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Jaume Valentines Álvarez é professor de história da ciência e da tecnologia da Universidade Autònoma de Barcelona e membro do Institut d'Història de la Ciència desta universidade. É investigador colaborador do Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, CIUHCT. Email: jaume.valentines.alvarez@uab.cat
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Jaume Valentines-Álvarez

Citation names

  • Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1D1F-3D41-9103
ORCID iD
0000-0001-7642-5353

Email addresses

  • jaume.valentines.alvarez@uab.cat (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Catalan Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Education
Degree Classification
2012
Concluded
 History of Science (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (Doutoramento)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
"Tecnocràcia i catalanisme tècnic a Catalunya als anys 1930. Els enginyers industrials, de l'organització del taller a la racionalització de l’estat" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2008
Concluded
 History of Science (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (Master Universitario)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
"Redefinicions socials i espacials de l'enginyeria a la Guerra Civil a Catalunya. El Fons Ramon Perera i la defensa passiva" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2005
Concluded
 History (Universitat de Barcelona) (Bachelor)
Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de Geografia i Història, Spain
"-" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2002
Concluded
 Industrial Engineering (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) (Bachelor)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
"El Museu de l’Enginyeria de Catalunya: Bases conceptuals per a la creació d’un museu universitari" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/12/18 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/01/01 - 2021/06/30 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/10/01 - 2020/01/01 Université de Genève (UNIGE) - Visiting scholar Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Université de Genève Bâtiment Uni Mail, Switzerland
2018/10/01 - 2018/12/18 Université de Genève (UNIGE) - Visiting scholar Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Université de Genève Bâtiment Uni Mail, Switzerland
2014/09/01 - 2018/12/18 Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (CIUHCT), Departamento de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas (DCSA), FCT/UNL (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2017/03/01 - 2017/05/01 Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWP), Department II (coord. professor Lorraine Daston) - Visiting scholar Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Germany
2002/09/01 - 2012/06/30 Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya - BS student (2002-2005), scholarship Research Technician (2005-2008), Master student fellowship (2007-2008), PhD candidate fellowship (2009-2012) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
2011/02/01 - 2011/06/30 Área de Historia de la Ciencia, Universidad de Granada - Doctoral Stay Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
2010/10/01 - 2011/01/30 CHoSTM, Imperial College of London - Doctoral stay Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2014/09 - 2018/12 Technocrats for the Nation or the Nation for Technocrats? Technology, Governance and Citizenship in Southern Europe (1929-1975)
SFRH/BPD/93264/2013
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2017/01 - 2017/04 Iberian engineering and historiography of science during the Cold War: Ruptures and continuities between democratic and fascist regimes
-
Researcher
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/06/01 - Current Museos, aulas y política: Cultura científica i tecnológica en la Transición española (MUSAUPOL, PID2019-104897GA-I00, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación)
PID2019-104897GA-I00
Researcher
Universitat de València, Spain

Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Ongoing
2016/01/06 - Current Engineering the Anthropocene: Colonial Science, Technology and Medicine and the changing of the African landscape (Anthropolands)
PTDC/IVC-HFC/6789/2014
Researcher
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
Ongoing
2016 - Current Mathematics and Engineering: new critical viewpoints (XVI-XX centuries)
HAR2016-75871-R
Researcher
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Ongoing
2016/04/01 - 2020 Visions of Lisbon: STM and the making of a techno-scientific capital, 1870-1940 (VISLIS)
PTDC/IVC-HFC/3122/2014
Researcher
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017 - 2019 From the Cabinet of Wonders to the Popular Anatomical Museum: Regimes of Exhibition and Material Culture of Medicine
HAR2015-64313-P
Researcher
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain
Ongoing
2014 - 2016 Mathematics, engineering, heritage and sustainibility in the modern and contemporary world
NABS130136
Researcher
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
 Gobierno de Espana Ministerio de Educación Cultura y Deporte
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Álvarez, Jaume. El Fons “Ramon Perera”: Imatges de la defensa passiva a Catalunya (1938-1939). Spain. 2008.
Book chapter
  1. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume. "Os golfinhos e o reactor: Política, tecnologia e resistências ao nuclear em Portugal". In História da Ciência, Tecnologia e Medicina em Portugal. Volume IV. Tinta da China, 2021.
    Accepted
  2. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume. "A Fascist Coney Island? Salazar's Dictatorship, Popular Culture and Technological Fun, 1933-1943". In Lisbon, 1880-1940. Visions of a techno-scientific Atlantic metropolis. 2020.
    Submitted
  3. Álvarez, Jaume. "The Quest for the Technological Soul of the Nation: the Catalan Forge and the Display of Politics (1914-1939)". In Behind the Exhibit. Displaying Science and Technology at World’s Fairs and Museums in the Twentieth Century. Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2019.
  4. Valentines-álvarez, J.; LoPresti, E.. "The atom in the garden and the apocalyptic fungi: A tale on a global nuclearscape (with artworks and bird-songs)". 180-200. 2019.
  5. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume. "The Atom in the Garden and the Apocalyptic Fungi: Framing Narratives about a Global Anthroposcape". Routledge, 2019.
  6. Roca-Rosell, Antoni; Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume. "Le patrimoine du génie industriel à Barcelone. Les collections éducatives: origines, préservation et avenir". In Cabinets de curiosités, collections techniques et musées d’arts et métiers: origines, mutations et usages. Paris: Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, 2018.
    Accepted
  7. Álvarez, Jaume. "Unity and heterogeneity within the “great family” of industrial engineers: profession, economics and ideologies during the Second Spanish Republic (1931-1939)". In Les ingénieurs: unité, expansion, fragmentation, XIXe et XXe siècles (Tome 1: La production d’un groupe social). Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2018.
    Published
  8. Álvarez, Jaume. "Tecnologías para sobrevivir la violencia total, 1936-45. Tragedia de refugios antiaéreos en tres actos, prólogo y cuadro final". In Um balanço/Political violence in the 20th Century: A Balance. Portugal: Instituto de História Contemporânea, 2017.
    Published
  9. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume; Sastre-Juan, Jaume. "Technological Fun: the Politics and Geographies of Amusement Parks". In Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity, 1888–1929, edited by Nieto-Galan, Agustí; Hochadel, Oliver, 92-112. New York: Routledge, 2016.
    Published
Book review
  1. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume. "Richard Grusin, ed. After Extinction". 39:2, (2019): 534.
    Published
  2. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume. "Guillermo Lusa Monforte: Història, enginyeria i compromís". 17, (2019):
  3. Álvarez, Jaume. "Lino Camprubí, Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2014". 9, (2014):
  4. Álvarez, Jaume. "Manuel Silva Suárez (ed.), Técnica e Ingeniería en España. Vol. VII". (2014):
Conference paper
  1. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume. "Spreading the atom, encapsulating politics: An archaeology of the containment building of the Barcelona nuclear reactor". Paper presented in 3rd International Conference of the Quarantine Studies Network “Matters of Containment”, Lisbon, 28-29 May 2020, 2020.
    Under revision
Exhibition catalog
  1. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume. Un cel sota terra / An sky underground. 2019.
Journal article
  1. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume. "Tilting at nuclearmills? Grassroots knowledge and technologies of protest in South-Western Europe, 1970s-1980s". NTM. Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine 29 2 (2021):
    Open access • In press
  2. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume; Sastre-Juan, Jaume. "The Failed Technology Museum of Catalonia". Nuncius 34 1 (2019): 128-154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18253911-03401005.
    Published • 10.1163/18253911-03401005
  3. Álvarez, Jaume. "La ingeniería de la autonomía: Catalanismo y tecnocracia en la Segunda República Española". Ayer. Revista de Historia Contemporánea 117 2 (2019):
    In press
  4. Álvarez, Jaume. "Making fun of the atom: humour and pleasant forms of anti-nuclear resistance in the Iberian Peninsula, 1974-1984". Centaurus. Journal of the European Society For The History of Science (2019):
    Accepted
  5. Sastre-Juan, Jaume; Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume. "Fun and Fear: The Banalization of Nuclear Technologies through Display". Centaurus. Journal of the European Society For The History of Science (2019):
    Published
  6. Valentines–Álvarez, Jaume. "Seeing like a Factory: Technocratic Nationalism in Catalonia, 1930–1939". History and Technology 34 3-4 (2018): 235-258. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07341512.2019.1565745.
    Published • 10.1080/07341512.2019.1565745
  7. Macedo, Marta; Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume. "Technology and Nation: Learning from the Periphery". Technology and Culture 57 4 (2016): 989-997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2016.0118.
    Published • 10.1353/tech.2016.0118
  8. Álvarez, Jaume. "Elogi de la trans(in)disciplinarietat. Transsexualitat, ciència i història". Afers: Fulls de Recerca i Pensament 31 84 (2016):
    Published
  9. Álvarez, Jaume. "Interview with professor David Edgerton, CHoSTM (Imperial College London)". Quaderns d’Història de l’Enginyeria, vol. XII, p. 259-266 (2011):
  10. Álvarez, Jaume. "Crossroads of heritage: The material culture of science and technology in universities". Opuscula Musealia xviii (2010):
    Published
Journal issue
  1. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume. "Special Issue: Fun and Fear: The Banalization of Nuclear Technologies through Display". Centaurus. Journal of the European Society For The History of Science 61 1 (2019):
    Published
Magazine article
  1. Valentines-Álvarez, Jaume. "Quand le silence tue: La radioactivité muette des mines d'uranium au Portugal", Silence Revue, 2020
Manual
  1. Álvarez, Jaume; Sastre-Juan, Jaume. Tecnologia, nació i poder. Una aproximació històrica (1792-1989). Barcelona: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. 2014.
    Accepted
  2. Álvarez, Jaume. Innovació tecnològica i canvi social al segle XX. Guia docent. Barcelona: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. 2014.
    Published
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Álvarez, Jaume. "Tecnocràcia i catalanisme tècnic a Catalunya als anys 1930: Els enginyers industrials, de l'organització del taller a la racionalització de l’estat". 2012.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2020/09/01 Hydrocarbon toxics in Lisbon EXPO 98: Memory, environment and visual politics 9th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Bologna, 1-3 September 2020
European Society for the History of Science (Italy)
2019/12/19 Made visible! On citizens and nuclear science Seminar Series on Citizen Science
ERC "Citizen Science" Research Group, University of Geneva (Geneva, Switzerland)
2018 Fun as normal resistance to nuclear technology in the Iberian Peninsula, 1974-1984 ERC Citizen Science Colloquia - Rethinking Science and Public Participation
University of Geneva (Switzerland)
2017 Razor Wire in Fortress Europe: Technology, Pain and the Control of Space 8th Tensions of Europe Conference (Theme: “Borders and Technology”)
(Greece)
2017 Fascist and nuclear non-legacies? Making a 2300-m3 nuclear block disappear in Barcelona city, 1962-2005 “Nuclear Legacies” Conference
(Sweden)
2017 Ciência e tecnologia no colonialismo tardio Jornada de Estudos Africanos “Ciências e Letras en Contexto Colonial e Pós-Colonial”
LEHAf, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
2017 A scream in the park: Hygienism and technological fun in Lisbon and Barcelona 25 International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST, “STM between the Global and the Local”), Rio de Janeiro
Federal University, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
2017 The White Elephant' in the line of fire of AK-47s: Cahora Bassa dam, hydrofascism and communist guerilla in Mozambique, 1966-1975 “Hydroimperialism, hydrocapitalism, communism and crises” - Workshop, Lisbon
CIUHCT
2016 Anthropolands. Common pathways among colonial technologies, anthropocene and crisis Technology, natural resources and crises in the past and present of Europe and beyond - Workshop
National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE), SHT, Aarhus University (Russia)
2016 Power and display: Museums, science and politics in Southern Europe, 1918–1939 7th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Prague
ESHS, Czech Society for the History of Sciences and Technology and Charles University (Czech Republic)
2016 Engineering Fun: Amusement Parks, Urban Spaces and Social Control (Barcelona, 1909-1929) Apparatuses simulating the world, from the beginning of the 19 th century until the present: Inventing, testing and transforming reality
University of Geneva (Switzerland)
2016 Some thoughts on barbed wire in Fortress Europe 4S/EASST 2016 Conference: Science and Technology by other Means
(Spain)
2016 The atom in the Garden and the Apocalyptic rider: framing narratives about a Global Landscape Ars versus Natura. Gardens as topic and stage for discussion on the Anthropocene, International Workshop
CIUHCT (Portugal)
2015 Violent undiscipline. Technology, environment and armed resistances in Spain and Portugal, 1971-1982 Undisciplined Environments. International Conference of the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE), Stockholm
KTH (Sweden)
2015 We have to give way to technicians': Taylorism in Anarchism and Technocracy for Acracy in Spain during the 1930s Anarchism and Technê Workshop: Techniques and Technologies of Transformative Practices
Zentrum für Technik und Wissenschaft, Technischen Universität (Berlin) (Germany)
2014 Engineering the Social Revolution: Technocrats in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) 6th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science (ESHS)
European Society for the History of Science (Portugal)
2014 Technological Seduction: the Politics of Amusement Parks in Barcelona (1888-1929) 9th STEP Meeting. Science and Technology in the European Periphery
STEP / CIUHCT (Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2020/01/06 - Current Anthropocene Campus Lisbon: Parallax (Anthropocene Curriculum, in collaboration with Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the MPIWG), Culturgest, Lisbon, 6-11 January 2020. (2020/01/06)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
2020/01/01 - Current Exposição: 'Glass Room Experience': Explorando a vida digital (2020/01/01)
Exhibition (Co-organisor)
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2018 - Current Biofonias sem primavera: sons, pássaros e desertificação (2018)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2018 - Current Estado Novo, Cidade Nova? Ciência, cidade e fascismo em Lisboa, 1933-1945 - Session 6 Encontro Nacional de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia (2018)
Symposium
2017 - Current Nuclear Fun? Banalization of Nuclear Technologies through Display - International workshop (2017)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2016 - Current Nuclear Fun? Banalization of Nuclear Technologies through Display - Session, ICOHTEC Annual Meeting (2016)
Congress
2012 - 2019 STM in the Square: Governance, Empowerment and Resistance - Anual Workshop (2012 - 2019)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Spain

Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2017 - 2021 CTS/Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade (1.0 & 2.0) Ciência, Tecnologia e Sociedade (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2020/08/01 - Current History of Science (0073-2753)
2019 - 2020 HoST. Journal of History of Science and Technology (1646-7752)