Cláudia Ninhos
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Political History — Regimes, Transitions, and Memory
Contact:
claudia.sn@sapo.pt
Biography
Cláudia Ninhos has a PhD in History, specialising in Contemporary History, from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, where she also completed her BA and MA. She is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History at NOVA FCSH, specialising in the history of Luso-German relations, National Socialism and the Holocaust.
She participated as a researcher in the projects “The Power of Science. German Science in Portugal (1933-45)“, funded by FCT, and “Portuguese Forced Labourers in the Third Reich“, funded by the EVZ Foundation and the Goethe Institut. Since July 2017, she has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Foundation.
She is an accredited trainer by the Scientific-Pedagogical Council for Continuing Education at the University of Minho and has collaborated regularly with the History Teachers’ Association in training activities. She co-edited the book A Angústia da Influência. Política, Cultura e Ciência nas relações da Alemanha com a Europa do Sul,1933-1945 [The Anguish of Influence. Politics, Culture and Science in Germany’s Relations with Southern Europe, 1933-1945] (Frankfurt am Main, Peter Lang, 2014) and the volume Nazi Germany and Southern Europe (New York, Palgrave, 2015). She is co-author of the book Salazar, Portugal e o Holocausto [Salazar, Portugal and the Holocaust] and author of the book Portugal e os Nazis [Portugal and the Naziz] (A Esfera dos Livros, 2017). Her doctoral thesis was awarded the Victor de Sá Prize for Contemporary History 2017. Her individual project, entitled “From Prejudice to Genocide: the Portuguese Press and the Holocaust“, has been approved for funding by the Foundation for Science and Technology.
Research fields
- Contemporary history
- Luso-German relations
- Holocaust
Selected publications
- Ninhos, Cláudia. Portugal e os Nazis. Lisbon: A Esfera dos Livros, 2017. [link]
- Ninhos, Cláudia, “What was known in the neutral countries about the on-going genocide of European Jews?,” in Bystanders, Rescuers or Perpetrators? The Neutral Countries and the Shoah, edited by Corry Guttstadt, Thomas Lutz, Bernd Rother and Yessica San Román, 125-138. Berlin: Metropol Verlag, 2016.
- Clara, Fernando & Cláudia Ninhos (Eds.). Nazi Germany and Southern Europe, 1933-45. Science, Culture and Politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. [link]
- Pimentel, Irene Flunser & Cláudia Ninhos. Salazar, Portugal e o Holocausto. Lisbon: Temas e Debates, 2013. [link]
Main projects
- Individual project “From Prejudice to Genocide: the Portuguese Press and the Holocaust” — Hosted by the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (CEECIND/03573/2017). 2019-2025
- Researcher in the project “Portugiesische Zwangsarbeiter im III Reich” — Coordinated by Fernando Rosas (IHC — NOVA FCSH) and funded by EVZ — Stiftung “Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft” (Germany) and the Goethe Institut Portugal.
- Researcher in the project “The Power of Science. German Science in Portugal (1933-45)” — Coordinated by por Fernando Clara (IELT — NOVA FCSH) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/HIS-HCT/111330/2009).
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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.
Tempo
(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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