Sumários
Knowledge, Science and Technology
2 novembro 2026, 11:00 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Topics: The Enlightenment and the New Culture of Knowledge; Science, Reason and the Making of Modern Society; The Industrial Revolution and Technological Change; The Expansion of Literacy, Education and Mass Knowledge Science, Technology and the Expansion of Global Connections; The Professionalisation of Science and the Rise of Research Institutions; Knowledge, Empire and Colonial Science; Mapping the World: Cartography, Statistics and the Classification of Peoples; Medicine, Public Health and the Control of Disease; Communication Technologies and the Transformation of the World. Science, Technology and the Unequal Distribution of Knowledge. Reading: Osterhammel, Jürgen (2014), “Knowledge: Growth, Concentration, Distribution,” in The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, trans. Patrick Camiller, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 779–825.
Knowledge, Science and Technology
2 novembro 2026, 09:30 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Topics: The Enlightenment and the New Culture of Knowledge; Science, Reason and the Making of Modern Society; The Industrial Revolution and Technological Change; The Expansion of Literacy, Education and Mass Knowledge Science, Technology and the Expansion of Global Connections; The Professionalisation of Science and the Rise of Research Institutions; Knowledge, Empire and Colonial Science; Mapping the World: Cartography, Statistics and the Classification of Peoples; Medicine, Public Health and the Control of Disease; Communication Technologies and the Transformation of the World. Science, Technology and the Unequal Distribution of Knowledge. Reading: Osterhammel, Jürgen (2014), “Knowledge: Growth, Concentration, Distribution,” in The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century, trans. Patrick Camiller, Princeton: Princeton University Press, pp. 779–825.
Citizenship and Social Movements
26 outubro 2026, 11:00 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Topics: Revolution and Citizenship: France and the Atlantic World; Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and the Expansion of Political Rights; Nationalism and the Transformation of Political Belonging; Abolition, Emancipation, and the Citizenship of Former Slaves; Workers, Social Movements, and the Struggle for Political Rights; Women’s Suffrage and the Expansion of Citizenship; Empire, Race, and the Boundaries of Citizenship; Migration, Nationality, and the Making of Citizens and Aliens; Mass Democracy, Social Citizenship, and the Nation-State. Reading: Tilly, C. (1995). Citizenship, Identity and Social History. International Review of Social History, 40(S3), 1–17
Citizenship and Social Movements
26 outubro 2026, 09:30 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Topics: Revolution and Citizenship: France and the Atlantic World; Liberalism, Constitutionalism, and the Expansion of Political Rights; Nationalism and the Transformation of Political Belonging; Abolition, Emancipation, and the Citizenship of Former Slaves; Workers, Social Movements, and the Struggle for Political Rights; Women’s Suffrage and the Expansion of Citizenship; Empire, Race, and the Boundaries of Citizenship; Migration, Nationality, and the Making of Citizens and Aliens; Mass Democracy, Social Citizenship, and the Nation-State. Reading: Tilly, C. (1995). Citizenship, Identity and Social History. International Review of Social History, 40(S3), 1–17
Urbanisation, Class, Gender and Race
19 outubro 2026, 11:00 • Gonçalo Rocha Gonçalves
Topics: Industrialization, Urbanization, and Social Class; The Working Class and the Politics of the City; The Bourgeois City: Wealth, Consumption, and Respectability; Gender and the Transformation of Urban Life; Women, Work, and the Public Space; Race, Migration, and the Making of Urban Societies; Colonial Cities and Racial Segregation; Housing, Poverty, and Urban Social Reform; The Interwar Metropolis.
Reading: C. A. Bayly, “Industrialization and the New City,” in The Birth of
the Modern World, 1780–1914: Global Connections and Comparisons (Malden,
MA: Blackwell, 2004), pp. 170–198.