ESHS in-between meeting. Rethinking the history of the sciences in Europe

Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa; Museu da Cidade

04 outubro até 05 outubro 2019

SOBRE ESTE ENCONTRO

A European Society for the History of Science, actualmente presidida por Ana Simões, co-coordenadora do CIUHCT, organiza encontros intercalares que alternam com os seus congressos. O encontro deste ano, Rethinking the history of the sciences in Europe: historiographical approaches and future prospects, será em Lisboa. O primeiro dia, 4 de Outubro, terá sessões abertas ao público, sem necessidade de inscrição prévia, que irão decorrer no Anfiteatro da FCiênciasID, no edifício C1, Piso 3, da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa.

PROGRAMA (4 DE OUTUBRO)

9:00. Welcome

9:30. Agustí Nieto-Galan (CEHIC, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona), How to write a ‘European’ History of Science? Some Critical Reflections

10:15. Maria Paula Diogo (CIUHCT, NOVA University of Lisbon), Europe goes global: narratives from the History of Technology perspective

11:00. Coffee Break

11:30. Frank James (Royal Institution), Davy’s career in European perspective

12:15. Simone Turchetti (CHSTM, University of Manchester), Science diplomacy as a concept and its significance for historians of science

13:00. Lunch

14:30. Roberto Lalli (MPIWG, Berlin), Socio-epistemic networks and the history of science in Europe

15:15. Mitchell Ash (University of Vienna), Science and politics as resources for one another: rethinking a relational history

16:00. Karine Chemla (CNRS, SPHERE), Remarks on the shaping of European historiographies of mathematics in the 19th and the 20thcenturies and their present-day impact

16:45. Coffee Break

17:00. Final comments by Clara Florensa (CEHIC) and Davide Scarso (CIUHC) and general discussion

18:30 (Recommended closing time)

Seminário interdisciplinar, co-organizado com o THD — Teoria e História do Direito, Centro de Investigação da ULisboa, com o objectivo de discutir a evolução das políticas de proteção do ambiente.

O Ambiente e a História - Uma reflexão multidisciplinar sobre o tema

Seminário interdisciplinar que tem como objectivo discutir, a partir do contributo de diferentes disciplinas, a evolução das políticas de proteção do ambiente em face aos problemas ambientais que surgiram com a evolução da sociedade, dentre eles a atual questão das alterações climáticas.

Programa

Painel I

Moderadora – Augusta Mattos (IHC — NOVA FCSH)

09:20 – O ambiente e a sua “proteção” no Direito português antigo: uma análise histórica e crítica — Margarida Seixas (THD – FDUL)

09:40 – A exploração da mata atlântica e rios na colônia brasileira. Cartas do sec. XVI e XVII — Sandro Alex Simões (THD)

10:00 – Pré-história do direito do ambiente português na época contemporânea — Miriam Afonso Brigas (THD – FDUL)

Painel II

Moderadora – Paula Borges Santos (IHC – NOVA FCSH)

10:40 – Soluções ambientais uma realidade já na Idade Moderna? Floresta renovável nos seculos XVIII e XIX em Portugal — Cristina Joanaz de Melo (IHC — NOVA FCSH)

11:00 – O plástico, a nova praga ambiental — Carla Amado Gomes (FDUL)

Intervalo para o Almoço

Painel III

Moderadora – Maria de Fátima Nunes (IHC – Universidade de Évora)

14:00 – A globalização e o Impacto sobre o Ambiente — Filipe Duarte Santos (FCUL)

14:20 – O ato administrativo global na proteção do ambiente — Vasco Pereira da Silva (FDUL)

14:40 – Alterações Climáticas: entre a Crise e o Colapso — Viriato Soromenho-Marques (FLUL)

Comissão Científica:

Paula Borges Santos (IHC – NOVA FCSH)

Maria de Fátima Nunes (IHC – Universidade de Évora)

Cristina Joanaz de Melo (IHC – NOVA FCSH)

Pedro Caridade de Freitas (THD – Universidade de Lisboa)

Eduardo Vera Cruz (THD – Universidade de Lisboa)

Call for Papers EAUH Antwerp 2020: Urban Space and Inequality - Middle Ages to 20th Century (M-SOC-1)

For the next European Association for Urban History (EAUH) Conference in Antwerp, 2-5 September 2020, we invite paper proposals for a Main Session (M-SOC-1): ‘Urban Space and Inequality, Middle Ages to 20^th-Century’ (organizers: Tim Soens, University of Antwerp and Richard Rodger, University of Edinburgh)

The goal of the session is to question how inequality affected the social topography of cities. The session aims to explore recent insights in urban research that show an increase in inequalities from the Black Death to the dawn of the 20thC. Stimulated also by new generations of Historical GIS, we invite contributions on residential segregation and social topography to examine long run patterns of urban inequality.

Inequality is on the rise and this is increasingly seen as problematic. Its reduction features prominently on the list of Sustainable Development Goals advanced by the United Nations. Since Piketty’s Capital (2013) renewed attention has been paid to the long-term development of wealth – and to a lesser extent income – inequalities, with most historians and economists (Alfani, Scheidel, Milanović) observing an almost continuous rise in inequality, which apparently could only be curbed by catastrophic societal disruptions – think of both World Wars – and the significant redistributions of wealth that followed in their wake.

For (European) cities as well a significant increase in economic inequalities from the 15th century has been observed. Crucially, however, we lack insights into the mechanisms explaining increasing inequality and the geographic variations in inequality both between and within towns and cities.

In this EAUH session we seek to advance space as a promising way to explore evolutions in urban inequality. For an increasing number of towns and cities Historical GIS infrastructures have been developed which facilitate the mapping of wealth and income inequalities. Research on the social topography of cities often assumed that pre-1800 cities were mostly characterised by so-called ‘meso-segregation’, separating elite housing along main roads from the urban poor in back alleys ‘around the corner.’ In contrast, 19th and 20th century cities witnessed an increasing ‘macro-segregation’ between neighbourhoods with a clearly distinguished social profile. If this is so, the relationship between the history of inequality and the social topography of the city is subject to considerable interpretive change over time.

This session aims to confront recent advances in the study of urban inequality with studies of urban space and social topography. We welcome papers dealing with:

·       the spatial imprint of urban inequality

·       the use of Historical GIS to analyse inequality

·       the social fragmentation of neighbourhoods

·       the interaction between residential segregation and changes in welfare levels e.g. via the housing market

·       the impact of shocks (warfare, epidemics) on the social topography of cities

·       the relationship between individual social mobility and housing

·       the impact of policy decisions (clearances, infrastructural investment)

Submission of paper proposals before October 4 via: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/eauh2020/papers/call-for-papers/

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More information on the conference: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/eauh2020/

Flows and Floods: Changing Environments and Cultures

An Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Warwick

Saturday 22nd February 2020

Keynote Address: Profs. Dominic Boyer and Cymene Howe (Rice University)

Funded by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC)

Call for Papers Deadline: Nov 1st, 2019

For more information see https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/ff/

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/Sciendo, em resultado de uma parceria de quatro unidades de investigação portuguesas (CIUHCT, CIDEHUS, Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Instituto de História Contemporânea).

CONTEÚDOS DO NÚMERO 13.1

Número temático "Before the Silent Spring: Pesticides in Twentieth-Century Europe", com introdução pelo editor convidado José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez, que apresenta uma revisão crítica bibliográfica que enquadra as novas perspectivas trazidas pelos quatro(*) artigos de investigação primária que o compõem, nomeadamente ao abordarem cronologias (primeira metade do século XX), pesticidas (antes do DDT) e geografias (Espanha e Noruega) que normalmente não aparecem nas narrativas dominantes:

"Introduction. Pesticides: Past and Present", José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez

"Influencing for results: Bees, Beekeepers and Norwegian Pesticide Legislation", Anne Jorunn Frøyen

"Following Hydrogen Cyanide in the Valencian Country (1907-1933): Risk, Accidents and Standards in Fumigation", Ximo Guillem-Llobat

"Arsenical Pesticides in Early Francoist Spain: Fascism, Autarky, Agricultural Engineers and the Invisibility of Toxic Risks", José Ramón Bertomeu-Sánchez (*) o quarto artigo deste número temático, de May-Brith Ohman Nielsen, será publicado, por motivos de força maior, apenas no próximo número da HoST: HoST 13.2 (Dezembro de 2019)

Um resumo alargado da Distinguished Lecture (CIUHCT) de Thomas J. Misa sobre a nova "era" tecno-cultural digital, criticando, à luz da história da tecnologia, o determinismo tecnológico presente em algumas narrativas sobre a lei de Moore, "Dominance of the Digital (1990–2016)"

Um "work in progress" da doutoranda Inês N. Navalhas sobre o seu trabalho em curso "Communicating Science and Technology. Gradiva’s Books of Popularization of Science and Technology and the Portuguese Public"

Três recensões de livros: "Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism", Jonathan Harwood "La colonisation du savoir. Une histoire de plantes médicinales du “Nouveau Monde” (1492–1750)", Laia Portet-Codina "Pain, Pleasure, and the Greater Good. From the Panopticon to the Skinner Box and Beyond", Javier Moscoso