Elisa Lopes da Silva
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Economy and Society
Contact:
elisals@fcsh.unl.pt
Biography
Elisa Lopes da Silva is a historian at the IHC. She has a Master’s degree in Contemporary History (NOVA FCSH, 2011) and a PhD in History: change and continuity in a global world (PIUDHist) (Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, 2020). She researches and publishes in the fields of social history, state history and historiography. Her doctoral thesis focused on the history of internal colonisation during the Estado Novo, in particular the relations between state powers, agriculture and developmentalism.
She participated in collaborative research in urban studies as a postdoctoral fellow at CRIA (Centre for Research in Anthropology) under the H2020 project COESO — Collaborative Engagement on Societal Issues. She has also worked in academic publishing as a member of the Editorial Board of Imprensa de História Contemporânea [IHC Press] and the journal Práticas da História. Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past.
Her current research project — “Out of Work: a critical history of unemployment in Portugal, 1890s-1970s” — looks at the relationship between state categories and policies, cultural representations and the everyday experiences of (not) working.
Research fields
- Cultural history of labour
- State history
- Internal colonisation
- Historiography
- Uses of the past
Selected publications
- Silva, Elisa Lopes da, “Precarizar o desemprego: a longa história de uma categoria,” in Pobreza e fome, uma história contemporânea. Temas, metodologias e estudos de caso, coordinated by Ana Isabel Queiroz, Bárbara Direito, Helena da Silva, and Lígia Costa Pinto, 109-117. Lisbon: Imprensa de História Contemporânea, 2022. [link]🔓
- Silva, Elisa Lopes da. “The Polemics of History: Historiographical Debates and Public Life,” Práticas da História 13 (2021): 7-28. [link]🔓
- Silva, Elisa Lopes da. “Estado, território, população: As ideias, as políticas e as técnicas de colonização interna no Estado Novo”. PhD Thesis in History, University of Lisbon, Institute for Social Sciences, 2020. [link]🔓
- Silva, Elisa Lopes da, “Recampesinar no Estado Novo: Propriedade, Estado e os seus Sujeitos,” in O espectro da pobreza. História, cultura e política em Portugal no século XX, organised by Frederico Ágoas and José Neves, 105-124. Lisbon: Mundos Sociais, 2016. [link]
Main projects
- Individual project “Out of Work: a critical history of unemployment in Portugal, 1890s-1970s” — Hosted by the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2022.00905.CEECIND). 2023-2029
- Postoctoral fellow at the project “COESO — Collaborative Engagement on Societal Issues” — Coordinated in Portugal by Frédéric Vidal (CRIA ISCTE) and funded by the European Commission [Grant Agreement No.101006325]. 2021-2023 [link]
- Researcher in the project “The Making of State Power in Portugal: Institutionalization Processes from 1890 to 1986” — Coordenado por José Neves (IHC — NOVA FCSH) e financiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (PTDC/HIS-HIS/104166/2008). 2010-2013 [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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