EP #234 - 03.05.2021 - COVID-19 in Portugal

Today is a discussion of COVID-19 in Portugal with João Machado, Inês Navalhas  Tiago Saraiva, & Hugo Soares.

João Machado has been a research fellow in History of Science and Technology since 2012, and since 2020, a PhD candidate in History, Philosophy and Heritage of Science and Technology at the NOVA School of Science and Technology. His project is concerned with computing in Portugal in the 1980s, linking the framing of computing as a wider social concern with the new development perspectives opened by the 1974 Democratic Revolution.

Inês Navalhas is a PhD candidate in History, Philosophy, and Heritage of Science and Technology at NOVA School of Science and Technology. Her thesis concerns science communication in a portuguese book collection focused on science and technology. Inês is recently working in an European Project called NEWSERA, related to citizen science as a new form of science communication and ENJOI, also an European Project regarding science journalism in Europe.

Tiago Saraiva is Associate Professor of History at Drexel University, coeditor with Amy Slaton of the journal History and Technology, and author of Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism (2016). He is currently studying the significance of cloning Californian oranges for the history of racial capitalism in the United States, South Africa, Algeria, Palestine, and Brazil, and completing Moving Crops and the Scales of History, a collective manuscript with multiple co-authors.

Hugo Soares is a Ph.D. candidate in History, Philosophy, and Heritage of Science and Technology at the New University of Lisbon. His dissertation project studies the development of the Portuguese Scientific Research System after the 1974 Democratic Revolution and he has also been developing work in Material Culture and Scientific Instruments.