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Juan Acevedo. Completed the Doctor of Philosophy in Combined Historical Studies in 2018/11/30 by University of London School of Advanced Study Warburg Institute and Licence in Lenguas y literaturas clásicas in 2001 by Universidad de Los Andes. Is Postdoc in FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências. Published 1 articles in journals. Has 1 book(s). Organized 2 event(s). Participated in 2 event(s). Participates and/or participated as Post-doc in 1 project(s). Works in the area(s) of Humanities with emphasis on Philosophy, Ethics and Religion with emphasis on History and Philisophy of Science and Technology and Humanities with emphasis on Philosophy, Ethics and Religion with emphasis on History and Philisophy of Science and Technology. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Oceano Índico; Cosmologia; Alfanumérico; Sistemas; Navegação; Astronomia náutica; Astrologia; Ciência islâmica; Manuscript studies; Arabic studies; Nautical manuscripts; Stellar Astronomy; 220206 History and Philosophy of Science (incl; Non-historical Philosophy of Science); FOS: Philosophy; ethics and religion; 220403 Islamic Studies; 210310 Middle Eastern and African History; FOS: History and archaeology; 200318 Middle Eastern Languages; FOS: Languages and literature; 90904 Navigation and Position Fixing; FOS: Environmental engineering; 220209 History of Ideas; 200206 Globalisation and Culture; FOS: Other humanities; 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified; FOS: Physical sciences; 210102 Archaeological Science; Oceanography; FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences; 91103 Ocean Engineering; 109999 Technology not elsewhere classified; FOS: Other engineering and technologies; 220203 History and Philosophy of Engineering and Technology; 200407 Lexicography; 91199 Maritime Engineering not elsewhere classified; 210110 Maritime Archaeology; Instrumentation; Techniques; and Astronomical Observations; codicology; palaeography; Latin; Medieval Studies; comparative studies; comparative religion; liturgy; Indian Ocean Studies; Early Modern Science; Globalization; Navigation; .
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Juan Acevedo

Citation names

  • Acevedo, Juan
  • J.J. Acevedo Villalba

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
651D-237C-173E
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5330-9672

Email addresses

  • juan.acevedo@gmx.net (Personal)

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • 926860098 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Centro de História das Ciências, Edifício C4, Sala 4.3.29, Faculdade de Ciências, 1749-016, Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

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

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Spanish; Castilian (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Arab Elementary (A2) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1)
French Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1)
Italian Advanced (C1) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1)
German Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2)
Ancient Greek (until 1553) Beginner (A1) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1) Advanced (C1)
Latin Elementary (A2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1)
Hebrew Beginner (A1) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2018/11/30
Concluded
 Combined Historical Studies (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Comparative History of Philosophy; Conceptual History; History of Science
University of London School of Advanced Study Warburg Institute, United Kingdom
"The Idea of Stoicheion in Grammar and Cosmology: From Antique Roots to Medieval Systems" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2001
Concluded
 Lenguas y literaturas clásicas (Licence)
Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela
"Amor: Historia profana de una palabra sagrada" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Summa cum laude
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/01/13 - Current Researcher (Research) University of Cambridge - CRASSH - Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) , United Kingdom
University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts Social Sciences and Humanities, United Kingdom
2020/01 - Current Postdoc (Research) FCiênciasID Associação para a Investigação e Desenvolvimento de Ciências, Portugal
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2003/07 - 2007/08 Science and Technology Management The Islamic Texts Society, United Kingdom
The Islamic Texts Society, United Kingdom

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2007/10 - 2010/07 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela
Universidad de Los Andes Facultad de Humanidades y Educación, Venezuela

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/11/27 - 2023/12/15 Guest Scholar The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, United Kingdom
The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, United Kingdom
2011/01 - 2019/12 Organic Unit Director The Matheson Trust for Comparative Religion, United Kingdom
The Matheson Trust for Comparative Religion, United Kingdom
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019/09/01 - Current Making the Earth Global: Early Modern Nautical Rutters and the Construction of a Global Concept of the Earth
833438
Post-doc
Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
 European Commission
Ongoing
2018/01 - 2018/11 Archaeology of Reading in Early Modern Europe
31600668
Researcher
University College London, United Kingdom
 The Andrew W Mellon Foundation
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Pacheco Pereira, Duarte. Esmeraldo de situ orbis. Lisbon, Portugal: ERC RUTTER Project. 2022.
    Published • 10.5281/zenodo.6498014 • Editor
  2. Acevedo, Juan. Alphanumeric Cosmology From Greek into Arabic. Germany. 2020.
    10.1628/978-3-16-159246-1
Book review
  1. Acevedo, Juan. "Artes y artesanías islámicas". Review of Islamic Arts and Crafts: An Anthology 2, 2 (2023): https://www.revistadelibros.com/artes-y-artesanias-islamicas/.
    Published
  2. Acevedo, Juan. "Book Review: Estudos da história da Náutica e das navegações de alto-mar". Review of Estudos da história da Náutica e das navegações de alto-mar (2021): https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.16652458.v1.
    Published • 10.6084/m9.figshare.16652458.v1
  3. Acevedo, Juan. "Book Review: A Maritime Lexicon (Salimi & Staples)". (2020): https://figshare.com/articles/online_resource/Book_Review_A_Maritime_Lexicon_Salimi_Staples_/12866123/1.
    10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.12866123.V1
  4. Acevedo, Juan. "Review of M.R. O'Connor's Wayfinding". (2020): https://figshare.com/articles/Acevedo-Review-OConnor_pdf/12382889/1.
    Published • 10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.12382889.V1
Conference paper
  1. Acevedo, Juan. "The sixteenth-century Portuguese Suma Oriental and the Arab pilots: A comparative summa orientalis?". Paper presented in 54th Seminar for Arabian Studies, 2021.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Munzi, Silvana; Giurgevich, Luana; Acevedo, Juan. "The many languages of oceanic navigation in the Early Modern period". Paper presented in Marie Curie Alumni Association Annual Conference 2023, 2023.
  2. Munzi, Silvana; Acevedo, Juan; Giurgevich, Luana; Moço, Miguel. "Global navigation made global: sustainable Digital Humanities". Paper presented in Jornadas Científicas da ULisboa - The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2022.
Edited book
  1. Acevedo, Juan. Introducción al griego. Venezuela. 2009.
Exhibition catalog
  1. Jesus, Roger Lee de; Bénard, Inês; Acevedo, Juan. The Portuguese in the Gulf 1507-1650: An Interlinked History. Emirate of Sharjah / Universidade de Coimbra, 2023.
  2. Acevedo, Juan; Bénard, Inês. Ahmad Ibn Majid. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2023.
Journal article
  1. Acevedo, Juan; Staples, Eric; Bénard, Inês. "Al-Mahri's Mir'at al-salak li-kurat al-aflak: A 16th-century Yemeni Navigator's Reflections on Astronomical Knowledge". Nouvelles Chroniques du manuscrit au Yémen 16 (2023): 96-120. http://www.cdmy.org/cmy/ncmy16_35.pdf.
    Open access • Published • 10.5281/zenodo.7981485
  2. Acevedo, Juan. "The sixteenth-century Portuguese Suma Oriental and the Arab pilots: A comparative summa orientalis?". Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 51 (2022): 1-5. https://archaeopresspublishing.com/ojs/index.php/PSAS/article/view/573.
    Open access • Published
  3. Acevedo, Juan. "A New Arabic Nautical Manuscript in Lisbon". Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Bulletin (2021): https://www.fdr.uni-hamburg.de/record/9620.
    10.25592/UHHFDM.9620
Online resource
  1. Acevedo, Juan. Islamic Navigation: A Middle Nation at Sea. 2022. https://www.leidenislamblog.nl/articles/islamic-navigation-a-middle-nation-at-sea.
  2. Acevedo, Juan. Book of the XXIV Philosophers (editio minima) (bilingual edition of the Liber XXIV philosophorum). 2015. https://www.themathesontrust.org/library/book-of-xxiv-philosophers-minor.
  3. Acevedo, Juan. Matheson Trust Sacred Audio Collection. 2012. https://www.themathesontrust.org/library/sacred-audio-collection-home.
Translation
  1. Acevedo, Juan. Pachi Tanglang Chuan. Norway. 2014.
  2. Acevedo, Juan. The Living Palm Tree. United Kingdom. 2010.
  3. Acevedo, Juan. Carta al discípulo. Spain. 2006.
  4. Acevedo, Juan. Símbolo y arquetipo. Spain. 2006.
  5. Acevedo, Juan. Creencias antiguas y supersticiones modernas. Spain. 2003.
  6. Acevedo, Juan. Himno Akátistos de la Madre de Dios. Spain. 2002.
  7. Acevedo, Juan. El libro de la certeza. Spain. 2002.
  8. Acevedo, Juan. Protágoras. Venezuela. 2001.

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. 2023. "Power of the Word V: The Emperor's Gift: Circles of Knowledge".

Other

Other output
  1. The Stars of Indian Ocean Arab Navigation. 2021. Acevedo, Juan. https://www.rutter-project.org/uploads/1/2/9/4/129482413/acevedo_benard_tn8.pdf.
    10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.14758605
  2. Indian Ocean Arab Navigation Studies Towards a Global Perspective. Annotated Bibliography and Research Roadmap. 2020. Acevedo, Juan. https://figshare.com/articles/Indian_Ocean_Arab_Navigation_Studies_Towards_a_Global_Perspective_Annotated_Bibliography_and_Research_Roadmap/12389855/1.
    10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.12389855.V1
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/04/18 Literatura marítima do Índico: problemas, encontros, métodos Seminário Ásia-Europa
Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS) and CIUHCT, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/04/11 Science and World Philologies: A Match Made in the Nine Heavens CIUHCT Lectures
CIUHCT, Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/05/04 al-Mahri's 'Conclusions' on Ratio et Ars: Insights from a 16th-century Arab Pilot European Renaissance
CIVIS-A European Civic University (Madrid, Spain)
2023/03/09 Cosmological diagrams between sense and reason Hi-Phi Seminar
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/01/10 What Was Nomical in the Astro Navigation of Early Modern Arab Pilots? Séminaire d’histoire des sciences astronomiques
SYRTE-Observatoire de Paris (Paris, France)
2022/02/24 Heavens Within the Sky: Celestial Forms in Greek and Arabic Seminário Helena Avelar de astronomia e astrologia antiga
CIUHCT, Faculdade de CIencias, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
2021/12 A New Arabic Nautical Manuscript in Lisbon 2021 Annual MESA Meeting
Middle East Studies Association (Quebec, Canada)
2021/10/21 The Common Root of Science and Religion Master of Arts in Religion, Culture and Peace Studies
University for Peace (San José, Costa Rica)
2021/10/14 The Pythagorization of Geographical Space: Between Ptolemy and the Indian Ocean Arab Pilots La réception du pythagorisme au Moyen âge et à la Renaissance
Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes (LEM) (Paris, France)
2021/09/23 Globalizatio ex nihilo? La globalidad científica primordial en el encuentro ibero– árabe Congreso Internacional "La Génesis de la Globalización"
University of Alicante (Alicante, Spain)
2021/07/11 The 16th-century Portuguese Suma Oriental and the Arab Pilots: A Comparative Summa Orientalis? 54th Seminar for Arabian Studies
Seminar for Arabian Studies (Durham, United Kingdom)
2021/04/22 Governance and Navigation from Plato to Ibn Majid History and Theory of International Relations Colloquium
University of Groningen (Groningen, Netherlands)
2021/04/21 Science, Technique and Craft of Indian Ocean 15th-century Navigation: Arabic Terminology in Context 66th Annual Meeting
Renaissance Society of America ((online), United States)
2019/06/10 Alphanumeric Cosmology: The Grammar and Arithmetic of the Cosmos Temenos Academy
The Royal Asiatic Society (London, United Kingdom)
2017/11/25 In Praise of Forgetting: Lost and Found in 'Es' and 'Ns' Being Human Festival 2017
Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2017/10/26 L'alphabet et la grammaire du langage de la Nature J.M. Briceño Guerrero Association
Maison de l’Amérique Latine (Paris, France)
2017/06 Duality and Plurality in the Elements: A Herme(neu)tic Exploration "Climates & Elements" 2nd John of Seville and Lima Conference
Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London (London, United Kingdom)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2021/07/28 - Current A Tale of Two Seas: Circulation of Knowledge Between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans
Co-supervisor
 History and Philosophy of Science (PhD)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2020/03/04 - Current International Early Modern and Medieval Arabic Science Reading Group, meeting weekly (2020/03/04)
Meeting (President of the Organising Committee)
 Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/03/30 - 2023/03/30 1st FCUL Wikipedia edit-athon: one-day workshop for collective institutional editing of Wikipedia and related sources. (2023/03/30 - 2023/03/30)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/01/24 - 2022/01/25 RUTTER International Workshop: Sailing the Transcultural Indian Ocean: Early Modern Texts and Practices in Contact (2022/01/24 - 2022/01/25)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
 Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/09/24 - Current Stand design and presentation at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento for the Noite Europeia dos Investigadores Ciência para o Clima
Festival
 Noite Europeia dos Investigadores "Ciência para o Clima": Navigating the Unknown: Accounts of the First Oceanic Voyages
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
2019/01 - Current Codicology & Manuscript Cataloguing Study Weekend
Workshop
 Codicology & Manuscript Cataloguing Study Weekend
University of London School of Advanced Study Institute of English Studies, United Kingdom
2023/12/04 - 2023/12/04 Public talk at AKU, London
Seminar
 Celestial and Maritime Grids and Circles: Digitisation Work on Cosmological and Nautical Manuscripts
The Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, United Kingdom
2022/09/07 - 2022/09/09 Joint editorial workshop within the Global Epistemics transdisciplinary series established in partnership with Rowman & Littlefield. See https://www.gloknos.ac.uk/media/book-series
Workshop
 Navigation, Connectivity, and the opening of (global) spaces II
University of Cambridge - CRASSH - Centre for Global Knowledge Studies (gloknos) , United Kingdom