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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]

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”.