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Our women in science

On Women’s International Day, we highlight interviews we did with women researchers for our blog. The topics covered are as varied as their research areas.

Salvador de Toledo Piza Jr. and the Brazilian eugenics movement

It shows how Brazilian eugenicists reconfigured their practices after the Second World War and refused the idea that Brazilian eugenics would have been “soft” and dissociated from scientific racism.

27th International Congress of History of Science and Technology

The Congress will be held as a hybrid in-person and online event at the University of Otago’s Dunedin campus, New Zealand, in June-July 2025.

The sustainable management of cultural heritage

This work focuses on the Manguinhos Historical Architectural Site at the Fundação Oswaldo Cruz headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, analyzing the meaning of social participation in the recognition, appropriation, preservation, and enhancement of cultural heritage.

El freudomarxismo en España, 1975-1978

El trabajo de Miguel Huertas-Maestro analiza la pertinencia del término “freudomarxismo”, sus diferencias con un psicoanálisis militante argentino influyente en corrientes sociales del psicoanálisis en España, y hace una revisión histórica del movimiento.

La papa en la cordillera de los Andes

Este artículo de la antropóloga Laura Estupiñán presenta los hallazgos arqueológicos sobre la papa en la cordillera de los Andes y retoma los usos, significados y formas productivas nativas del alimento.