230 September 2024

Fundación Juanelo Turriano reminds candidates that the deadline for submitting applications for the second edition of Pedro Navascués Prize for PhD theses is 20 December 2024.

Topics must be confined to the history of engineering. All branches and eras are eligible. Papers relating to the Foundation’s career will receive preference in scoring.

See requirements and award criteria (In Spanish)

Download registration form (In Spanish)

Gracias a… Pedro Navascués. Academia, Historia y Patrimonio [Thanks to… Pedro Navascues. Academy, History and Heritage], a book written in homage to Pedro Navascués Palacio, a fellow of the academy and chairman of the Monuments and Historic Heritage Commission, will be presented on 30 September at noon in the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts’ Guitarte Hall.

Pedro Navascués was president of Fundación Juanelo Turriano from 2020 until his death.

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The Asociación para la Conservación y Estudio de los Molinos (ACEM, Association for the Conservation and Study of Mills) has organised the second ACEM study workshop taking place from 4 to 6 October in Sigüenza under the theme Sigüenza, nearby mills and hydraulic artifices used in salt mines.

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The deadline for submitting papers for the 52^nd ICOHTEC Symposium is 1 March 2025.

The symposium, whose theme is Peoples, Places, Exchanges, and Circulation, will be held from 29 June to 5 July 2025 at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand, as part of the 27^th International Congress of the History of Science and Technology (ICHST).

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The first showing of the documentary Del agua y las máquinas. Los 21 libros de los ingenios [On Water and Machines. The 21 Books of Devices] took place at the Residencia de Estudiantes on 17 September. The film is an episode of season two of the series Tesoros y fantasmas de la ciencia española [Treasures and Ghosts of Spanish Science], directed by Paco and Juan Pimental.

One of the film’s participants is Daniel Crespo, a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and a researcher at Fundación Juanelo Turriano, where part of the documentary was filmed.

To see the presentation click here.

The 26^th International Industrial Heritage Conference will be held in Gijón on 25-28 September under the theme Heritage dynamics in post-industrial territories.

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