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28 – 29 March 2019. UNESP, Bauru, São Paulo (Brasil) Deadline: 22 October 2018 The annual event has been organized by Railway Memory Project (funded by FAPESP since 2007), originally as a researcher seminar to share the scientific results of their team. In 2019, we invite others young investigators to participate and to present their most important results about Brazilian Railway History or Railway Heritage. The aim are welcoming young graduate and undergraduate researchers who investigate the railways, in a multi perspective meeting. Then, we organized the III Young Investigators Meetings 2019 as a opportunity to discussing the scientific results and stimulating research for all postgraduate andRead More →

29-31 May 2019. Museu da Farmácia (Pharmacy Museum), Lisbon (Portugal). Session Proposal Deadline: 30 August, 2018 Paper Proposal Deadline: 15 November, 2018 Under the aegis of the Plastics Heritage European Association (PHEA), the Portuguese Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT) will host the Plastics Heritage Congress 2019. Plastics Heritage: History, Limits and Possibilities, the congress’ general theme, is the fifth in a series of international Plastics Heritage Conferences and will be held in Lisbon , the capital city of Portugal, at Museu da Farmácia, from 29th to 31st May 2019. This congress aims to address plastics history and heritage by encouraging papersRead More →

4 – 6 October 2018, National Science and Technology Museum of Catalonia (mNACTEC) International convention on the question of labor housing and its periodization, diversity, morphology and organization. The convention will go beyond mere fieldwork, incorporating other disciplines including the history of science and technology, sociology, architecture, urban planning and economic and social history. Organised by the National Science and Technology Museum of Catalonia (mNACTEC) with the collaboration of the International Committee for the Conservation and Defence of Industrial Heritage (TICCIH), the Association for the industrial heritage of Champagne-Ardenne Grand Est (APIC) and Associació per la Defensa del Patrimoni de la Colònia Sedó i elRead More →

De 28 a 30 junho 2018. Aveiro (Portugal) As cidades constituem um dos mais notáveis símbolos exteriores do mundo industrial. Com o desenvolvimento da industrialização, as funções até então desempenhadas pelas cidades multiplicaram-se e complexificaram-se, num processo que foi acompanhado por um acentuado crescimento urbanístico. O fenómeno da desindustrialização ocorrido nas últimas décadas trouxe um novo olhar sobre as cidades. Agora, com uma enorme disponibilidade de sítios industriais devolutos, é necessário encontrar soluções que não passem apenas pela sua demolição. O restauro e a reutilização constituem medidas possíveis e apropriadas para evitar aquela opção, com vantagens nos domínios da preservação da memória histórica, da identidadeRead More →

28 – 29 March 2019. UNESP, Bauru, São Paulo (Brasil) Deadline: 22 October 2018 The annual event has been organized by Railway Memory Project (funded by FAPESP since 2007), originally as a researcher seminar to share the scientific results of their team. In 2019, we invite others young investigators to participate and to present their most important results about Brazilian Railway History or Railway Heritage. The aim are welcoming young graduate and undergraduate researchers who investigate the railways, in a multi perspective meeting. Then, we organized the III Young Investigators Meetings 2019 as a opportunity to discussing the scientific results and stimulating research for all postgraduate andRead More →