who led who led the team in charge of the exhibition's design. 
  

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