PhD in History from the University of Porto, Portugal. Researcher at the Transdisciplinary Research Centre Culture, Space and Memory – CITCEM. Between 2018 and 2020, she was a researcher in the Postdoctoral Programme of the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Humanities of the University of São Paulo – USP/FFLCH. In 2021 she was a Lecturer of History of Culture in the Modern Period at the Department of History, Political and International Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. She has been working in the History of Science, focusing on the processes of construction and circulation of knowledge in the colonial spaces of the Portuguese Atlantic Empire throughout the modern period, emphasising the dynamics of knowledge production and the importance of local agents in its historical construction. Her new research project is “Informal Enlightenment: Early Modern self-organised networks of knowledge”.
Full Professor at the Department of History, Political and International Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. Her scientific interests include agent-based analysis applied to historical dynamics, social and economic networks, maritime communities and self-organizing networks in the Early Modern Age. Seaports history, migrations, transfers and flows between different continents and oceans, informal mechanisms of empire building, women as brokers and go-betweens in overseas empires and the environmental implications of overseas European colonization are key-subjects of Amélia Polónia’s current research. She was the scientific coordinator of the CITCEM Research Centre (Centro Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória) and the Principal Investigator of the research projects HISPORTOS; DynCoopNet, TECT/EUROCOES (ESF) project. She has been the scientific coordinator of the research network The Governance of the Atlantic Seaports (14th – 21st Centuries) and the research network CoopMar. Transoceanic Cooperation. Public Policies and Sociocultural Iberoamerican community.
Fabiano Bracht is a researcher at CITCEM (Centre for Transdisciplinary Research «Culture, Space and Memory») – Faculty of Arts, University of Porto. His research interests include the History of Medicine, Pharmacy and Natural Sciences within the scope of construction and circulation of scientific knowledge. His publications have addressed topics such as pharmacopoeias produced in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire context and the production and circulation of knowledge about medicinal drugs. Since 2021 he is a researcher at the ERC Project “RUTTER: Making the Earth Global”, at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.
PhD in History from the University of Porto, Portugal. Researcher at the Transdisciplinary Research Centre Culture, Space and Memory – CITCEM, and Global Flows Research Line coordinator. Between 2018 and 2020, she was a researcher in the Postdoctoral Programme of the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, Arts and Humanities of the University of São Paulo – USP/FFLCH. In 2021 she was a Lecturer of History of Culture in the Modern Period at the Department of History, Political and International Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. She has been working in the History of Science, focusing on the processes of construction and circulation of knowledge in the colonial spaces of the Portuguese Atlantic Empire throughout the modern period, emphasising the dynamics of knowledge production and the importance of local agents in its historical construction. Her new research project is “Informal Enlightenment: Early Modern self-organised networks of knowledge”.
Full Professor at the Department of History, Political and International Studies of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto. Her scientific interests include agent-based analysis applied to historical dynamics, social and economic networks, maritime communities and self-organizing networks in the Early Modern Age. Seaports history, migrations, transfers and flows between different continents and oceans, informal mechanisms of empire building, women as brokers and go-betweens in overseas empires and the environmental implications of overseas European colonization are key-subjects of Amélia Polónia’s current research. She was the scientific coordinator of the CITCEM Research Centre (Centro Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória) and the Principal Investigator of the research projects HISPORTOS; DynCoopNet, TECT/EUROCOES (ESF) project. She has been the scientific coordinator of the research network The Governance of the Atlantic Seaports (14th – 21st Centuries) and the research network CoopMar. Transoceanic Cooperation. Public Policies and Sociocultural Iberoamerican community.
Fabiano Bracht is a researcher at CITCEM (Centre for Transdisciplinary Research «Culture, Space and Memory») – Faculty of Arts, University of Porto. His research interests include the History of Medicine, Pharmacy and Natural Sciences within the scope of construction and circulation of scientific knowledge. His publications have addressed topics such as pharmacopoeias produced in the Early Modern Portuguese Empire context and the production and circulation of knowledge about medicinal drugs. Since 2021 he is a researcher at the ERC Project “RUTTER: Making the Earth Global”, at the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon.