Connecting Worlds — History of Science International Conference

Organização

• Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e Tencologia (CIUHCT)
• University of Porto
• Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences of the University of Porto (FLUP)
• Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar “Cultura, Espaço e Memória” (CITCEM)

Descrição

The History of Science International Conference (HSIC – UP) Connecting Worlds. Production and circulation of knowledge in the First Global Age  will be organized at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (FLUP), from 18-20 May 2016. The conference will develop around a core proposition centered on the production and circulation of knowledge resulting from the encounters between European and local societies in Asia, Africa and the Americas within the premises of European colonialism.

“Connecting worlds: Production and Circulation of Knowledge in the First Global Age” is an opportunity for specialists in diverse fields of research such as History of Science, Colonial Studies and Global History to have a crossover debate of innovative ideas. The meeting will focus on an idea that is progressively expanding parameters of research, according to which modern science and the modern world are understood as global while also being the result of intricate local processes. The exchanges, impositions and negotiation processes underlying the shared production and circulation of knowledge at a global level will be the subject of this conference. We intend to question a Eurocentric perspective on the processes of scientific knowledge building which still dominates both Colonial History and the History of Sciences.

Principais Oradores

• Ana Simões (CIUHCT/UL)
• Cristiana Bastos (Instituto de Ciências Sociais – ICS/UL)
• Florence C. Hsia (Department the History of Science – University of Wisconsin)
• Heloisa Meireles Gesteira (Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins – MAST/RJ)
• Jose Pardo Tomás (CSIC/ Instituicion Mila y Fontanals)
• Júnia Ferreira Furtado (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais – UFMG)
• Kapil Raj (Centre Alexandre-Koyré – EHESS)
• Lorelai Brilhante Kury (Fundação Oswaldo Cruz)
• Onésimo Teotónio Almeida (Brown University – Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies)
• Thomas Augusto Santoro Haddad (Universidade de São Paulo – USP)
• Timothy D. Walker (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)

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