CIUHCT Lectures

These conferences are organized by CIUHCT and dedicated to studies in the History of Science and Technology. Speakers are invited to present original works, either concluded or in progress, based on their own research.

This lecture cycle is intended to reunite researchers in different stages of their careers (PhD, postdoctoral, or senior research), promoting debate of topics currently being researched, and allowing for scientific exchange within the History of Sciences, Technology and Medicine and its areas of confluence, as well as constructive interaction between speakers and the audience.

Lectures are opened to the public, with an approximate duration of 40 minutes, followed by 40 minutes of discussion that should be dynamic and enriching. Portuguese will be the language in use, although, when hosting foreign speakers, lectures will be in english. 

In 2020-2021, José Avelãs Nunes and Daniel Gamito Marques were responsible for the cycle of lectures. In 2022, were organized by Bárbara Direito and Clara Florensa. The program of the CIUHCT Lectures 2022 can be found here. In 2023, the cycle was organized by Luís Tirapicos and Monique Palma.

In 2024, the conferences will be organized by Luís Campos Ribeiro and Monique Palma, who are available for proposals, comments, and suggestions.

COLLECTION 2017-2019

The collection CIUHCT Lectures, Cc:17´19, with the ISSN number 2184-1500, rounds up the abstracts from the current cycle. Abstracts are presented individually, with its numbering corresponding to the order in the cycle. The collection is edited by the cycle's coordinators.

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Lectures between 2015 and 2017

The lecture seasons of 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 were organised by Teresa Salomé Mota, succeeding researchers Ana Simões, Pedro Raposo, and Cláudia Castelo.

Lectures before 2015
 

  • Máquinas que fabricam lentes como no século XVII.
    28 de outubro de 2014. Com Jorge Fernando Silva de Araujo, FCUL, sala 8.2.04. Co-organização CIUHCT e Colégio D. Pedro II, Rio de Janeiro.
  • La Gran Historia: de la Nada al Todo.
    20 de outubro de 2014. Com  Dra. Olga García Moreno (Departamento de Geología de la Universidad de Oviedo e Investigadora en el Centro de Investigación en Nanomateriales y Nanotecnología (CINN)). FCUL, sala 8.2.12.
  • O Céu é o Limite: H. G. Wells e a Reinvenção da Arte  da Guerra em The War in the Air(1908).
    19 de junho de 2014. Com António Lopes (Universidade do Algarve/CETAPS). FCUL, sala 8.2.03. Também no âmbito do Ciclo de Conferências Literatura & Ciência II, co-organizado pelo CIUHCT e CETAPS – Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies. 
  • Between academia, museum and the internet: longitude as a public project.
    05 de junho de 2014. Com Rebekah Higgitt, University of Kent. FCUL, sala 8.2.03.
  • A fortuna do naturalista-viajante Alberto Fortis entre observação científica e imagem literária.
    22 de maio de 2014. Com Luana Giurgevich. FCUL, sala 8.2.03. Também no âmbito do Ciclo de Conferências Literatura & Ciência II, co-organizado pelo CIUHCT e CETAPS – Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies. 
  • 'Dentro do tubo de ensaio' : a metáfora como linguagem da realidade.
    10 de fevereiro de 2014. Com Ricardo Marques (CETAPS). FCUL, sala 8.2.03. Também no âmbito do Ciclo de Conferências Literatura & Ciência II, co-organizado pelo CIUHCT e CETAPS – Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies.
  • From Material Culture to Maker Culture – or how can we bring 'things' back to life
    10 de fevereiro de 2014. Com Klaus Staubermann, Principal Curator, Science & Technology, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh. FCUL, sala 8.2.11.
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