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- STM Knowledge: Made in Portugal, coordinated by Ana Duarte Rodrigues
23 September 2024 News
The “STM Knowledge: Made in Portugal” project, coordinated by Ana Duarte Rodrigues,, makes the research carried out at CIUHCT accessible to a wide audience.
- Hugo Silveira Pereira is the next editor-in-chief of The Journal of Transport History
22 October 2024 News
Hugo Silveira Pereira has been selected as the next editor-in-chief of The Journal of Transport History, starting on January 1, 2025.
- Ignacio García-Pereda won the 2023 Merit Award for Science and Innovation
28 October 2024 News
Ignacio García-Pereda won the 2023 Merit Award for Science and Innovation.
- CIUHCT at CIÊNCIAS Research & Innovation Day 2024
22 October 2024 News
CIUHCT is once again taking part in CIÊNCIAS Research & Innovation Day 2024. The event will take place all day on October 22.
- 3 FCT-Tenure positions (NOVA FCT)
12 September 2024 News
In the first edition of this program, 1100 applications were approved for funding, three of which were approved for NOVA FCT. It will thus be possible to hire 3 assistant professors for the Department of Applied Social Sciences and CIUHCT will now have the chairs of History of Science, History of Technology and Studies in Science and Technology (STS).
- Henrique Leitão appointed to the Board of Directors of the Belém Cultural Center
24 September 2024 News
Minister of Culture, Dalila Rodrigues, appoints Henrique Leitão to the Board of Directors of the Centro Cultural de Belém Foundation, for the three-year period 2024-2026.
- New issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology (18.1, June 2024) now online
01 July 2024 News
The thematic dossier "Empire under the Night Sky: Recording Astral-Cosmography in Qing Dynasty China, 17th – 19th Centuries" includes an introduction by Tristan G. Brown, followed by four articles.
- ULisboa/CGD Scientific Awards: Ana Simões wins prize and Ana Duarte Rodrigues receives honorable mention
20 June 2024 News
Ana Simões wins University of Lisbon / Caixa Geral de Depósitos Scientific Prize and Ana Duarte Rodrigues receives honorable mention.
- Presentation of the project Knowledge in Science, Technology and Medicine: Made in Portugal
19 June 2024 Other Events
On June 19, the presentation of the project “Science, Technology and Medicine Knowledge: Made in Portugal” took place at 6 p.m. at Caleidoscópio at Universidade de Lisboa.
- Calls for 3 Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships (deadline August 30th)
26 August 2024 News
The tenders run until August 30, with work scheduled to begin in October 2024.
- Ana Duarte Rodrigues at Sustainability Week 2024
02 April 2024 News
Ana Duarte Rodrigues participates in the event Várias Reflexões, Uma Sustentabilidade of Sustainability Week, at 11:45 a.m., under the theme "Reflecting in the light of small reflections", on April 18, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, room 6.1.36
- Daniel Gamito-Marques and Francisco Malta Romeiras at the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon Young Scientists Seminar (2024-2026)
05 April 2024 News
Daniel Gamito-Marques and Francisco Malta Romeiras have been invited to participate in what will be the 4th edition of the Young Scientists Seminar (2024-2026), for the Letters Class and the Science Class, respectively.
- Exhibition: Power of the Word V curated by Juan Acevedo and Inês Bénard da Costa runs until September
04 October 2023 to 01 September 2024 Exhibitions
Juan Acevedo e Inês Bénard da Costa are the guest curators of the fifth edition of Power of the Word, a participatory curatorial project organised by the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. The exhibition runs until September 1st.
- CIUHCT at the Global Festival for the History of Science on 29 September
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.
- CIUHCT doctoral students Carmo Lacerda, Diego Cavalcanti Araújo e Pier Luigi Pireddu win FCT Doctoral Research Scholarships
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.
- Samuel Gessner on team behind the successful application for the Eisinga Planetarium (Netherlands) to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site
04 October 2023 News
Samuel Gessner was part of the team of historians and experts who drew up the dossier to nominate the Royal Eise Eisinga Planetarium in Franeker (Holland) as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
- Beatriz Medori and Šima Krtalić received annual honour from FCULs DHFC
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.
- HERIT-AGES. Transições Vítreas on show at MUHNAC until October
22 July to 08 October 2023 Exhibitions
‘HERIT-AGES. Transições Vítreas’ em exposição no Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência.
- New issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology (17.1, June 2023) now online
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.
- Opening of the exhibition Pelos Labirintos da Medicina Portuguesa nos Séculos XIX e XX at Museu da Farmácia
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.
- Launch of the project AQUA book
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.
- Fernando Egídio Reis (1960-2023)
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.
- Visit by the Advisory Board (CEPAC) and celebration of CIUHCTs 15th anniversary, with the launch of the CIUHCT Companion book
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.
- NaturGramPT: Um olhar jovem sobre a biodiversidade em Portugal exhibition at Cantina Velha
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.
- The 6th CIUHCT Distinguished Lecture, with Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology), occurs on February 27
27 February 2023 Other Events
Com Ruth Oldenziel (Eindhoven University of Technology), na NOVA FCT.
- Book launch of Tratado da Prática de Aritmética, organized by Jorge Nuno Silva and Pedro Freitas, on February 22
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.
- Ana Simões participates in a video regarding the International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2023
19 February 2023 Multimedia
- Call for Chief-Editor of our HoST journal
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.
- Ana Duarte Rodrigues wins Scientific Merit Award @ Ciências Research Day 2022
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.
- Francisco Malta Romeiras wins ULisboa/CGD Scientific Prize
24 October 2022 News
Francisco Malta Romeiras wins ULisboa/CGD Scientific Prize
- Patricia Monteiro (AQUA) wins Best Master Award 2020/21 from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
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.
- Palmira Fontes da Costa (1965-2022)
07 September 2022 News
Palmira Fontes da Costa, Assistant Professor with Aggregation and member of CIUHCT, has died.
- Bárbara Direito co-researcher of Small Research Grant awarded by British Academy/Leverhulme
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".
- Ana Simões ends term as vice president of ESHS
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.
- CIUHCT wins project in the FCT R&D Projects22 Call
29 July 2022 News
CIUHCT wins project in the FCT R&D Projects '22 Call with Maria Elvira Callapez as Principal Investigator.
- CIUHCT is an participating institution in a winning project in the FCT R&D Projects22 Call
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.
- CIUHCT stands with Ukraine
02 March 2022 News
The CIUHCT expresses its repudiation of the invasion of Ukraine.
- InsSciDE Lisbon AcademiesDay and Open Conference on March 22 and 23, 2022
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 .
- Exhibition: Kunstmanns Kostbare Karten (Kunstmann Precious Charts)
31 January to 06 May 2022 Exhibitions
Thomas Horst is the curator of the exhibition Kunstmanns Kostbare Karten (Kunstmann's Precious Charts).
- The ART & SCIENCE International Conference takes place on March 10
10 March 2022 Meetings
- CIRC.LE: Approved New European Project with the Participation of CIUHCT Researchers
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.
- The new issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology is now online
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.
- CIUHCT receives a new Scientific Employment contract
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.
- HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology: Call for thematic dossier (2023)
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).
- CIUHCT at CIÊNCIAS Research Day 2021
15 October 2021 News
CIUHCT was present at the 3rd edition of CIÊNCIAS Research Day.
- CIUHCT encourages and welcomes applications for Doctoral Scholarships under the Foz Côa Foundation and FCT.IP protocol
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.
- The 26th edition of the APOM Awards distinguishes the work of CIUHCT researchers
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.
- FCT 2021 Call for Project Grants: CIUHCT wins project
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.
- FCT 2021 Call for Project Grants: CIUHCT wins two exploratory projects
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.
- FCT 2021 Call for Project Grants: CIUHCT is a participating institution on a winning project
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.
- Anthropocene Forum 2021 kicks off June 15
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.
- Lessons from Science Teachers Available Online
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.
- AQUA participates in CE3cs Agroecological Caravan at Rádio Movimento
04 June 2021 News
Ana Duarte Rodrigues presents the AQUA project on Caravana Agroecológica, broadcasted by Rádio Movimento, at the invitation of ce3c - FCUL.
- CIUHCT researchers participate in Expert´s Report on European Humanities
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.
- AQUA Project researcher Clara Marques receives Fulbright Scholarship
28 April 2021 News
Clara Marques, research fellow at the AQUA Project, receives Fulbright Scholarship.
- Return of cE3c Advanced Courses in partnership with CIUHCT
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".
- Catarina Madruga wins FCiências.ID 2020 award
21 April 2021 News
Catarina Madruga's thesis wins the FCiência.ID Award in 2020, in the field of History and Philosophy of Sciences.
- Einstein, Eddington e o Eclipse on the best-of list of all time on reputed comics website
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.
- Ivo Louro co-edits a special issue of Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia
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.
- AQUA opens call for two Masters Research Grants
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.
- Francisco Malta Romeiras wins Honorable Mention at the ULisboa / CGD Scientific Awards
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.
- Jorge Flores appointed external fellow of the Global History and Culture Center
26 February 2021 News
Jorge Flores was appointed external fellow and advisor to the Global History and Culture Centre, University of Warwick, UK.
- Maria Paula Diogo is one of the researchers portrayed in the new edition of the book Women in Science
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.
- Raquel Cristina (AQUA) proves that contemporary gardens consume more water than those of the Modern Age
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.
- Helena Avelar de Carvalho (1964-2021)
10 March 2021 News
Helena Avelar de Carvalho, Principal Investigator of the ASTRA project, has died.
- Bruno Navarro (1977-2021)
31 January 2021 News
Bruno Navarro, president of Fundação Côa Parque and a member of CIUHCT, died at 44 years of sudden illness.
- Call for a Postdoctoral Research Scholarship
26 January 2021 News
Applications will be accepted until February 8. The scholarship is expected to begin in March 2021.
- New issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology (14.2, Dezembro de 2020) online
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.
- As Hortas de Lisboa at the Lisbon Museum with the participation of Ana Duarte Rodrigues
17 December 2020 News
Ana Duarte Rodrigues was a scientific consultant for the temporary exhibition As Hortas de Lisboa at the Lisbon Museum.
- Pieces by Almada Negreiros will be shown for the first time: two exhibitions with Pedro Freitas as the scientific commissioner
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.
- Maria Paula Diogo awarded the Leonardo da Vinci medal - the highest honor attributed by the Society for the History of Technology
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.
- Jorge Nuno Silva´s initiative wins Ciência Viva 2020 Award
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.
- APOM awards prizes and honourable mentions to the exhibition Plasticidade and Museu de Leiria
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).
- HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology: Call for thematic issue (2022)
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).
- Ana Duarte Rodrigues collaborates with a new exhibition at the National Library of Portugal dedicated to portuguese Historical Gardens
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.
- Ana Simões becomes Vice-President of the European Society for the History of Science
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.
- Return of the CIUHCT Lectures, with Ignacio García-Pereda
29 October to 29 October 2020 CIUHCT Lectures
Online, with Ignacio García-Pereda
- Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax
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.
- Keynote Anthropocene Campus with Scott Knowles: Governance of Risk in a Heating Planet
07 January 2020 Other Events
Part of the open programme of the Anthropocene Campus Lisboa meeting.
- Keynote Anthropocene Campus with Dipesh Chakrabarty: The Climate of History - 10 Years Later
09 January 2020 Other Events
Part of the open programme of the Anthropocene Campus Lisboa meeting.
- MEDEA-CHART project launches new database of nautical historical cartography
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.
- New E3 book presented with two CIUHCT exhibitions, at the Faculty of Sciences (Lisbon)
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".
- CIUHCT receives a new Scientific Employment contract
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.
- New issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology (13.2, December 2019) online
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.
- 3rd CIUHCT Distinguished Lecture
05 December 2019
With David Pantalony (Ingenium: Canada's Museums of Science and Innovation), at FCUL, Room 6.1.36
- Plasticity exhibition receives the prestigious Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits
28 October 2019 News
The distinction was awarded by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT).
- New issue of the Board Game Studies Journal (13.1)
12 November 2019 News
BGSJ is a scientific journal, in english, published yearly in open access by Sciendo (DeGruyter), with CIUHCT's support.
- Gresham Lecture: A Global History of the Eclipse of 29 May 1919
28 October 2019 Multimedia
- HoST - Journal of History of Science and Technology: Call for thematic issue (2021)
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).
- ESHS in-between meeting. Rethinking the history of the sciences in Europe
04 October to 05 October 2019 Meetings
First day at the FCiênciasID Amphitheatre, FCUL. Free entrance
- CIUHCT at the European Researchers Night 2019
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.
- New issue of Gardens and Landscapes of Portugal (vol.5): Ars therapeutica, hortus sanitatem
30 August 2019 News
GL&P is an open-access journal published by Sciendo/DeGruyter and supported by CIUHCT.
- New issue of HoST — Journal of History of Science and Technology (13.1, June 2019) online
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.
- CIUHCT scored as Excellent (top score) in the latest FCT Evaluation of R&D Units
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.
- Anthropocene Campus Lisboa: Parallax
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.
- Two research fellowships for PhDs in ERC Project RUTTER
05 June 2019 News
This call will be open until July 5, and the fellowships will start in September 2019.
- E3 – Einstein, Eddington and the Eclipse
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
- Two PhD fellowships in History of Science (FCUL) associated with ERC Project RUTTER
16 May 2019 News
Applications will be accepted until June 22. The PhD program is expected to begin in September 2019.
- Resources, Infrastructures and the Anthropocene: Dialogues between the Global-North and the Global-South
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.
- Plastics Heritage Congress 2019
29 May to 31 May 2019 Meetings
At the National Coach Museum, in Lisbon.
- Plasticity — A History of Plastics in Portugal
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
- New Railway Museum in Bragança, with CIUHCT participation
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.
- Henrique Leitão is awarded an ERC Advanced Grant
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.
- Listening to the Dynamics of Scientific Practice and Technological Development @ Soundscape Campus Colloquium 2019
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.
- When science (did not) kill the locusts: The Locust Extinction Services between 1899 and 1980
11 April 2019 CIUHCT Lectures
With Inês Gomes, at FCT/NOVA.
- Ana Viseu in the 2019 edition of Mulheres na Ciência
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).
- Building Anthropogenic Landscapes in 19th and 20th Century Africa: Railways in Photography
08 February to 08 May 2019 Exhibitions
No Museu Nacional Ferroviário (Entroncamento), com organização de Hugo Silveira Pereira.
- Book by Bruno Navarro praised in Angolan newspaper
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.
- Launch of the website Field Scientists in the Portuguese Empire (FiSciPe)
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.
- CIUHCT at the 8th International Congress of Technology, Science and Society
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.
- CIUHCT applications with high approval rate in Scientific Employment Stimulus 2018
25 September 2018 News
Six new individual research contracts will open, from a total of 12 applications.
- CIUHCT researchers in Applied Ethics collection
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).
- The Expurgation of Science and the Science of Expurgating
18 December 2018 CIUHCT Lectures
With Francisco Malta Romeiras, at FCUL, C1 Building, Amphitheatre 1.3.34 (changed on Nov. 28)
- 2nd CIUHCT Distinguished Lecture
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.
- Histórias da Ciência series, every monday, in Público
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.
- Thomas Horst and Luís Tirapicos, special editors of the Isis Current Bibliography of the History of Science
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.
- Ana Simões, CIUHCT co-coordinator, President of the European Society for the History of Science
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.
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