166 September 2019

The National Distance University’s (UNED) Associated Institution at Segovia, in conjunction with course sponsor, Fundación Juanelo Turriano, will deliver a course entitled Engineer’s books on 8-10 November geared to historians, engineers, art and science historians, architects, geographers and anyone interested in the subject.

Co-directed by Alicia Cámara, Head of the UNED’s Art History Department, and Bernardo Revuelta Pol, Director of Fundación Juanelo Turriano and coordinated by Enrique Gallego Lázaro, the course will conclude with a visit to the Academy of Artillery.

Programme and on-line registration (In Spanish)

The Fundación Juanelo Turriano announces the 10th edition of its García-Diego International Prize, worth 12,000 euros, for research in any of the branches of the history of technology. The prize is open to any individual or group submitting an original, unpublished paper in Spanish.

The deadline for submissions is 20 January 2020.

See rules (In Spanish)

An international congress on the The Middle Age City of Knowledge will be held on 16 and 17 September under the leadership of Alicia Cámara Muñoz, Álvaro Molina Martín and Margarita Ana Vázquez Manassero.

Daniel Crespo Delgado, Fundación Juanelo Turriano researcher, will participate with a lecture on Madrid during the Enlightenment: a city pursuing knowledge?

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The Chartered Institution of Civil Engineers is announcing the First Forum on Public Works as Cultural Heritage (characterisation, conservation and rehabilitation), designed for researchers, engineers, architects and heritage preservation managers.

Organised by the institution in conjunction with Centre for Historic Studies on Public Works and Urban Planning (CEHOPU) - Centre for Public Works Studies and Experimentation (CEDEX) and the Asociación de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos y la Ingeniería Civil, it will be held in Madrid on 21 and 22 October next.

Daniel Crespo Delgado, researcher with sponsor Fundación Juanelo Turriano, will participate with a lecture entitled The heavy impact of works heritage.

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An international symposium on Conceptual Design of Structures’will be held in Madrid on 26-28 September, organised by the International Federation for Structural Concrete (fib) and the Asociación Española de Ingeniería Estructural (ACHE).

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The Sixth International Congress on Roman Engineering, organised by the Chartered Institute of Associate Civil Engineers (Spanish initials, CITOPIC), will be held on 7 to 9 November at Santo Domingo de la Calzada in the Spanish province of La Rioja.

This edition of the congress will address a number of major urban waterworks.

Fundación Juanelo Turriano is one of the co-sponsoring institutions.

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