Ansgar Schaefer
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Political History — Regimes, Transitions, and Memory
Contact:
ansgar.schaefer@gmail.com
Biography
Ansgar Schaefer is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities. At the same time, he works as a scriptwriter, producer, and director of documentary films.
In 1986, he graduated in Political Science and Germanic Studies from the University of Trier (Germany) and, in 2002, he completed a Master’s degree in Contemporary History at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities. He obtained his PhD in 2014 at the same school with a thesis on the interrelationship between History and Documentary Film.
His fields of research are the political, economic, and social relations between Nazi Germany and the Estado Novo as well as Cinema and History, especially in its aspect of the discourse of the Colonial Empire in documentary film. He is currently vice-coordinator of a research project on forced labourers in Nazi Germany of Portuguese nationality.
He is co-founder of the production company Kintop where he has been involved as producer and researcher in the production and pre-production of a dozen documentaries.
Research fields
- Political, economic, and social relations between Nazi Germany and the Estado Novo
- Forced labour
- Cinema and history
- Colonialism
Selected publications
- Schaefer, Ansgar. “Imagens de A Guerra. Interacção entre os discursos visual e verbal na série de Joaquim Furtado,” Práticas da História 1 (2015): 33-60. [link] 🔓
- Schaefer, Ansgar. Portugal e os refugiados judeus provenientes do território alemão. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2014. [link] 🔓
- Schaefer, Ansgar, “Angola. Decisão de Continuar. Um documentário histórico à espera de ser exumado,” in O Eterno Retorno: estudos em homenagem a António Reis, coordinated by Maria Inácia Rezola and Pedro Aires Oliveira. Lisbon: Campo de Comunicação, 2013.
- Schaefer, Ansgar. “Angola – A Terra Prometida. Os projectos para uma colonização israelita de Angola,” História Ano XVII Nova Série 9 (1995).
Main projects
- Researcher in the project “Portuguese inmates in Nazi Concentration Camps” — Coordinated by Fernando Rosas and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology.
- Researcher in the project “Portuguese Forced Labourers in the Third Reich” — Coordinated by Fernando Rosas and funded by EVZ – Erinnerung, Verantwortung, Zukunft (Memory, Responsibility, Future) and by the Goethe-Institut Portugal.
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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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