Curriculum Vitae
maria do mar gago
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- maria do mar gago
Citation names
- Maria do Mar Gago
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- D815-2C0F-6E56
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3472-646X
Email addresses
- mariadomargago@gmail.com (Professional)
- mariagago@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
Websites
- https://ics.academia.edu/MariadoMarGago (Scholar)
- https://www.ics.ulisboa.pt/en/pessoa/maria-do-mar-gago-0 (Scholar)
- https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Maria_Gago4 (Scholar)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| French | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) |
| Italian | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2021/10 - 2022/06
Concluded
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Max Weber Teaching Certificate (Postgraduate Certificate)
Major in Teaching
European University Institute, Italy
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2010/10/01 - 2018/01/11
Concluded
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História: mudança e continuidade num mundo global (Doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
"Robusta Empire: Coffee, Scientists and the Making of Colonial Angola (1898-1961)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2005/09/01 - 2009/12/18
Concluded
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História e Filosofia das Ciências (Mestrado)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"The emergence of genetics in Portugal: J. A. Serra at the crossroad of political and genetic communities (1936-1952)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2003/09/01 - 2004/07/01
Concluded
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Curso Geral de Especialização em Jornalismo (Especialização pós-licenciatura)
CENJOR, Centro Protocolar de Formação Profissional para Jornalistas , Portugal
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1994/09/01 - 2001/07/01
Concluded
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Biologia (Licenciatura)
Major in Aplicada aos Recursos Naturais, vertente recursos marinhos
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2021/09/01 - Current | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal | ||
| 2020/09/01 - 2022/08/31 | Postdoc (Research) | European University Institute Department of History and Civilization, Italy |
| European University Institute Department of History and Civilization, Italy | ||
| 2019/05/07 - 2019/11/07 | Postdoc (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal | ||
| 2015/06/01 - 2016/06/30 | Researcher (Research) | Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal | ||
| 2014/05/01 - 2014/06/30 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Universität Wien Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Austria |
| Universität Wien Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Austria | ||
| 2012/06/01 - 2012/07/31 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Bibliothek, Germany |
| 2011/07/01 - 2011/08/31 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Bibliothek, Germany |
| 2010/06/01 - 2010/07/31 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Bibliothek, Germany |
| 2007/11/01 - 2008/02/28 | Researcher (Research) | Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2005/06/01 - 2007/06/30 | Researcher (Research) | ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia, Portugal |
| 2006/09/01 - 2007/06/01 | Researcher (Research) | Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2019/11/01 - 2020/04 | Tradutor | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
| 2019/01/01 - 2019/05 | Editor científico | Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal |
| 2008/01/01 - 2010/12/31 | Bolseira de Gestão de Ciência e Tecnologia | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
| 2009 - 2010 | Tradutor | Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Portugal |
| 2006/01/01 - 2007/12/31 | Jornalista | Ordem dos Biólogos, Portugal |
| 2004/06/01 - 2007 | Jornalista | Produtora Silva! Designers, Portugal |
| 2004/08/30 - 2004/12/31 | Jornalista estagiária | Agência Lusa, Portugal |
| 2003/01/01 - 2003/06/30 | Jornalista estagiária | Jornal O Público , Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2020/09/01 - 2021/08/31 | Making Coffee Global: World Collections, African Forests and Geopower (1933-1961)
2287811
Post-doc Fellow
European University Institute Department of History and Civilization, Italy
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European University Institute
Ongoing
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| 2019/05/07 - 2019/11/07 | ReSEED – Rescuing Seed’s Heritage
760090
Post-doc Fellow
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European Research Council |
| 2015/06/01 - 2016/06/30 | Field Scientists in Late Portuguese Empire: Knowledge, Ideology, Governance
IF/00519/2013
Research Fellow
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Concluded
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| 2010 - 2015 | Robusta Empire: Coffee, Scientists and the Making of Colonial Angola (1898-1961)
SFRH/BD/64093/2009
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Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior |
| 2008 - 2010 | Darwin's Evolution. An Exhibition of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
SFRH/BGCT/33323/2008
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Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian |
| 2005/06/01 - 2007/06/30 | Observatório Biologia e Sociedade
POCTI/SOC/50015/2002
Scientific Initiation Fellow
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Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2023/08/01 - 2024/08/01 | W.Box.Project. A caixa de Ward como objeto pedagógico na divulgação da História da Ciência
EXPL/In2Past/2023/07
Post-doc
Instituto de História Contemporânea - Centro de Estudos de História Filosofia e Cultura Científica, Portugal
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Ongoing
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Other
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2021/09/01 - Current | Making Coffee Global: World Collections, African Forests and Geopower (1933-1961)
2020.03783.CEECIND
Post-doc
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Ongoing
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| 2014/05/01 - 2014/06/29 | Tropical Botany in Exile: Mona Lisa Steiner (1915-2000)
P 24632 Einzelprojekte
Other
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Outputs
Publications
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/01/27 | The Romantic Crop. Robusta Coffee and Plant Geography in Colonial Angola (1898-1939) | 7º Encontro Anual de Economia Política
Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (LISBOA, Portugal)
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| 2023/12/14 | Angola as the New United States: Frederick Welwitsch, Portugal and the Empire of Cotton (1830-1875) | The Colonisation of Portugal
Instituto de História Contemporânea (LISBOA, Portugal)
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| 2023/07/07 | Sobre a Importância da História da Ciência para a História Colonial: o Caso do Café de Angola | Seminário de Doutoramento
Universidade de Évora (Évora , Portugal)
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| 2023/06/21 | The Romantic Crop. Robusta Coffee and Plant Geography in Colonial Angola (1898-1939) | Vicente de Mello Gago da Silva Gerner
Instituto de História Contemporânea (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/06/09 | Botanical Networks as Imperial Infrustructures: Plantations and agro-ecology in Colonial Angola (1940-1961) | Global Infrastructures: The Production of the Modern World
Universita degli Studi di Bologna (Bologna)
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| 2022/09/12 | Rescuing Coffee Diversity | The Late Summer Seminar of the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC)/ Department of History of Drexel University
Instituto de História Contemporânea (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2021/06/16 | Rescuing Coffee Diversity. Plant Pathology, Imperial Portugal and the Cold War | 15th Max Weber Fellows’ June Conference
European University Institute (Florence, Italy)
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| 2020/09/28 | Making Coffee Global: World Collections, African Forests and Geopower (1933-1961) | Max Weber Programme MW Fellows’ September Presentations 2020
European University Institute (Florença, Italy)
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| 2020/02/21 | Moving Coffee from the Cloud Forests of Colonial Angola to the Breakfast Tables of Main Street America (1940-1961) | Transnational Transactions: Negotiating the Movement of Knowledge Across Borders
Caltech, California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, LA, United States)
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| 2019/11/25 | Império Robusta: Sobre os cientistas da Junta de Exportação do Café (1940-1956) | Estado Novo: História, Política e Ciências Sociais
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2019/09/12 | Making Coffee Resistant: Plant Agency, World Surveys and Global Political History | International Conference of Rural History 2019
European Rural History Organization (Paris, France)
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| 2018/09/15 | Robusta Empire: Coffee, Agency and Power in the Making of Colonial Angola (1898-1961) | 8th Biennial ESHS Meeting of the European Society for History of Science
European Society for History of Science (ESHS) (Londres, United Kingdom)
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| 2018/07/19 | Following the Cloud: Investigating Long-term Trends of Making Coffee Grow in Colonial Angola (1898-1939) | 2018 International Conference of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOTHEC)
International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOTHEC) (Saint-Étienne , France)
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| 2018/06/25 | Café, Ciência e Descolonização: o Caso do Centro de Investigação das Ferrugens do Cafeeiro | Oficina Ciência e Império na Era da Descolonização
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/05/18 | Empire of Coffee: Environment and Technopolitics in the Making of Colonial Angola | International Congress Web of Knowledge: A look into the Past, Embracing the Future
Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
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| 2018/05/02 | Ciência, República e Ditadura | Seminário Cultura, Ciência e Política em Portugal no Século XX
Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/04/24 | Império Robusta: Café, Cientistas e a Construção do Estado Colonial em Angola (1898-1961) | Marcas do Império
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2017/10/28 | Standardizing Robusta: Coffee Beans and Agricultural Science in Colonial Angola | Annual Metting of the Society of the History of Technology / Panel The Republic of Plants: Plant Agency in the Movement of
Cropscapes
Society of the History of Technology (SHOT) (Philadelphia, Portugal)
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| 2016/01/28 | Surveying Angola, S. Tomé and Timor: Experts and Transnational practices | International Conference Old and New Worlds: The Global Challenges of Rural History
Rural RePort – Rede de História Rural em Português / SEHA (Sociedad Española de Historia Rural) / ISCTE-IUL (University Institute
of Lisbon) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2015/05/09 | Império e sustentabilidade. O caso do café no império colonial português | Forum Instituto de Ciências Sociais
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2014/09/05 | The reports of John Gossweiler about Angolan coffee production (1919-1939) | 6th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science ,
European Society for the History of Science (ESHS) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2014/09/05 | All for coffee: the United States and the Late Portuguese empire (1950s) | 9th Meeting of Scientific and Technology European Peripheries
Scientific and Technology European Peripheries (STEP) (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2014/07 | Clues from Nature’s orientation: coffee and its scientists in colonial Angola (1919-1939) | 2nd World Conference on Environmental History
International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations (ICEHO) (Guimarães, Portugal)
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| 2014/05/24 | História da ciência e história global: o caso do café no império colonial português, anos 50 | O império português na historia global
PIUDHist Conference, ISCTE-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2014/05/10 | Tracing coffee and scientists in the late Portuguese empire (1919-1961) | Group Meeting
University of Wien (Viena, Austria)
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| 2013/08/19 | Clues from nature: scientists and coffee plantations in colonial Angola (1919-1939) | European Society of Environmental History graduate student Summer School – Mountains Across Borders
European Society of Environmental History (ESEH) (Lavin, Switzerland)
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| 2013/08 | Coffee Rust Research Centre: The percolation of scientific knowledge | Seventh Biennial Conference of the European Society for Environmental History
European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) (Munique, Germany)
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| 2013/07 | Postwar ‘scientific cooperation’ and the late Portuguese empire: the emergence of the Coffee Rust Research Center | 2013 International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine
British Society of the History of Science (Manchester, United Kingdom)
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| 2013/06/06 | Império, ciência e café: as missões de reconhecimento agronómico dos Serviços de Agricultura de Angola (1919-1939) | Simpósio ICS Ciências Sociais Cruzadas
Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2013/03/11 | The coffee empire: Portuguese agricultural scientists in colonial Angola (1926-1961) | Shaping landscapes and building expertise: the role of imperial technology in the making of the 19th and 20th century world
CIUCHT Conference
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| 2012/06/21 | Agricultural scientists and the Portuguese coffee empire (1936-1975) | International Graduate Conference Portuguese Contemporary History
ISCTE (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2011/03/23 | Agronomy, coffee and the Portuguese colonial empire (1936-1975) | Meeting Group
University of Exeter (Exeter, United Kingdom)
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| 2009/12/15 | Relocating Science: Animal and the New State | Places of Modern Science: Situated Laboratories, Dispersed Artifacts, HoST 4th Annual Workshop
Instituto de Ciências Sociais Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2009/07 | Fields and Labs, groups and research schools: Portuguese geneticists and physicists under the fascist regime (1929-1954) | XXIII International Congress of History of Science
International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (Budapeste, Hungary)
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| 2008/06 | Portuguese Struggle for Synthesis: José Antunes Serra and the genetic controversies in the 1940’s | STEP’s 6th Meeting
Scientific and Technological European Peripheries (STEP) (Istambul, Turkey)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2022/10/20 - 2022/10/20 | Politics of Expertise: Past, Present, Future (Max Weber Programme Multidisciplinary Research Workshop) (2022/10/20 - 2022/10/20)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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European University Institute, Italy |
| 2022/10/13 - 2022/10/14 | Global and Planetary Histories: Materialisms Old and New, Deep Time, and Multi-Species Relationships (Max Weber Programme
Multidisciplinary Research Workshop) (2022/10/13 - 2022/10/14)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
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European University Institute, Italy |
| 2022/05/15 - 2022/05/16 | Chair of the Committee of the ICOHTEC Summer School 2022 (2022/05/15 - 2022/05/16)
Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)
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International Committee for the History of Technology, Germany |
| 2021/02/10 - 2021/06/10 | Envisioning the Global South(s) (Max Weber Programme Multidisciplinary Research Workshop)
(2021/02/10 - 2021/06/10)
Workshop
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European University Institute, Italy |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2019/12/19 - Current | Workshop designed to produce collective essays to be published in the peer-reviewed journal History and Technology
Workshop
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Workshop-Conference Republic of Plants
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India
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| 2023/05/19 - 2023/05/21 | Retiro do Instituto de História Contemporânea
Other
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Retiro do Instituto de História Contemporânea
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
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| 2013/08/17 - 2013/08/21 | 2013 Edition of the European Society of Environmental History Graduate Student Summer School, devoted to the theme “Mountains
Across Borders” and held in Lavin, Switzerland
Other
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European Society of Environmental History Graduate Student Summer School
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Germany Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany |
| 2011/05 - 2011/06 | 12th Ischia Summer School in the History of Life Sciences held in Ischia, Italy
Other
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Ischia Summer School in the History of Life Sciences
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Italy
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Germany Wellcome Trust, United Kingdom |
Ad Hoc journal article review
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2022/12/06 - 2023/02/28 | History and Technology | Taylor & Francis |
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
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| 2023/06/01 - 2023/11/17 | 7º Encontro Nacional de Historia da Ciencia e da Tecnologia | Universidade de Évora |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2022/04/25 - 2022/04/27 | History and the Anthropocene | (Master) | Masarykova univerzita, Czech Republic |
Interview (newspaper / magazine)
| Activity description | Newspaper / Forum | |
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| 2021/05/14 | Interview to Dipesh Chakrabarty about his book The Climate of History in a Planetary Age | Audio (Max Weber Programme Multidisciplinary Research Workshop) |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2018/02/01 - 2019/06/01 | HoST Journal of History of Science and Technology (1646-7752) | De Gruyter Poland |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2024/02/17 - 2024/02/17 | Evaluation session of students' prospectus (Master's projects) in the Erasmus Mundus History in the Public Sphere program | Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal Central European University Department of History, Austria |
Distinctions
Other distinction
| 2019 | Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship
European University Institute, Italy
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