
Augusto P. Celestino da Costa
Aug 25, 2020 | Chapters, Publications

Augusto P. Celestino da Costa (1884-1956): Visões de política na organização da ciência em Portugal [Augusto P. Celestino da Costa (1884-1956): Policy visions in the organisation of science in Portugal]
- Tiago Brandão
- História Biográfica e Intelectual da Ciência e da Tecnologia: Atores, Ideias e Identidades [Biografical and Intelectual History of Science and Tecnology: Actors, Ideas, and Identities]
- Tiago Brandão (Org.)
- 2020
- Lisbon: Instituto de História Contemporânea | Colecção E-IHC
- Language: Portuguese
- ISBN: 978-989-8956-19-4
- 225-252 p.
Excerpt:
A ideia de “visões de política” remete para uma dimensão pouco explorada pelo género biográfico, sobretudo quando aplicado à história da ciência ou à expansão das suas fronteiras “internatlistas.” Largamente explorado no âmbito da história intelectual e das ideias, é uma das áreas da história com preceitos disciplinares bem definidos e consagrados na obra de autores reconhecidos (Skinner 2002). A noção de visões políticas, associadas à Ciência e à Tecnologia, é uma característica da empresa tecnocientífica, senão desde os seus primórdios, mas indiscutivelmente visível ao longo do século XX (Cholakov 2000). A ideia de visões políticas, enquanto um olhar que permite valorizar uma dimensão da atividade humana, é algo que nos parece rico, prenhe de potencialidades para olharmos algumas individualidades da nossa história da ciência. É isso que se fez aqui, relativamente ao cientista Augusto P. Celestino da Costa, valorizando uma dimensão da sua obra que normalmente não surge suficientemente analisada..
About the book:
Este livro de contributos vários percorre século e meio de ideias e autores, por via de uma aproximação biográfica, metodologia comum a todos os colaboradores, em que é possível termos assim uma medida interessante dos temas e desafios que condicionaram a implantação da modernidade científica (e técnica) em Portugal.
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Workshop seeking to encourage a comparative discussion on dissolution of several European empires, with a greater emphasis on those which unravelled in the aftermath of post-1945 European decolonization. Contested
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Workshop seeking to encourage a comparative discussion on dissolution of several European empires, with a greater emphasis on those which unravelled in the aftermath of post-1945 European decolonization.
Contested Imperial Endings
In the twentieth century, the dissolution of several European empires occurred in the context of armed conflicts, whether major conflagrations such as the First World War or the counterinsurgency wars in colonial spaces. Some of these imperial break-ups were sudden, happening after military defeats, such as the capitulation of the German and Habsburg empires in 1918, or as the culmination of protracted colonial wars which proved to be deeply divisive among the metropolitan publics, such as the Algerian war of independence or the decolonization wars in Portuguese-speaking Africa. The circumstances surrounding some of the major political decisions which involved capitulations or negotiated agreements with nationalist movements may have been quite different, but there were significant similarities as well. In all these cases, a sense of wounded pride or deep resentment surfaced in the discussions that followed the political settlements that allowed for the surrender of territory.
Accusations of ‘scuttle’, ‘abandonment’, ‘neglect’, ‘irresponsibility’, or even ‘treason’, came to the fore in several debates, poisoning political discussions for quite some time. The myth of the ‘stab in the back’, which emerged after the German and Austrian collapse of 1918, and was also present in several debates in European metropoles after 1945, influenced conspiracy theories that shaped debates in the following years, with echoes that reach the present day.
Based on an ongoing research project that assesses metropolitan reactions to the conduct of the Portuguese military in East Timor in 1975, a workshop under the auspices of the Institute of Contemporary History and the Portuguese Commission of Military History, will be held in Lisbon in September 2025, seeking to encourage a comparative discussion on some of these themes in various contexts, with a greater emphasis (but not exclusively) on those which unravelled in the aftermath of post-1945 European decolonization.
Call for papers
We welcome papers which may highlight:
- The language and images which permeated debates in several countries (United Kingdon, France, Belgium, the Netherlands).
- The role of public opinion and the media.
- The undertaking of inquiry commissions into aspects of decolonization/imperial retreat.
- Attempts to bring charges against individuals (politicians, military) in courts of law.
- The consequences experienced by those targeted by the accusations (i.e., in their political and professional careers, or even on a more violent level).
Please send your abstract (max. 300 words) until 30 May 12 June to projetodectil@gmail.com.
The organizing committee will reply until 15 June.
English will be the working language.
Presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes.
The expected outcome of the workshop is the submission of a dossier/special issue to an international peer-reviewed journal.
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Organisers:
Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA University Lisbon
Portuguese Commission of Military History
The event is part of the FCT research project DecTiL — Auditing Decolonization in Timor-Leste, 1974-82: the Riscado Report (doi.org/10.54499/2023.10636.25ABR)
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8 (Segunda-feira) 9:00 am - 9 (Terça-feira) 4:00 pm
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Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Portuguese Commission of Military History
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