Balloon race in Barcelona, June 1907. Arxiu Fotogràfic de Barcelona
In the last decades, history of science, technology and medicine (HSTM) has underwent a deep transformation as an academic discipline. Social and cultural history has questioned the autonomy and universality of science, and has focused on concepts such as locality, contingency, practice and symmetry, among many others; the epistemological value of popular science/science popularization has been recently revisited; and more importantly: the material, visual, spatial, geographical turns have contributed to approach the city as a useful historical agent in our discipline. In my presentation, I will discuss, with some examples, why and how I think historians of science today shall progressively “urbanize” their thoughts and research questions.
Sobre o Orador: Agustí Nieto-Galan é professor associado de história da ciência no Centre d’Història de la Ciència (CEHIC), da Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Tem escrito extensivamente sobre história da química, história da popularização da ciência e história urbana da ciência, do século XVIII ao século XX. Recentemente publicou os livros Science in the Public Sphere. A History of Lay Knowledge and Expertise (Routledge, 2016), e Barcelona: An Urban History of Science and Modernity (1888-1929) (Routledge, 2016) (co-editado com Oliver Hochadel). Atualmente encontra-se a escrever um livro sobre o papel político da química em Espanha durante o século XX.
