The Italian Society for the History of Science / Società Italiana di Storia della Scienza (SISS) is pleased to announce a new Seminar Series:
SISS Meets Early Careers - 2nd series 2025
The series is conceived as an informal place for early career scholars to discuss their research, present, future and past. Each session focuses on broad themes in the history of science and knowledge, bringing together diverse approaches, methodologies and chronologies. The series is open to international scholars and broad collaboration between disciplinary fields.
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10th June 2025, 4.30pm CET
Dannylo de Azevedo (University of Pisa and University of Lisbon)
Title: Intermittency in the scientific collaboration networks of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences in the Late 18th Century
Abstract
Founded on December 24, 1779, the Lisbon Academy of Sciences was established to promote the scientific development of Portugal and its empire. Under the patronage of the Portuguese state, the institution fostered intellectual and scientific sociability among intellectuals and statesmen from diverse backgrounds, spanning various European countries and more distant locations across the Portuguese empire. To this end, the Academy structured and institutionalized scientific collaboration networks as effectively as possible through a membership system. This system included resident members, primarily based in Lisbon, who actively participated in the institution’s daily activities, and corresponding members responsible for communicating with their metropolitan counterparts regarding objects and topics of technical or scientific significance. These collaboration networks, therefore, involved individuals who engaged with the institutionalization of scientific activity in different ways. In this context, although the Academy effectively functioned as an important central institutional reference, the dynamics of its collaboration networks were, at various moments, marked by the intermittency of communication or interaction among the individuals and groups that comprised them.
Bio: Dannylo de Azevedo is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Pisa, Italy, and the University of Lisbon, Portugal. His research examines the intellectual production of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences between 1779 and 1822, focusing on its political role in shaping economic reform projects for the Portuguese Empire. He holds a BA in History (2014) and an MA in Economic History (2018) from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. His master's research explored the circulation of agricultural books within the Portuguese Empire in the late 18th century.