The Memory Center
Represent the Brazilian scientific community, promote the advancement of science and technology, and encourage innovation for the benefit of society.
Memory Project of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences
The ABC’s mission is to represent the Brazilian scientific community, promote the advancement of science and technology, and encourage innovation for the benefit of society. Considering its more than 100 years of existence and the large volume of documentation relating to its history, intertwined with that of Brazilian science, the ABC José Murilo de Carvalho Memory Project was created in 2023, carried out in collaboration with the Museum of Astronomy (MAST) and financed by the Rio de Janeiro State Research Support Foundation (Faperj).
The website of the ABC José Murilo de Carvalho Memory Center will allow public access to the ABC’s documentary collection, which includes records on paper, such as minutes, correspondence, publications, printed materials, manuscripts, files and folders with documentation from living and deceased academics, and a variety of official documents, in addition to recordings of interviews, conferences, lectures and activities carried out with personalities from the areas of science, technology and education in the country.
This material is of special interest to researchers, scientists, students and the community interested in the history of Brazilian science. Disseminating the ABC’s collection to the general population aims to impact the perception of the importance of scientific knowledge in the history and present of the country, as well as in the construction of a future based on scientific evidence for the Brazilian nation.
The Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC) is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit entity, founded in 1916, in Rio de Janeiro. It acts as an honorary scientific society, promoting the scientific, educational, and social development of Brazil, facilitating interaction between Brazilian scientists and international researchers, in addition to contributing to the formulation of public policies based on scientific evidence.
The existence of the ABC should be celebrated for several reasons, including the role it played in the institutionalization of science in Brazil, with its members actively participating in the creation of the CNPq, Capes, Finep, FAPs, universities, and other innovative science and technology institutions; for valuing, throughout its trajectory, scientific merit and the best national scientists; and for its defense of democracy, quality education, the scientific and technological development of the country, and the international insertion of Brazil in the main team of countries in the world, with regard to science, technology, and innovation.
José Murilo de Carvalho
José Murilo de Carvalho (1939-2023) is considered one of the greatest intellectuals in Brazil, for his academic production, intellectual rigor, and quality of writing. Renowned as a historian, political scientist and writer, he was elected to the Brazilian Academy of Sciences in 2003 and to the Brazilian Academy of Letters (ABL) in 2004.
With a doctorate from Stanford University, in the USA, he graduated in sociology and politics from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), where he taught throughout his life and became a professor emeritus. He was one of the founders of the postgraduate program in political science at UFMG and the University Research Institute of Rio de Janeiro (Iuperj). He also worked as a visiting professor at universities such as Oxford and London.
José Murilo focused his research on the history of Imperial Brazil and the First Republic, areas whose study he revolutionized. He highlighted the themes of citizenship and republicanism, the formation of the State, and the role of elites, and dedicated himself to defending democracy and questioning the country’s social problems. He received several awards, such as the Jabuti Prize (1991) and the Banorte Prize for the work A Formação das Almas (1990), and the Casa de las Américas Prize for A Cidadania no Brasil (2001).
He died of covid-19, in Rio de Janeiro, on August 13, 2023, at the age of 83.
Focus on scientific dissemination
The database that makes up the ABC Memory Center presents the description of the documents and allows searches to be carried out on the digitized documentation. The model is the Zenith database of the Archive of the History of Science (AHC) of MAST.
In addition to the academic public, the collection serves the general public, with highlights from the collection and virtual exhibitions.
About the support
The implementation of the ABC Historical Memory Project was made possible by approval in the Support Program for National Academies Based in the State of Rio de Janeiro, launched in 2023 by the Carlos Chagas Filho Foundation for Research Support of the State of Rio de Janeiro (Faperj).
Organizing Committee
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Coordination
Patrícia Torres Bozza
Fiocruz and ABC
Diógenes de Almeida Campos
Museum of Earth Sciences, CPRM and ABC
Scientific Team
Débora Foguel
UFRJ and ABC
Ildeu de Castro Moreira
UFRJ
Maria Vargas
UFF and ABC
Paulo Cruz Terra
UFF and ABC
Rodrigo Toniol
UFRJ and ABC
Thaiane de Oliveira
UFF and ABC
MAST Partnership
Everaldo Frade
MAST
Technical Support
Elisa Oswaldo Cruz Marinho
ABC
Fernando Verissimo
ABC
Realization
Sintrópika
Design & Development