Colloquium

History of Science – PUC-SP: 20 Years
31 July and August 1, 2017
Casa das Rosas, Av. Paulista, 37

Program

Date and time	Activities
July 31
9h-9h30	Opening
9h30-11h	Session 1
11h-11h15	Coffee break
11h15-12h45	Session 2
12h45-14h	Lunch time
14h-16h	Session 3
16h-17h30	Poster session
17h30-19h	Session 4
19h-20h	Dedication, cocktail
August 1
9h-10h30	Session 5
10h30-10h45	Coffee break
10h45-12h15	Session 6
12h15-13h30	Lunch time
13h30-15h30	Session 7
15h30-16h	Closing

Plenary sessions

Session 1: 31 July  (9:30 – 11:00)
Chair: Marcos Galindo (UFPE)
Cartographies and cosmographies

• Thomas Haddad (ECAH/USP, Brazil): Comets over the New World: reports, interpretations and polemics throughout the Americas, 1652-1690
• Iris Kantor (FFLCH/USP, Brazil): Cartographers and the spatial dynamics of the Atlantic slave trade XVIII-XIX: the Portuguese maps
• Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann (CNRS, France): Manuscript Japanese world map (1886) from Banco Santos Collection: De-centered Ways of Knowledge Transmission

Session 2: 31 July  (11:15 – 12:45)
Chair: Elaine Souza (CAPES, Brazil)
Communicating Science

• Isabel Malaquias (Aveiro University, Portugal): Communicating and discussing some chemistry and medicine aspects through a personally centred correspondence
• Gilson Queluz (UFTPR, Brazil): Evolutionist conception in series La lucha por la vida [The Struggle for Life] in Anarchist magazine Estudios [Studies] (1935)
• Paulo A. Porto (IQ/USP, Brazil): A tabela periódica em livros de química geral nos EUA (1900-1960)

Session 3: 31 July  (14:00 – 16:00)
Chair: Vera Cecília Machline (CESIMA/PUC-SP)
Aspects of the Relationship Between Chemistry, Pharmacy and Medicine

• Georges Métailié (Centre Alexandre Koyré, France): How traditional Chinese materia medica entered modern medicine in China, 1956-1977.
• Liliana Schifter & Patricia Aceves (UNAM, México): Actors, sites and practices: Mexican materia medica, 18th-19th centuries
• Hjalmar Fors & Nils-Otto Ahnfelt (Uppsala University): Mapping and making theriac
• Patrice Bret (Centre Alexandre Koyré, France): Napoleon's colonial laboratories: sites of chemistry, pharmacy and medicine during the French occupation of Egypt (1798-1801)

Session 4: 31 July  (17:30 – 19:00)
Chair: Carla Bromberg (CESIMA/PUC-SP)
Structures and Organization of Knowledge

• Stephen Weldon (Oklahoma Univ., USA): Shaping historical knowledge for a digital infrastructure: The IsisCB and the history of science
• Itala d’Otaviano (UNICAMP, Brazil): Basic concepts for a general theory of self-organizing systems
• Lucia Santaella (PUC-SP, Brazil): The digital metabolism of the humanities

Session 5: 1 August (9:00 – 10:30)
Chair: Luiz Carlos Soares (UFF, Brazil)
Science in Brazil (19th and 20th century)

• Cristiana Couto (CESIMA/PUC-SP, Brazil): Coffee and its relation to health and nutrition in nineteenth century Brazil
• Marimélia Porcionatto (UNIFESP, Brazil): Development of genome projects in Brazil: Xyllela, the success case, and human cancer, the failure case
• Andrea P.S.O Kamensky (UFABC, Brazil) e Suzana Ribeiro (Unitau, Brazil): Oral History and History of Science: Giuseppe Cilento and the establishment of a new field of chemical studies

Session 6: 1 August (10:45 – 12:15)
Chair: Maria Helena Roxo Beltran (CESIMA/PUC-SP)
Studies on Early Sciences

• Carlos Henrique Barbosa Gonçalves (ECAH/USP, Brazil): Measurements and calculations in ancient Mesopotamian administrative practices (The region of the Diyala, 2000-1600 BCE)
• Carlos Arthur R. do Nascimento (PUC/SP, Brazil): Retrospectiva sobre as ciências intermediárias
• Jennifer Rampling (Princeton University, USA): The alchemical world of early Tudor England

Session 7: 1 August (13:30 – 15:30)
Chair: Silvia Waisse (CESIMA/PUC-SP)
From the Laboratory to Mass Production

• Celina A. Lértora Mendoza (FEPAI, Argentina): Producción de medicamentos: cuestiones  científicas y políticas de los últimos años en Argentina, con relación a Brasil y México
• Mariana Ortiz et al. (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México): Pharmacy and pharmaceutical patents in México within the first quarter of the 19th century
• Frank James (Royal Institution/UCL, UK): What Davy did in Bristol
• Hasok Chang (Cambridge Univ., UK): A tale of two batteries