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29-30 November 29-30, 2019. At Federal University of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais (Brazil). It will bring together policy makers from Europe and South America (Brazil, Argentina, …), researchers from prestigious institutions and managers of research infrastructures of global relevance. The participants will have the chance to: Discover the landscape of heritage science in South America and Europe; Identify cooperation opportunities offered by the European Union Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation; Explore best practice in bilateral cooperation; Learn about access to European research infrastructures: large scale, mobile, archive and data facilities; Get to know about projects on data and heritageRead More →

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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 →

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22-27 July 2019, Katowice (Poland) Deadline for proposals is 15 January 2019 Social theorists from Max Weber to Jürgen Habermas have argued that power relations are among the defining characteristics of every society, along with culture and economic relations. The main theme of this conference, Technology and Power, seeks to interrogate the various roles technologies have played in the development of power relations in the past, in different parts of the world. Political power (local, state, and inter-state) is the most obvious of these, but relations of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, labour, age, and so on, also include elements of power. Technologies have instrumental,Read More →

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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 →

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24, 25 and 26 October de 2018. Alcalá de Guadaíra, Andaluzia (Spain) Since its creation, the Industrial Heritage Foundation of Andalusia (FUPIA) has been working to contribute to the protection of Industrial Heritage in an integral manner, as well as in its dissemination among citizens. Among the activities carried out by the Foundation, is the organization of the International Congress of Industrial Heritage and Public Works that, after the first three editions in the format of Jornadas Andaluzas in the years 2010, 2012 and 2014, managed to give a quality jump with the celebration of the I International Congress held in 2016 in the cityRead More →

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23 a 24 outubro 2018. FAU/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) Busca promover o debate conceitual e metodológico aplicado ao estudo da cidade e da paisagem atravessada por linhas férreas. Está orientado para consolidar um intercâmbio científico nacional e, possivelmente internacional, sobre questões ferroviárias e urbanas. Os territórios ferroviários constituem-se por espaços urbanos atravessados ou caracterizados pela presença, imediata ou não, de linhas férreas. Como perceber esse espaço através da sua forma? Convidamos à discussão sobre as possibilidades e os limites da percepção destes espaços, seja através da morfologia dos territórios e das paisagens ou de estudos com perspectivas sensoriais e emocionais sobreRead More →

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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 →

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26 a 29 de setembro de 2018. Gijón, Astúrias (Espanha) Las XX Jornadas Internacionales de Patrimonio Industrial han obtenido el Sello Eu- ropeo del Patrimonio Cultural, un reconocimiento que la Unión Europea, a través del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, ha concedido a esta iniciativa que contribuye al logro de los objetivos del Año Europeo del Patrimonio Cultural. Hasta la fecha, las Jornadas se han celebrado ininterrumpidamente durante veinte años. Son de las más veteranas o longevas, desde que en los años setenta del pasado siglo en el Reino Unido comenzaron a poner énfasis y sensibilidad de investigadores y ciudadanos ante la importancia históricaRead More →

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17 – 21 July, 2018. Saint-Etienne (France) From the 17th until the 21st July 2018, Saint-Étienne (France) will welcome the 45th Symposium of International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC). Historic land of industrial culture and technological innovation, the host region (Firminy) includes the Le Corbusier site which has just been listed as a World Heritage site. Saint-Etienne and its university will serve as a meeting and reflection space for researchers from 5 continents. These researchers will explore the history of innovation and technologies incorporating the trend of heritage and its major importance in modern society. The transformation of industrial regions is at theRead More →

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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 →