CIUHCT

20 September 2023 News

CIUHCT will be present at the Global Festival for the History of Science, which is taking place online throughout the 24 hours of 29 September. Ana Duarte Rodrigues e M. Luísa Sousa will be, respectively, speaker and moderator in two sessions of this festival.  

31 July 2023 News

FCT released today the provisional results of the Call for PhD Research Grants in all Scientific Domains 2023 and Carmo Lacerda, Diego Cavalcanti Araújo e Pier Luigi Pireddu, PhD students at CIUHCT, won FCT PhD Research Grants.  

31 July 2023 News

Beatriz Medori e Šima Krtalić received the annual honour from the Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences (DHFC) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.

22 July to 08 October 2023 Exhibitions

‘HERIT-AGES. Transições Vítreas’ em exposição no Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência.  

22 June 2023 News

Este número inclui um editorial efetuado pela equipa que coordenou a edição da revista durante os últimos três ano “Editorial: Reflections on HoST’s Last Triennium,” de Cristina Luís, Davide Scarso, Luís Tirapicos e Samuel Gessner.

22 June 2023 News

Opening of the exhibition Pelos Labirintos da Medicina Portuguesa nos Séculos XIX e XX (Labyrinths of Portuguese Medicine in the 19th and 20th Centuries), at the Museu da Farmácia, curated by Isabel Amaral and Paula Basso, deputy director of the Museu da Farmácia, which will be open until 30 September.

29 June 2023 Book Launches

Launch of the final book of the project AQUA - The efficient use of water in Modern Gardens, coordinated by Ana Duarte Rodrigues and Patricia Trindade Monteiro, and published by Caleidoscópio.

22 March 2023 News

Fernando Egídio Reis, former Director General of Education, Secretary of State for Education in 2014 and member of the CIUHCT, passed away on march 21st, 2023.

20 March 2023 News

On March 17, 2023, the Permanent External Committee for Scientific Counseling (CEPAC) visited. At the end of the meeting, the first 15 years of the CIUHCT were celebrated with the launch of the CIUHCT Companion.

16 March to 31 May 2023 Exhibitions

This photography exhibition — coordinated by Artur Saraiva, Raquel Mendes, Inês Navalhas and Cristina Luís (and organized within the scope of the European project NEWSERA: Citizen Science as the new paradigm for science communication, funded by the Horizonte 2020 Program). This set of photographs was on display at the Alvalade Shopping Centre, between February 24th and March 15th and will now be on display, from March 16th until the end of May, at the Cantina Velha of the University of Lisbon.  

27 February 2023 Other Events

Com Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology), na NOVA FCT.

22 February 2023 Book Launches

Lançamento do livro "Tratado da Prática de Aritmética" (1519), de Gaspar Nicolas, organizado por Jorge Nuno Silva e Pedro Freitas e publicado pela Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

19 February 2023 Multimedia

22 February 2023 News

HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology is looking for a highly motivated scholar/researcher to serve as its Chief Editor, to lead the next phase of the journal's growth trajectory, and to solidify its role as a trusted source for publications in the field. The deadline for applications is the 17th of March.

28 October 2022 News

Ana Duarte Rodrigues wins Scientific Merit Award in the area of History and Philosophy of Science at Ciências Research Day 2022.

24 October 2022 News

Francisco Malta Romeiras wins ULisboa/CGD Scientific Prize

21 October 2022 News

Patricia Monteiro (AQUA) wins the Best Master 2020/21 award for the Master's course in Sustainable Urbanism and Spatial Planning, FCT and FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.  

07 September 2022 News

Palmira Fontes da Costa, Assistant Professor with Aggregation and member of CIUHCT, has died.

12 September 2022 News

Bárbara Direito is a co-researcher of a British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant approved for funding, entitled "Climate history of nineteenth century of Mozambique".  

12 September 2022 News

Ana Simões ended her term as Vice-President of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) on 10 September 2022, completing six years of having been involved in the management of the ESHS.

29 July 2022 News

CIUHCT wins project in the FCT R&D Projects '22 Call with Maria Elvira Callapez as Principal Investigator. 

29 July 2022 News

CIUHCT is a participating institution in a winning project in the FCT R&D Projects '22 Call, with Paula Urze as a Responsible Co-Investigator. 

02 March 2022 News

The CIUHCT expresses its repudiation of the invasion of Ukraine.

02 March 2022 News

The project H2020 InSciDE - Inventing a shared science diplomacy for Europe, will have, on March 22nd and 23rd, 2022, days open to the public as part of its closing conference, respectively at the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and at the Rectory of NOVA .

31 January to 06 May 2022 Exhibitions

Thomas Horst is the curator of the exhibition Kunstmanns Kostbare Karten (Kunstmann's Precious Charts).

10 March 2022 Meetings

20 December 2021 News

The CIUHCTresearchers Maria Paula Diogo and Paula Urze are WPLeaders of the ERASMUS+ Circular & SOC Learning (CIRC.LE) Hub, a  project that starts in January 2022. 

17 December 2021 News

This special issue includes an introduction by the guest editors Francesca Bray, Gregory Clancey and Annapurna Mamidipudi followed by four articles that address the topic of craft expertise in building and its relation to knowledge, in case studies from China, Japan and France.

24 November 2021 News

In the 400 contracts available under the 4th Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus, CIUHCT has secured one. Although this result does not satisfy us, given the size of our research area in the context of Arts and Humanities and the profile of the awarded contracts, CIUHCT is positioned, once again, as a research unit of reference.

15 January 2022 Calls for Papers

The editors of HoST are looking for proposals for one thematic dossier to be published in December 2023 (HoST volume 17, issue 2).

15 October 2021 News

CIUHCT was present at the 3rd edition of CIÊNCIAS Research Day.

03 November 2021 News

Awarding of Research Scholarships for PhD in the area of social studies on the Anthropocene. The deadline is November 26, 2021.

03 November 2021 News

The 26th edition of the APOM Awards (Portuguese Association of Museology) distinguishes works developed by Ana Duarte Rodrigues and Pedro Freitas.

29 July 2021 News

CIUHCT is the host institution of "Einstein, Eddington and the Eclipse. A global history of the total solar eclipse of 1919", a project with Ana Simões as Principal Investigator.

29 July 2021 News

CIUHCT is the host institution for two exploratory projects, recommended for funding in FCT's Call for Project Grants, "Hi-BicLab" and "HERIT-AGES". The PRs are M. Luísa Sousa and Joana Lia Antunes Ferreira, respectively.

29 July 2021 News

CIUHCT is a participating institution on the project "ROADMAP - Research On Antonio De Holanda Miniatures Artistic Production", a project that includes Henrique Leitão on the team.

07 June 2021 News

The Anthropocene Forum 2021, which runs from 15 to 17 June, will discuss the need for an inclusive EU agenda to address the challenges arising from a rapidly changing planet, promoting critical knowledge, sustainable innovation and a new educational paradigm.

08 June 2021 News

Ana Simões (CIUHCT) and Ana Nunes (BioISI) present the Lessons from Science Teachers project, a digital repository of courses and notes from former of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.  

04 June 2021 News

Ana Duarte Rodrigues presents the AQUA project on Caravana Agroecológica, broadcasted by Rádio Movimento, at the invitation of ce3c - FCUL.

07 May 2021 News

Researchers Ana Simões and Maria Paula Diogo contribute text to the Expert’s Report on European Humanities, the basis of the most recent European Branch of the World Humanities Report.

28 April 2021 News

 Clara Marques, research fellow at the AQUA Project, receives Fulbright Scholarship.

21 May 2021 News

The Advanced Courses of cE3c in partnership with CIUHCT are back, with Cristina Luís as one of those responsible for the courses "Production of Science Communication Activities" and "Strategies for citizen engagement in science communication".

21 April 2021 News

Catarina Madruga's thesis wins the FCiência.ID Award in 2020, in the field of History and Philosophy of Sciences.

30 April 2021 News

Einstein, Eddington e o Eclipse is one of the best comics ever under the rubric "Eurocomics Spotlight" on Ryan C.'s Four Color Apocalypse.

22 April 2021 News

Ivo Louro co-edits a special issue of the Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia journal, with a dossier dedicated to A Sonic Anthropocene – Sound Practices in a Changing Environment.

30 March 2021 News

The scholarships will have a maximum duration of 9 months, and are intended for archival work, bibliography study, hydraulics and fieldwork on a hydraulic system of gardens or fences of the Modern Age in Portugal, with a view to presenting it as a Master's thesis.

16 April 2021 News

Francisco Malta Romeiras wins an honorable mention at the annual Scientific Awards University of Lisbon / Caixa Geral de Depósitos, in the area of History and Philosophy.

26 February 2021 News

Jorge Flores was appointed external fellow and advisor to the Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick, UK. 

03 March 2021 News

A Ciência Viva project, this edition of the book Women in Science 2021 brings together 101 portraits of researchers from different generations and areas of knowledge.

03 March 2021 News

Raquel Cristina, an AQUA project fellow, proves mathematically that contemporary gardens have less efficient water consumption than gardens of the Modern Age.

10 March 2021 News

Helena Avelar de Carvalho, Principal Investigator of the ASTRA project, has died.

31 January 2021 News

Bruno Navarro, president of Fundação Côa Parque and a member of CIUHCT, died at 44 years of sudden illness.

26 January 2021 News

Applications will be accepted until February 8. The scholarship is expected to begin in March 2021.

04 January 2021 News

The new issue is dedicated to "The Fabulous 1930s in the History of Science and Technology", with an introduction by guest editors, Ana Simões and Antonio Sánchez, as well as a paper by Maria Paula Diogo and reviews of the latest books by Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris, David Pretel and Lino Camprubí, and Tatiana Kasperski.

17 December 2020 News

Ana Duarte Rodrigues was a scientific consultant for the temporary exhibition As Hortas de Lisboa at the Lisbon Museum.

02 November 2020 News

The National Museum of Ancient Art and the Monastery of Batalha have two exhibitions, with previously unseen pieces from the artist.

07 October 2020 News

The distinction is awarded since 1962, and has among its laureates foundational names of History of Technology, like Melvin Kranzberg, Joseph Needham, and Lewis Mumford.

24 November 2020 News

The National Mathematical Games Championship is distinguished by the Ciência Viva Awards, awarded annually as recognition for exceptional merit in scientific and technological dissemination in Portugal.

11 December 2020 News

The exhibition Plasticidade - Uma história dos plásticos em Portugal and the Museum of Leiria receive two awards and two honourable mentions from the Portuguese Association of Museology (APOM).

30 December 2020 Calls for Papers

The editors of HoST are looking for proposals for two thematic issues to be published in 2022 (HoST volume 16, issues 1 and 2).

06 October 2020 News

CIUHCT's coordinator joined the technical and scientific advisory team of the new exhibition "Jardins Históricos de Portugal: Memória e Futuro" [Historical Gardens of Portugal: Memory and Future], which can be visited at the National Library of Portugal until March 2021. The exhibition was organised by the Portuguese Association of Historical Gardens and is part of the Lisbon: European Green Capital 2020 programme.

04 September 2020 News

In the General Assembly that took place on September 3, Maria Paula Diogo was also reelected to the ESHS Scientific Council, thus assuring that CIUHCT continues to be represented in this body of the Society.

29 October to 29 October 2020 CIUHCT Lectures

Online, with Ignacio García-Pereda

06 January to 11 January 2020 Meetings

International meeting organised by CIUHCT, its Anthropolands project, and Culturgest, in Lisbon. Part of the Anthropocene Curriculum, started by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in 2016.

07 January 2020 Other Events

Part of the open programme of the Anthropocene Campus Lisboa meeting.

09 January 2020 Other Events

Part of the open programme of the Anthropocene Campus Lisboa meeting.

03 December 2019 News

This project is led by CIUHCT researcher Joaquim Alves Gaspar, with funding from the European Research Council. One of its mains goals is the public release of this tool, which aims to aid the study of historical nautical charts and facilitate access to them for both the scientific community and all members of the public. The database currently includes records of almost 3.500 charts, and at least 50%  of these records include a digital reproduction. The application was developed by project member Ricardo Neiva Vaz, in collaboration with the team.

19 December 2019 Book Launches, Other Events

The exhibitions will be inaugurated at the same time, at the atrium of the C6 building of the Faculty, together with launch of "Impressões de Viagem/Travel Impressions".

03 December 2019 News

In the 300 contracts available under the Individual Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus 2018, CIUHCT has secured one. Although this result does not satisfy us, given the size of our research area in the context of Arts and Humanities and the profile of the awarded contracts, CIUHCT is positioned, once again, as a research unit of reference.

29 November 2019 News

The new issue includes the special issue "Animals, Science and Technology: multispecies histories of scientific and sociotechnical knowledge-practices", coordinated by Richie Nimmo, a work in progress by PhD candidate Hugo Soares, and reviews of the latest books by Audra Wolfe, Álvaro Girón, and Hugh Cagle.

05 December 2019

With David Pantalony (Ingenium: Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation), at FCUL, Room 6.1.36

28 October 2019 News

The distinction was awarded by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).

12 November 2019 News

BGSJ is a scientific journal, in english, published yearly in open access by Sciendo (DeGruyter), with CIUHCT's support.

28 October 2019 Multimedia

29 November 2019 Calls for Papers

The editors of HoST are looking for proposals for two thematic issues to be published in 2021 (HoST volume 15, issues 1 and 2).

04 October to 05 October 2019 Meetings

First day at the FCiênciasID Amphitheatre, FCUL. Free entrance

28 September 2019 News

We are at the National Museum of Natural History and Science with the activity  "AntropoQUÊ" (AnthropoWHAT), a memory game destined to younger audiences, about the importance of seeing nature as a partner, and not just as a resource.

30 August 2019 News

GL&P is an open-access journal published by Sciendo/DeGruyter and supported by CIUHCT.

19 June 2019 News

The new volume includes the special issue "Before the Silent Spring: Pesticides in Twentieth-Century Europe", coordinated by José Rámon Bertomeu-Sánchez, an extended abstract of Thomas J. Misa's Distinguished Lecture, a work in progress by PhD student Inês N. Navalhas, and reviews of the latest books by Tiago Saraiva, Samir Boumediene, and Cathy Gere.

25 June 2019 News

After being graded as 'Exceptional' in 2015, and with a new grading system in place that no longer includes this classification, CIUHCT is again placed within the top R&D units in Portugal. The international evaluation panel also highlighted CIUHCT's leadership position at the European level.

15 October 2019 Calls for Papers

In this interdisciplinary event, taking place in January 2020, in Lisbon, participants will be working in workshop-like seminars hosted by conveners, and may apply to one seminar topic from each overarching framework—Systems of Social and Technological Organization and Perception and Narrative.

05 June 2019 News

This call will be open until July 5, and the fellowships will start in September 2019. 

16 May to 08 September 2019 Exhibitions

Destaque ao encontro improvável entre Einstein e Eddington, celebrando 100 anos do eclipse solar de 1919. No Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência

16 May 2019 News

Applications will be accepted until June 22. The PhD program is expected to begin in September 2019.

07 June 2019 Calls for Papers

The workshop will take place at the Caparica Campus, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, between September 18 and 20, 2019.

29 May to 31 May 2019 Meetings

At the National Coach Museum, in Lisbon.

06 April 2019 to 01 December 2020 Exhibitions

No Museu de Leiria, com organização do projecto de investigação O Triunfo da Baquelite – Contributos para uma história dos plásticos em Portugal

29 April 2019 News

CIUHCT researcher Hugo Silveira Pereira, specialist in railway history (Portugal, 19th Century), has collaborated with research and content production tasks, being responsible for editing the Museum's catalogue.

28 March 2019 News

The project “Making the Earth Global: Early Modern Nautical Rutters and the Construction of a Global Concept of the Earth” (RUTTER) will be funded in two million euros. It is the second ERC grant attributed to a CIUHCT researcher.

27 March to 12 April 2019 Meetings

Soundscape Campus is back for a second edition, taking sound as a hub for reflection and hybridization between History of Science and Technology, Sciences, Ecology and Arts, and operating in the larger global context of inquiries into human agency in nature as raised by the concept of the Anthropocene. At FCT/NOVA.

11 April 2019 CIUHCT Lectures

With Inês Gomes, at FCT/NOVA.

26 February 2019 News

“Mulheres na Ciência” [Women in Science] is a homage by Ciência Viva to portuguese women scientists, now in its third edition (following 2016, 2017).

08 February to 08 May 2019 Exhibitions

No Museu Nacional Ferroviário (Entroncamento), com organização de Hugo Silveira Pereira.

29 January 2019 News

The book Um Império projectado pelo silvo da locomotiva [Eng: An empire projected by the whistle of the locomotive], by Bruno Navarro, has received strong praise in the angolan newspaper Novo Jornal, both for its scientific quality and relevance to angolan history.

13 January 2019 News

Cláudia Castelo's Investigador FCT project has launched a website dedicated to the presentation of its results. We highlight the searchable database, which gathers data from organisms and research personnel directly, or indiretly, involved in field work in the portuguese colonies, between the 1930s and the 1970s.

09 January 2019 News

Researchers Paula Urze and Maria Paula Diogo (CIUHCT coordinator) have been invited to present the keynote speakers in the first day of the meeting. Maria Paula Diogo will also be the opening keynote speaker.

25 September 2018 News

Six new individual research contracts will open, from a total of 12 applications. 

09 January 2019 News

CIUHCT coordinators Maria Paula Diogo and Ana Simões are the authors of the chapter "História da Ciência e História da Tecnologia: Reflexões sobre ética e prática disciplinares" [History of Science and History of Technology: Reflections on ethics and disciplinary practices], in the latest volume of the Ética Aplicada [Applied Ethics] book collection, published by Edições 70 and the Luso-American Foundation for Development (FLAD).

18 December 2018 CIUHCT Lectures

With Francisco Malta Romeiras, at FCUL, C1 Building, Amphitheatre 1.3.34 (changed on Nov. 28)

04 December 2018 Other Events

The Dominance of the Digital (1990–2016), with Thomas Misa, at the Auditorium of the Library of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology/NOVA.

06 June 2018 News

This series of articles is organised by researchers from the Medea Chart project and aims to introduce general audiences to cases in History of Science. Joaquim Alves Gaspar and Ana Margarida Nunes have coordinated the series and reviewed the articles, from a concept by Henrique Leitão.

29 September 2018 News

Horst will be dedicated to the history of cosmography (maps, atlas, globes, instruments and texts), while Tirapicos will be responsible for publications in portuguese language and archaeoastronomy. Their mandates will run until 2020.

18 September 2018 News

CIUHCT researcher and current vice-coordinator Ana Simões, has started her mandate as President of the European Society of History of Science (ESHS) on September 16, after the General Assembly of the Society's 8th Meeting, a position she will hold until the next meeting, in 2020. Her Presidential Address will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Society's journal, Centaurus.

22 September 2023 Other Events

Palestra sobre as transformações ocorridas na Cosmologia e Filosofia por H. Darrel Rutkin (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), a que se seguirá a apresentação e debate da recente publicação de Luís Campos Ribeiro, Jesuit Astrology: Prognostication and Science in Early Modern Culture, com a intervenção de Henrique Leitão.

20 October to 21 October 2023 Meetings