Category: Talks

Ana Simões was one of the co-organizers of the meeting A Global History of Eclipse Reckoning (A Mathematics for Humanity Workshop), at the ICMS in Edinburgh. The E3GLOBAL team participated in several talks and activities: Ana Simões presented “Towards a global history of the 1919 total solar eclipse”; Hugo Soares, Luís Carolino, Ana Simões and…

Ana Simões and Ana Matilde Sousa, authors of the graphic novel Einstein, Eddington and the Eclipse – Travel Impressions, one of E3GLOBAL’s outputs, went to the Antena 1 radio program Pranchas e Balões to talk about the recently published 2nd edition. You can listen to the show here (PT only).

Ana Simões, Luís Carolino and Hugo Soares presented the paper “The 1919 Total Solar Eclipse – Astronomical Encounters as instances of science diplomacy.”

We were at the 7th ENHCT (National Encounter for the History of Science and Technology) in Évora presenting 6 papers:

Ana Simões presented the paper “Before and Beyond the 1919 Total Solar Eclipse and the British Expeditions – Instances of travelling knowledge Between Disciplines and Places” at the Workshop on Epistemic Transfer in the Humanities, Society for the History of Humanities.

The E3GLOBAL team was in Chicago for the 7th Biennial Kathleen A. Zar Symposium – Invisible Labor in Astronomy. Three papers were presented: “Three Astronomers and a Clockmaker: The Visibility of E. Cottingham in the 1919 British Expeditions” by Hugo Soares. “Behind the Scenes of the 1919 Eclipse: The Invisible Labor of the Portuguese and…

Joana Latas was at the 3rd International Conference for History of Science in Teaching, in Faro. The paper “Os Olhares de Eddington como mote para um trilho de Ciência na ilha do Príncipe” was presented.

Ana Simões was invited speaker at the 4th Iberian History of Mathematics Encounter, in Leiria. She presented the paper “The Many Faces of Prediction – Objectivos das expedições astronómicas organizadas na década de 1910 para testar a deflexão de luz”.

We invite all interested parties to attend the 1st Worskhop E3GLOBAL. Following our first year of activity, this workshop intends to publicly showcase our preliminary findings and work in progress. Participations is open, in-person and free, but please register through: e3global@fc.ul.pt. Complete Programme here.

Ana Simões and Ana Matilde Sousa participated in 2022′ SHOT, with the talk “Depicting Empire, Globalization and Technologies of Use: The 1919 Total Solar Eclipse and the British Expeditions to Sobral and Príncipe”.