News
- CIUHCT partner of the 2021 Velo City conference (Lisbon)
17 December 2018
CIUHCT will be part of this event through the upcoming book “Cycling Cities: The Lisbon Experience”, a project on the history of cycling mobility in the portuguese capital, which includes our researchers João Machado and M. Luísa Sousa.
- Helena Avelar de Carvalho obtains her PhD from the Warburg Institute
29 November 2018
On November 26, CIUHCT researcher Helena Avelar de Carvalho successfully presented her PhD thesis at the Warburg Institute (London, UK), a new contribution to an international history of astrology.
22 November 2018
The PhD dissertation "A Arquitectura dos Sanatórios em Portugal: 1850-1970” [The Architecture of Sanatoria in Portugal: 1850-1970] merited the distinction.
- New issue of the Board Game Studies journal online
02 November 2018
BGS is a single peer-reviewed journal for historical and systematic research on board games. Its object is to provide a forum for board games research from all academic disciplines in order to further our understanding of the development and distribution of board games within an interdisciplinary academic context. Its managing editor is Jorge Nuno Silva.
29 October 2018
A HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology é uma revista de acesso aberto com arbitragem científica, disponível em linha, publicada em inglês pela De Gruyter, em resultado de uma parceria de quatro unidades de investigação portuguesas (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, e Instituto de História Contemporânea). Clique na entrada para ler a tabela de conteúdos do volume 12/1.
- CIUHCT co-organises the 3rd Luso-Brasilian Meeting on the History of Tropical Medicine
26 October 2018
Isabel Amaral organises, together with Jaime Benchimol (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz) and Maria Deane (Fiocruz), the 3rd Luso-Brasilian Meeting on the History of Tropical Medicine, which will take place in Manaus, Brasil.
- AQUA research project opens position for PhD fellow
23 October 2018
Applications may be submitted from October 24 to November 14. Candidates are required to have scientific and/or professional experience in working with documentation of the 15th to the 18th centuries, knowledge on Early Modern History, and a PhD degree granted in the past year, at the latest.
08 October 2018
The researcher will be in Portugal until July 2019, working on the project "Corpos enfermos e ano?malos na A?frica colonial - Uma invenc?a?o da alteridade Africana” [Sick and anomalous bodies in colonial Africa - an invention of African alterity]
29 September 2018
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.
- CIUHCT applications with high approval rate in Scientific Employment Stimulus 2018
25 September 2018
Six new individual research contracts will open, from a total of 12 applications.