SEMINAR – Presentation
” Almanacs for a New World: the practical transformation of Italian and Spanish Medical Astrology and Meteorology in the Americas (1485-1621)”
Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
Term Fellow’s Presentation II
I Tatti, The Harvard University Center For Italian Renaissance Studies
Florence, Italy, 2 October 2025


CONFERENCE – Presentation
“Almanacs for a New World: the Iberian-American repertorios de los tiempos“
Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
Usable temporalities: time and writing in Early Modern Almanacs and Calendars,
Université de Fribourg (Switzerland), organised by Prof. Dr. Vitus Huber.
Fribourg, 15-16 May 2025



CONFERENCE – Presentation
” ‘La mudança de los tiempos’: astrología médica y meteorología en la modernidad temprana Ibero-americana”
Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
IX Seminario de Historia y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Universidad de Antioquia
Medellín, 2 April 2025


WORK IN PROGRESS – Presentation
“Change is in the Air: Medical Astrology and Meteorology in early modern Spanish-American Almanacs”
Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
School of History, Classics and Archeology, The University of Edinburgh.
Organised by Richard Oosterhoff (History).
Edinburgh, 15 November 2024


WORK IN PROGRESS – Presentation
“Nature, body and environment (tiempo) in Early Modern Spain and the Americas (1492-1600)”
Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
Work in Progress Seminar of the Warburg Institute.
The Warburg Institute, University of London.
London, 16 October 2024

SEMINAR – Presentation
“Astrology, Almanacs, and the Global Shift: From Flat Charts to Spherical Maps in Early Modern Ibero-America”
Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
History of Scholarship and the Global Imagination. Organised by Stefano Guilizia and Vladmír Urbánek.
Scientiae & Filosofický ústav Akademie věd České republiky.
Torino – Prague, 7 October 2024


WORKSHOP – Presentation
“Local and global conceptions of space. The case of repertorios de los tiempos“
Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
Rayas. Global lines, mathematical frontiers. Organised by Henrique Leitão and José María Zamora.
RUTTER-ERC, CIUHCT | Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa.
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, 26 and 27 September 2024


CONFERENCE – Presentation
“Celestial knowledge in transit: Diagrams of (the end of) the World in Iberian-American repertorios de los tiempos“
Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
“Astronomy and cosmology in Iberia, 1550-1650” was organised by the late José Chabás and Miguel Ángel Granada. 11th Conference of the European Society for the History of Science.
European Society for the History of Science ESHS 2024
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 4-7 Septiembre 2024

MULTIMEDIA – Podcast
“Iberian-American reportorios: Cosmology, Knowledge & Astrology with Sergio Orozco-Echeverri”
Ad Astra Podcast – The Astra Project
Conductor: Luís Ribeiro, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
CONFERENCE – Presentation
“Nature, body and environment in early modern Iberian-American repertorios de los tiempos“
Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
Scientiae – Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World
Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), 11-14 June 2024


COLLOQUIUM – Presentation
“Astrología: recorrido y auge en el Renacimiento”
Pablo Mejía and Juan Pablo Estrada
Research Colloquium of the Research Group Conocimiento, Filosofía, Ciencia, Historia y Sociedad.
Universidad de Antioquia, 23d February 2024


WORKSHOP – Presentation
“On the place and dignity of Earth: reasoning on gravity in Early Modern Iberian-American contexts”
Leverhulme Workshop Making Evidence and Crafting Gravitational Knowledge in the Early Modern World.
The University of Warwick, 6th July 2023

PUBLICATION – Research article – [Open access]
“Popular science as knowledge: early modern Iberian-American repertorios de los tiempos“
Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
Galilaeana, 20 (1), 2023, pp. 31-64.

MULTIMEDIA – Podcast
“The vault of stars and the vault of buildings: carpentry and history of science” [In Spanish]
Podcast “Problemas de la ciencia y su historia”
Conductor: Sergio Orozco-Echeverri; Guest: Sebastián Molina-Betancur (Bergamo, Italy)
PUBLICATION – Essay review
“The mirror of court society: aristocratic values and the usefulness of knowledge in Benedetti’s Diversarum speculationum (1585)”
Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
Galilaeana, XIX, 2022, pp. 119-123.
MULTIMEDIA – Roundtable
Mathematics and empire: certainty and the usefulness of knowledge in Early Modern Spanish Kingdoms
Roundtable organised by Sergio Orozco-Echeverri for the Renaissance Society of America, RSA 2022 Virtual. 2nd December 2022.
Discussants:
- Helbert Eduardo Velilla Jiménez (University of Salamanca)
- Sebastian Molina-Betancur (Università degli Studi di Bergamo)
- Nuno Castel-Branco (All Souls College, University of Oxford)
- David Salomoni (Università per Stranieri di Siena)
- Luis Ribeiro (Universidade de Lisboa)
- Henrique Leitão (Universidade de Lisboa)
WORKSHOP – Presentation
The “unknown heaven”: comets, celestial novelties, and the structure of the cosmos in the early modern Iberian-American repertorios de los tiempos.
Presentation by Sergio Orozco-Echeverri
Susan Manning Workshop, IASH University of Edinburgh / Ca’Foscari University of Venice. Supernovae, comets, and Aristotelian cosmology.
Ca’Foscari University, Venice, 27th June, 2022

PUBLICATION – Journal article – [Open access]
A mestizo cosmographer in the New Kingdom of Granada: astronomy and chronology in Sánchez de Cozar Guanientá’s Tratado (c.1696)
Sergio Orozco-Echeverri, co-authored by Sebastián Molina-Betancur.
Annals of Science, 78 (3), 2021, pp. 295-333.
PANEL – Presentation
Stars, creatures, and identities: the popularisation of astrology through Spanish-American repertorios de los tiempos
Presentation by Sergio Orozco-Echeverri.
Panel “History of Science: Nature, Environment and Empire” organised by the University of Edinburgh and the Universidad de Antioquia.
October 15, 2021.
MULTIMEDIA – Online material
The cosmology of the last judgment. Cosmology and calendric astronomy in an early modern Neogranadian manuscript.
Presentation by Sergio Orozco-Echeverri.
Produced at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh, as part of the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship “Early modern science in global context”.







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