Jaume Sastre-Juan

Post-doctoral Fellow
Department of History and Philosophy of Sciences, FCUL

Research Interests

  • History and politics of technological display (twentieth century, United States and Southern Europe);
  • History and politics of science popularization (twentieth century, United States, Europe, international organizations);
  • Technology and fun: history and politics of amusement parks & history and politics of 'interactivity' in museums of science and technology (twentieth century, United States and Southern Europe).

Current Projects

  • “Museums, Technology and Power: The Politics of Technological Display in Southern Europe (1929-1986)”, post-doc research project, CIUHCT, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, 2015-2018.

Participation as a member in other projects (current)

  • 'Visions of Lisbon: Science, Technology and Medicine and the Making of a Techno-Scientific Capital, 1870-1940'. Funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [VISLIS PTDC/IVC-HFC/3122/2014]. Main researcher: Ana Simões. 2016-2019
  • 'Del gabinete de maravillas al museo anatómico popular: regímenes de exhibición y cultura material de la medicina'. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity [HAR2015-64313-P]. Main researcher: José Pardo-Tomás. 2017-2019

Participation as a member in other projects (finished)

  • “Science in a Global World: Natural History, Anthropology and Biology in the Interplay of Scientific Voyages and the City”. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy [HAR2013-48065-C2-1-P]. Main researchers: Álvaro Girón and Oliver Hochadel (IMF-CSIC). 2014-2016.
  • 'Science and Expertise in the Public Sphere: Barcelona (1888-1992)'. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation [HAR2009-12918-C03-02]. Main researcher: Agustí Nieto-Galan. 2010-2012
  • 'The Popularization of Science, Technology and Medicine in Industrial Barcelona (1815-1929)'. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education [HUM2006-07206-C03-01/HIST]. Main researcher: Agustí Nieto-Galan. 2008-2010

 Publications (Selection)

  1. Sastre-Juan, Jaume (2018), ‘“Science in Action”: The Politics of Hands-on Display at the New York Museum of Science and Industry’, History of Science [http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0073275317725239?journalCode=hosa; within the special issue ‘The Spatial Inscription of Science: Politics and Practices since 1900’, edited by Andrée Bergeron and Charlotte Bigg].

  2. Sastre-Juan, Jaume (in press), 'Philanthropy, Mass Media and Cultural Hegemony: the Rockefeller Foundation and the Politics of Science Popularization in the 1930s', in Badino, Massimiliano; Omodeo, Pietro Daniel (eds.), Gramsci Today: Cultural Hegemony in a Scientific World, Leiden, Brill.

  3. Sastre-Juan, Jaume (2016), ‘Pilgrimages to the Museums of the New Age: Appropriating European Industrial Museums in New York City (1927-1937)’, Science Museum Group Journal, Issue 6 [http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk/browse/issue-06/pilgrimages-to-the-museums-of-the-new-age/]
  4. Sastre-Juan, Jaume; Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume (2016), “Technological Fun: The Politics and Geographies of Amusement Parks”, in Hochadel, Oliver; Nieto-Galan, Agustí (eds.), Barcelona (1888-1929): An Urban History of Science and Modernity, London/New York, Routledge, 92-112.
  5. Sastre-Juan, Jaume, “Interpreting Science for a General Public: the Rockefeller Foundation and the Politics of Science Popularization in the 1930s”, Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) Research Reports Online (2014). [www.rockarch.org/publications/resrep/sastre-juan.pdf].
  6. Sastre-Juan, Jaume, Un laboratori de divulgació tecnològica: el New York Museum of Science and Industry i la política de la museïtzació de la tecnologia als Estats Units (1912-1951), PhD Dissertation, (Barcelona: Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, 2013) [Title in English: A Laboratory for Technological Popularization: the New York Museum of Science and Industry and the Politics of Display in the United States (1912-1951)]. [http://hdl.handle.net/10803/129394]
  7. García-Reyes, Juan Carlos; Sastre-Juan, Jaume; Valentines-Álvarez Jaume, “Ciencia y crisis: auge de la tecnocracia y empoderamiento de sus resistencias (1914-2011)”, Ecléctica, 1 (2012), 52-63. [Title in English: “Science and Crisis: The Rise of Technocracy and the Empowerment of its Resistances (1914-2011)”]. [http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=3904072]
  8. Sastre-Juan, Jaume; Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume, “Interview with Professor David Edgerton”, Quaderns d’Història de l’Enginyeria, vol. 12 (2011), 259-266.  [http://hdl.handle.net/2099/11724].

Scientific Societies and other institutions 

  • Book review editor of the Journal of History of Science and Technology (HoST): https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/host
  • Member of the research network Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP).
  • Member of the Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology (SCHCT). 

Organization of scientific seminars

  • (with Tatiana Kasperski and Jaume Valentines-Álvarez) International Workshop 'Nuclear Fun: Banalising the Atom in Public Display', Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, June 21, 2016.
  • (with Josep Simon) 'Communicating Science: Pleasures and Pitfalls of Historical Narrative', within the Colloquia of the Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology, 2010-2011 (http://blogs.iec.cat/schct/col%C2%B7loquis-de-la-schct-2010-2011/).
  • (with Néstor Herran -main organizer- et al.) '5th European Spring School of History of Science and Popularization: Radioactivity in the Public Sphere', Maó, Minorca, May 21-23 2009.

Conference papers and invited talks (selection)

  • (with Andrée Bergeron) “The International Politics of Science Popularization at the League of Nations in the late 1930s”, 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology, Rio de Janeiro, July 23-29, 2017.
  • “The Innocence of Pushing a Button: Towards a Political Genealogy of Interactivity”, invited conference to the research seminar ‘Enjeux politiques et culturels des mises en scène des sciences’, Centre Alexandre Koyré, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, April 27, 2017.
  • “Filming the ‘Museums of the New Age’: The Appropriation of European Industrial Museums in New York City (1927)”, invited conference at the Artefacts Meeting, Science Museum, London, October 2-4, 2016.
  • “El mite de la màquina: tecnologia, museus i ideologia”, inaugural keynote lecture, 13th Meeting of the Catalan Society for the History of Science and Technology (SCHCT), Sant Feliu de Guíxols, September 26-28, 2014 [Title in English: “The Myth of the Machine: Technology, Museums and Ideology”].
  • (with Jaume Valentines-Álvarez) “Technological Seduction: the Politics of Amusement Parks in Barcelona (1888-1929)”, 9th Science and Technology in the European Periphery (STEP) Meeting, Lisbon, September 1-3, 2014.
  • (with Reviel Netz) “Space, History and Materialism for the 21st Century”, presentation of the Spanish translation of Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity, Faculty of Philosophy of the Universitat de Barcelona, October 7, 2013.
  • “Visualizing Men and Machines at the New York Museum of Science and Industry (1927-1950)”, Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Cleveland, November 3-6, 2011.
  • “Science in Action: the New York Museum of Science and Industry and the Politics of Interactivity”, Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society (HSS), Montréal, November 4-7, 2010.
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