04-12-2017
The CIUHCT's 1st Distinguished Lecture, which took place on November 7th, brought to Lisbon Professor Jurgen Renn, director of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) and renowned expert and promoter of the Anthropocene debate, in the perspective of the Social and Human Sciences. Jurgen Renn, in association with Professor Dr. Bernd Scherer, director of the "Haus der Kulturen der Welt" (HKW), has organized, since 2014, the Anthropocene Campus which together with the innovative pedagogical experience of the Anthropocene Curriculum constitute the reference of the debate about how a new transdisciplinary body of knowledge - the "earthbound knowledge" - that can be effective in understanding and evaluating the time in which we live must be constituted.
The CIUHCT (Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology), which is now the leading research unit in this context in Southern Europe - has been present from the first moment in the Anthropocene Campus / Curriculum, either through the presence of its Coordinator and Co-Coordinator, Professors Maria Paula Diogo and Ana Simões, respectively from FCT NOVA and FCUL, as seminar commentators, as well as by their doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers who have participated actively in the courses.
In October 2017 CIUHCT was one of the co-organizers of the Anthopocene Campus of Philadelphia (Drexel University) and the Coordinator and Co-Coordinator of CIUHCT were Seminar Leaders. This newspaper article at”Público” gives an account of the main topics under discussion and of the work already developed at CIUHCT, namely within the projects financed and submitted to FCT / MCTES and that take place in the Faculty of Sciences and Technology.
