Elisabete Pereira

History of Science, Technology, and Environment
Contact:
ejsp@uevora.pt
Biography
Elisabete J. Santos Pereira holds a PhD in History and Philosophy of Science with a specialisation in Museology (2017).
Author of the book “Colecionismo Arqueológico e Redes de Conhecimento: Actores Colecções e Objectos 1850-1930” published in 2018 (Colecção Estudos de Museus), she was selected, in 2023, by the German Federal Foreign Office to participate in the international programme TheMuseumsLab 2023, developed in Berlin and Nairobi (Kenya). The European Association of History Educators (EuroClio) and the Evens Foundation distinguished her inclusive pedagogical strategy for secondary school students: “Using object biographies to reveal how our pasts are interconnected” (project ‘Sharing European Histories‘). She has published articles and chapters in national and international journals and publishers (Taylor & Francis/Routledge, UK; Hermann editions, France; Service des Musées de France, The Royal Society, UK; Techniche Universität Dresden Press, Germany; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Brazil).
She was a co-coordinator of the Dictionary Quem é Quem na Museologia Portuguesa [Who’s Who in Portuguese Museology] and is the principal researcher of the project “TRANSMAT — Transnational materialities (1850-1930): reconstituting collections and connecting histories.” (PTDC / FER-HFC / 2793/2020). She was team member of the international projects “Museum Networks: People, Itineraries And Collections” (Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Germany), “Desafíos educativos y científicos de la Segunda República española” [Educational and Scientific Challenges of the Second Spanish Republic] (Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities of Spain), and the European Researcher’s Night 2023 (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions).
Research fields
- History of science
- History of collections and scientific collectionism
- Colonial ethnographic collections
- Biographies of objects
- Museology
Selected publications
- Pereira, Elisabete J. Santos, “The antique collection of Teixeira de Aragão (1823-1903): Lisbon and Paris,” in La Belle Époque des collectionneurs d’antiques en Europe (1850-1914), directed by Dietrich Boschung, Cécile Colonna, Néguine Mathieux and François Queyrel, 135-143. Paris: Hermann / Louvre Editions, 2022. [link]
- Pereira, Elisabete, “Using object biographies to reveal how our pasts are interconnected,” in Sharing European Histories, edited by Katria Tomko, Steven Stegers, Marjolein Delvou and Hanna Zielinska, 14-29. The Hague: Euroclio / Evens Foundation, 2021. [link]🔓
- Pereira, Elisabete J. Santos, Maria Margaret Lopes & Maria de Fátima Nunes. “‘Collective wisdom’ at the National Archaeological Museum in Portugal,” Museum History Journal 12 (2019): 171-191. [link]
- Pereira, Elisabete J. Santos. Colecionismo Arqueológico e Redes de Conhecimento: Atores, Coleções e Objetos (1850-1930). Casal de Cambra: Caleidoscópio, 2018. [link]
Main projects
- Coordinator of the project “TRANSMAT — Transnational materialities (1850-1930): reconstituting collections and connecting histories” — Hosted by the IHC — University of Évora and funded by the Foundation for Science and Tecnology (PTDC /FER-HFC /2793/2020). [link]
- Researcher selected for TheMuseumsLab 2023 project – Funded by Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (German Academic Exchange Service); developed in Berlin (Germany) and Nairobi (Kenya); also included funding for a residency at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne (Germany).
- Collaborator in the project “Desafíos educativos y científicos de la Segunda República Española: internacionalización, popularización, innovación en universidades e institutos” [Educational challenges of the Spanish Second Republic] — Coordinated by Leoncio López-Ocón (Instituto de Historia — CSIC) and Álvaro Ribagorda (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and funded by the Spanish National Research Agency (PGC2018-097391-B-I00). [link]
- Researcher in the project “Sharing European Histories” — Hosted by EuroClio — European Association of History Educators and funded by Evens Foundation. [link]
- Member of the project “Museums Networks: People, Itineraries and Collections (1770-1920)” — Coordinated by Irina Podgorny (CONICET – Museo de La Plata, Universidad Nacional de La Plata) and funded bu the Humboldt Foundation (Germany). 2016- [link]
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outubro, 2025
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Detalhes do Evento
Seminar where ongoing doctoral research is discussed critically and constructively, as part of the activities of the IHC’s Platform of Advanced Studies. Seminário de Teses
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Detalhes do Evento
Seminar where ongoing doctoral research is discussed critically and constructively, as part of the activities of the IHC’s Platform of Advanced Studies.
Seminário de Teses de Doutoramento do IHC
Coordenação: Elisabete Pereira, Raquel Ribeiro e Natália Melo
Programa:
09:45-10:00 | Receção e Abertura
10:00-10:30 | Sessão 1 – Sofia Barreto Borges: “Barracas de Campanha, Tendas do Ultramar, Canadianas de fim-de-semana: micro-história(s) a partir de um objeto” | Comentários: João Paulo Gonçalves e Quintino Lopes
10:30-11:00 | Sessão 2 – Manuel Conceição: “As elites políticas covilhanenses (1910 – 1974): uma análise social” | Comentários: João Gabriel Caia e Luís Trindade
11:00-11:15 | Intervalo para café
11:15-11:45 | Sessão 3 – Maria Figueira: “Do Ethnography Museums need Ethnography? Debates sobre coleções coloniais na Europa” | Comentários: João Gabriel Caia e José Luís Assis
11:45-12:15 | Sessão 4 – Catarina Teixeira: “Das ideias aos projetos gorados para a ampliação da Escola Médico-Cirúrgica de Lisboa e do Museu de Anatomia | 1864-1890” | Comentários: Cristina Marques e Alexandra Marques
12:15-14:00 | Almoço
14:00-14:30 | Sessão 5 – Patrícia Santos Batista: “Portugal no Brasil: discursos científicos e identitários na Exposição Portuguesa do Rio de Janeiro de 1879” | Comentários: Manuela de Deus e Sara Albuquerque
14:30-15:00 | Sessão 6 – Tomás Marques: “História do Centro Comercial em Portugal (1985-2005): os casos do C.C. Amoreiras, do C.C. Colombo e do C.C. Vasco da Gama” | Comentários: Daniel Freire Santos e Ricardo Noronha
15:00-15:30 | Sessão 7 – João Barreira: “Genealogias museológicas: da erudição iluminista ao Museu Rainha Dona Leonor” | Comentários: Jacqueline Souza Silva e Natália Melo
15:30-16:00 | Sessão 8 – José Caetano: “Legislating Trust: Chemical Expertise and Legal Missteps in Early Twentieth Century Portuguese Food Regulation” | Comentários: Cristina Marques e Luís Trindade
16:00-16:30 | Encerramento e Convívio
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Tempo
(Sexta-feira) 9:45 am - 4:30 pm
Organizador
Institute of Contemporary History - NOVA FCSH and University of Évora
Notícias
Cristina Nogueira — In Memoriam
Oct 11, 2025
Note of condolence on the passing of researcher Cristina Nogueira
Quintino Lopes invited by the ERC as an expert reviewer
Oct 3, 2025
Quintino Lopes was invited to act as an expert reviewer in the ERC Consolidator Grants 2025 competition
Cláudia Ninhos receives funding to study the Holocaust in the Iberian press
Sep 25, 2025
The FCT has approved funding for the IPHAS exploratory project
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