Alba Comino
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Biography
I am passionate about studying cultural manifestations and analysing historical processes, especially those related to human identity and memory from a gender perspective and the application of new technologies. I have a dual background in Archaeology and Musicology, focusing on Digital Humanities (DH). I believe that connecting different societies through their cultural heritage is just one of the possibilities offered by DH to promote tolerance, respect and admiration for different identities.
Research fields
- Digital humanities
- Archaeology
- Gender
- Identity
Selected publications
- Garrido, Raquel Liceras, Alba Comino & Patricia Murrieta Flores. “Mujeres en el Catálogo Monumental de España: discursos arqueológicos sobre Prehistoria y Edad del Hierro en las provincias de Ávila, Soria y Burgos,” Complutum 33 (2022): 269-288. [link] 🔓
- Mira, Ignasi Grau & Alba Comino Comino. “Mujeres en los modelos sociales y las estructuras de poder del sureste de Iberia (siglos V-IV a. n. e.): una lectura desde los espacios funerarios,” Trabajos de Prehistoria 78 (2021): 309–324. [link] 🔓
- Comino, Alba & Raquel Liceras Garrido, “El reflejo de la Mostra Internazionale de 1911 en la prensa española,” in Patrimonio Arqueológico español en Roma. “Le Mostre Internazionali di Archeologia” de 1911 y 1937 como Instrumentos de Memoria Histórica, edited by Trinidad Tortosa Rocamora, 525-539. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2019. [link]
- Comino, Alba Comino & Trinidad Tortosa Rocamora, “Del pretexto al contexto: el santuario de La Luz (Verdolay, Murcia). Nuevas reflexiones para el debate,” in El tiempo final de los santuarios ibéricos en los procesos de impacto y consolidación del mundo romano, edited by Trinidad Tortosa Rocamora e Sebastián F. Ramallo Asensio, 135-160. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2017. [link]
Main projects
- Individual project “REWIND – Rereading European Cultural Heritage in Latin American Women Writers’ Travel Literature of the early 20th century: contrasting testimonies to build inclusive historical discourses” — Hosted by the IHC and funded by the European Commission (Marie Sklowdowska Curie Actions, Individual Fellowship, Grant agreement ID 101090327). 2023-2024 [link]
- Researcher in the project “Reinventando los museos de arqueología y antropología. La visibilización de los grupos marginados por la historia. Construyendo una sociedad igualitaria” — Coordinated by Lourdes Prados (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) and funded by the State Research Agency (Spain). 2021-2024
- Researcher in the project “Goodbye reading glasses: a Machine Learning experiment on handwritten documents” — Coordinated by Raquel Liceras Garrido (Lancaster University). 2019-2020 [link]
- Researcher in the project “Transformación y continuidad en la Contestania y Bastetania ibéricas (s. III a. C. – I d. C.). La imagen y los procesos religiosos como elementos de identidad” — Coordinated by Trinidad Tortosa (CSIC) and funded by the State Research Agency (Spain, HAR2009-13141). 2010-2014
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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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