Entre el domingo 23 y sábado 29 de julio de 2017 se realizó el 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology (ICHST), en Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, con el tema general: “Science, Technology and Medicine between the Global and the Local”.
Con la participación de 1.300 delegados de los 5 continentes este congreso es el primero que se realiza en Sudamérica en los 80 años de organización de este evento.
En esta versión se contó con la presencia de investigadorxs chilenxs y, en algunas comunicaciones, análisis de casos en que Chile formaba parte de los datos en discusión o como referencia, como se puede ratificar en la lista que se deja disponible a continuación.
Fotografías (de izq. a der.) 1. de pie Sławomir Łotysz, Antoni Roca-Rosell y Nelson Arellano; Rodrigo Booth exponiendo; Cristobal Quezada; 2. Rodrigo Booth organizador de Simposio N° 99 junto a expositora Marina Rieznik; Catalina Valdés; 3. Verónica Ramírez y vista panorámica de un pasillo del Instituto de Economía de la UFRJ del campus Praia Vermelha.
Abstracts: Chile at ICHST 2017.
From wireless telegraphy to broadcasting. Technological appropriation of the radio in Chile, 1901-1931. Cristóbal Quezada Herrera, Universidad de Chile Martín Pérez Comisso, Universidad de Chile.
Political Technologies. Reinforced concrete and modernization of the territory in Chile (1906-1925). Rodrigo Booth, University of Chile
Astronomy and Literature in Chile: Dialogue and discussion in the public space (1880-1930). Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz, Universidad de Chile and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Solar energy techniques and their intermittent duration (XIX-XX centuries). Antoni Roca-Rosell, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Nelson Arellano, Universidad Arturo Prat
A prime meridian in the Southern Hemisphere: the scientific network based in Santiago de Chile in the mid-19th century. Amari Peliowski, Universidad de Chile Catalina Valdés, Independent scholar
Hygiene, progress and modernization. The vision of electricity in the introduction of tram and electric lighting in Santiago de Chile, 1890-1910. Yohad Zacarías, University of Chile
Controversial cartographies: science, technique and ideology in forest cartography (Chile). Enrique Aliste, University of Chile
The emergence of School Health: Medical and Educational discourses and policies in Chile between wars (1920-1940). Josefina Cabrera, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
A new tuberculosis? Society, health policies and globalization in Chile. 1973-2008. Marcelo López Campillay, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Local diffusion of a global practice: The smallpox vaccination in Chile, 1805-1830. Paula Caffarena, Universidad Finis Terrae
Midwives, nurses and social workers: Female health professionals and the Welfare State, Chile, 1950-1973. María Soledad Zárate Campos, Departament of History, University Alberto Hurtado
Chile as a case:
Impacts of France’s scientific cooperation (France-AmSud) on the regional integration of South American scientists. Paulo Henrique Ribeiro Neto, PROLAM – USP
The origins of Critical Geography in Latin America. Maria Verónica Ibarra García, UNAM Alejandra Peñas García, Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua Edgar Talledos, Colegio de San Luis
Hans Steffen, a Prussian geographer in the Chilean Andes. Circulation of theories, scientific practices, fieldwork and instruments to reinterpret the legacy of the colonial frontier and draw the boundary between Argentina and Chile (1889-1914). Carla Lois, CONICET
Sources for introducing social insurance to the Latin America: Emil (Emilio) Schoenbaum and Czechoslovak actuarial mathematics. Jan Kotulek, Technical University of Ostrava
Patenting and Licensing Strategies of an Independent Engineer: The Case of Heinrich Aumund (1873-1959). Wolfgang König, Technische Universität Berlin
Social movements’ challenge to the role of private insurance companies in Colombia’s 1990s health reforms. Diana Goretty Oviedo Manrique, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Ocupational Accidents in Argentina: Theoretical Perspectives. Karina Ramacciotti, CONICET
Global History and Latin America: Current Debates and Perspectives. Andres Baeza, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Nutrition Policy and the Limits of Social Medicine in the Latin America, 1930-1950. Eric D. Carter, Macalester College
Andean Adventures in Bioprospecting: Luther Burbank, José Husbands, and the Boundaries of Botany. Luis Campos, University of New Mexico
From Atlantic to Pacific: Francis Schmitt, Axon Biophysics, and the Hunt for Squid in Woods Hole and Montemar, 1950-1970. Kathryn Maxson Jones, Princeton University
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