Aimed at researchers in the field of the history of science, technology and medicine to develop research projects that make use of the collections of the "Vicent Peset Llorca" Library and/or the Museum of the History of Medicine and Science of the López Piñero Interuniversity Institute of the University of Valencia (IILP-UV)
Call: Annual (academic calendar). Deadline: October 1
Duration: 1 or 2 weeks
Requirements: Doctorate (or advanced doctoral studies). Link the research project with the IILP-UV collections and its lines of research. To present the results of the research in the cycle of seminars or other teaching and dissemination activities of the IILP-UV. Hold working meetings with the members of the IILP-UV.
Funding: Intended for accommodation expenses in the Rector Peset Hall of Residence (or similar) for a maximum period of two weeks. The amount awarded will depend on the duration, economic availability and the number of grants granted in the call.
The recipients of the grants will have a workspace at the IILP-UV, a library card (with access to the "Vicent Peset Llorca" Library and all the libraries of the University of Valencia), the collections of the Museum of the History of Medicine and Science of the IILP-UV, and the electronic resources of the University of Valencia.
Instructions:
Candidates must submit:
1.- Complete curriculum vitae.
2.- Research project (around 500-600 words), indicating its relationship with the "Vicent Peset Llorca" library, the collections of the Museum of the History of Medicine and Science and other activities developed at the López Piñero Interuniversity Institute.
3.- Approximate dates of the stay.
The documentation with the subject "Vicent Peset Llorca Grants" must be sent in digital version (PDF) from 1 September and always before 1 October of the current year to the following two email addresses:
Ximo Guillem <Ximo.Guillem@uv.es>
Carlos Escudero <carlos.escudero@uv.es>
IMPORTANT: The documentation must be sent to both email addresses.
Researchers awarded grants in previous editions:
BEORLEGUI ZARRANZ, DAVID (Universidad a Distancia de MADRID (UDIMA))
The Toxic Legacies of Deindustrialization: The Case of Lindane
December 2024
BRENNER, ELMA (Wellcome Collection, London)
Material cultures of the plague in Spain, 1560-1610
May 2025
D’AMARO, FRANCESCO (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Agro-natural resources and environmental protection in Spain around the sixties and eighties of the twentieth century.
September 2025
MASRAMON CRUZATE, ALBA (University of Barcelona)
The history of nursing in contemporary Catalonia
February 2025
RODRÍGUEZ, MARTA VALENTINA (University of Vigo)
Female Diseases in the Works of the French Alienists of the Nineteenth Century
January 2025
Isabelle Schürch (University of Bern)
One body, one Heath in 16 th Century Medical Texts
February 2024
Monique Palma (Interuniversity Center for the History of Science and Technology (CIUHCT NOVA))
Rabies in documentary collections - the case of the Institute of the Universitat de València
March 2024
Jana Cerna (Brown University (USA)
Travelling. Mexican flora and its unexpected journeys, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries.
May 2024
Paulina León Triviño (University of Chicago)
Writing Contagion: Cultures of Plague in the Early Modern Spanish Empire.
June 2024
Luis Pablo Núñez (University of Granada)
Study of the botanical and medical voices of the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries: creation and terminological consolidation.
June 2024
Felipe Martínez Fernández (University of Leeds).
Exploring Basal Metabolism: Jaime Pi-Suñer, Indigenous Communities and Racial Perspectives in Twentieth-Century Physiology.
July 2024
