Inês Gomes
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History of Science, Technology, and Environment
Contact:
igomes@fcsh.unl.pt
Biography
Inês Gomes has a degree in Biology, a Master in Georesources and a PhD in History and Philosophy of Sciences. During her PhD, she crossed methodological approaches in the history of science, history of collections, and heritage studies. Subsequently, she broadened her research interests to Animal History and Urban History of Sciences, as well as Environmental and Rural History, collaborating with the Institute of Contemporary History and as a researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra and at the Interuniversity Centre for the History of Sciences and Technology. Recently, she has been interested in the relations between science and governance, in particular regarding the management of natural resources.
Research fields
- History of science
- Environmental history
- Material culture
Selected publications
- Gomes, Inês, “Allies or Enemies? Dogs in the Streets of Lisbon in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century,” in Science, Technology and Medicine in the Making of Lisbon (1840–1940), edited by Ana Simões and Maria Paula Diogo, 323–343. Leiden: Brill, 2022. [link]
- Gomes, Inês, Ana Isabel Queiroz & Daniel Alves. “Iberians against locusts: fighting cross-border bio-invaders (1898-1947),” Historia Agraria 78 (2019): 127-159. [PDF]
- Gomes, Inês. “The natural history collection at the Lisbon Military College: tracing the history of a teaching collection,” Journal of the History of Collections 29 (2017): 409–422. [link]
Main projects
- Researcher in the project “Burning landscapes: A political and environmental history of the large wildfires in Portugal (1950-2020)” — Coordinated by Miguel Carmo and Ana Isabel Queiroz (IHC — NOVA FCSH) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology. [PTDC/HAR-HIS/4425/2021] 2022-
- Researcher in the project “ReSEED – Rescuing seed’s heritage: engaging in a new framework of agriculture and innovation since the 18th century” — Coordinated by Dulce Freire (CEIS20 — University of+ Coimbra) and funded by the European Research Council (grant agreement n°760090). [link]
- Researcher in the project “Visions of Lisbon — Science, technology and medicine (STM) and the making of a techno-scientific capital (1870-1940)” — Coordinated by Ana Simões (CIUHCT) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/IVC-HFC/3122/2014). [link]
- Research fellow of the project “Introductions, invasions and control measures of plant pests in Southern Europe. An Interdisciplinary comparative approach from the 19th century onwards” — Coordinated by Ana Isabel Queiroz (IHC – NOVA FCSH) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (IF/00222/2013/CP1166/CT001). [link]
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Lecture with IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar Lavinia Maddaluno, on the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy.
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Detalhes do Evento
Lecture with IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar Lavinia Maddaluno, on the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy.
Rice: ersatz, cultural artifact, object of knowledge, unruly crop
A dietary mainstay in non-European societies and a cornerstone of dishes like Northern Italian risotto, rice has diverse culinary significance. However, the timing of its introduction to Northern Italy remains unclear. Examining this event offers insights into the process of integrating new crops into both diet and cultural imagination. This talk is about the socio-economic, cultural, scientific, technological, and medical responses to the expansion of rice cultivation in northern Italy between the sixteenth and the eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries. Bringing together the history of knowledge and environmental history, in this talk I will reflect on how rice was appropriated by several actors, and on how these appropriations were intertwined with perceptions and constructions of the landscape and material environment. By interlacing narratives of rice cultivation and of the landscapes rice forms, alongside discussions of infrastructural development and knowledge systems, I will also delineate the progression of interactions between humans and their environments, as well as the evolution of water management practices, scientific advancements, medical understandings, and political-economic ideologies across different historical periods. Additionally, the talk will highlight how resources were conceptualized in the early modern period, reconnecting to contemporary debates on the Anthropocene and on the agency of non-humans.
About IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar:
Lavinia Maddaluno is Assistant Professor in early modern history at the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari, Venice, working on David Gentilcore’s ERC project The Water Cultures of Italy 1500-1900. She is a historian of science interested in exploring the nexus between humans, nature and economy in early modern Europe. Lavinia has just completed her first monograph Science and political Economy in Enlightenment Milan (1760-1805), forthcoming with the Voltaire Foundation in autumn 2024. She is currently editing a book on rice in the Mediterranean with Rachele Scuro and a special issue on Water Knowledge with Giacomo Savani and Davide Martino. Lavinia has held multiple fellowships since the end of her PhD (Cambridge UK, 2018), from a Rome Fellowship at the British School at Rome, to a Max Weber Fellowship at the EUI and a joint Warburg/I Tatti Fellowship in the History of Science. More recently, she has been Fellow at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and the Fondazione Einaudi, working on a new project on rice-related knowledge networks between France and Italy in the Enlightenment.
Attendance is free.
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(Terça-feira) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
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Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanitiescomunicacao.ihc@fcsh.unl.pt Avenida de Berna, 26C - 1069-061 Lisbon
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