Universidade de Coimbra

Faculty Member, Faculdade de Letras

Currently Vice-Rector for International Relations

Thesis Title: Comportamentos Morais e Estruturas Sociais: a paróquia de Soure no Antigo Regime (1680-1720)

About

My full name is Joaquim Manuel Costa Ramos de Carvalho, and I am a professor at the University of Coimbra (http://www.uc.pt), Portugal, where I belong to the Department of History, Archaeology and Arts of the Faculty of Letters.

I recently joined the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies of the 20th Century (CEIS20 - http://www.uc.pt/ceis20).

My scientific interests include agent based modeling of historical processes, network analysis, micro-history, and self-organization in social phenomena. These topics are related in different ways to the consideration of human societies as complex adaptive systems, in the sense defined by John Holland in Hiden Order.

My current projects include:

CreativeCH: a project which aims to strengthen the cooperation and mutual innovation between institutions in the field of digital cultural heritage, science & technology, and cultural & creative industries.http://www.creative-heritage.eu/about.html

TimeLink: a database system micro-history that I have been developing for longer than I would like to confess. Originally known as MHK (Micro_History with Kleio), TimeLink has been undergoing a slow but significant evolution due to some unexpected funding oportunities. See http://timelink.fl.uc.pt/?lang=en

Englobe: A Marie Curie training programme for doctoral students producing and furthering critical reflection on Europe's role in the process of globalization. I coordinate one of the workgroups: http://www.englobe-itn.net

Recently finished projects:

Dyncoop.net: Part of European Science Foundation’s EUROCORES (European Collaborative Research) Scheme’s program “The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading”.  See http://www.dyncoopnet-pt.org/

Mater: Models of Territorial Self Organization (The acronym makes sense only in Portuguese). This project created an multi-agent simulation of how a population occupies a territory. It shows how simple rules produce complex patterns of evolution. See http://rhi.fl.uc.pt/mater

Religion and Philosophy - This was a thematic work group inside the biggest six framework programme network of excelence in the Humanities: CLIOHRES.net. I lead a fantastic group of researchers from different European countries to reflect on the role of Religion, Mythology and Rituals in the development of identities. We have been publishing a book a year with our findings for the last three years. Stressing but fun. See http://www.cliohres.net

For older projects see: http://eden.dei.uc.pt/~joaquim/homepage/projects/index.html

My teaching activity is currently centred on Computing and the Humanities, covering many of the different facets of the field, the most relevant of which is the direction of a European Master Programme on European Heritage, Digital Media and the Information Society (http://www.euromachs.net).