Aurora Almada e Santos
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Political History — Regimes, Transitions, and Memory
Contact:
auroraalmada@yahoo.com.br
Biography
She is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History of the NOVA University Lisbon, where she has dedicated herself to studying the international dimension of Portuguese decolonisation. She is the author of several publications, including book chapters and articles in scientific journals. She has presented papers at national and international scientific meetings. As part of her research duties, she has also carried out other activities, such as editing publications, organising conferences, reviewing articles and carrying out research projects.
Research fields
- International history
- European decolonisation
Selected publications
- Santos, Aurora Almada e, “Amílcar Cabral e a Luta pela Independência de Cabo Verde na Organização das Nações Unidas,” in Por Cabral Sempre. Praia: Fundação Amílcar Cabral, 2016.
- Santos, Aurora Almada e. “The Role of the Decolonization Committee of the United Nations Organization in the Struggle against Portuguese Colonialism in Africa: 1961-1974,” The Journal of Pan African Studies 4 (2012): 248-260. [link]🔓
- Santos, Aurora Almada e. “Il Comitato delle Nazioni Unite sulla Decolonizzazione e la lotta per l’indipendenza nelle colonie portoghesi negli anni’70,” Afriche e Orienti Numero speciale II/2011 (2011): 35-52.
- Santos, Aurora Almada e. “A ONU e as resoluções da Assembleia Geral de Dezembro de 1960,” Relações Internacionais 30 (2011): 61-69. [link]🔓
Main projects
- Individual project ““It is the Duty of All”: The Organization of African Unity and the Solidarity towards the Struggle for Independence of Portuguese Colonies (1963-1975)” — Hosted by the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (CEECIND/01588/2017). 2019-2025
- Collaborator in the project “Amílcar Cabral, from Political History to Politics of Memory” — Coordinated by Rui Lopes (IHC – NOVA FCSH) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/EPH-HIS/6964/2014). 2014-2017
- Collaborator in the project ““Tell me how it was”: Public policies and child labor in Portugal and the Portuguese colonies” — Coordinated by por Pedro Goulart (ISCSP-ULisboa) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/IIM-ECO/5303/2014). 2014-2017
- Collaborator in the project to collect, translate and edit the speeches of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde at the United Nations Organisation — Funded by the Amílcar Cabral Foundation (Cape Verde). 2015-
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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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