Elisabetta Girotto
![Perfil estilizado de uma figura humana: uma bola sobre uma forma que faz lembrar os ombros. O desenho é branco sobre um fundo verde](https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/anonimo.jpg)
Political History – Regimes, Transitions, and Memory
Contact:
egirotto@fcsh.unl.pt
Biography
PhD at the doctoral school in history of the University of Tuscia and Marie Curie Fellow in 2009 at ICS — ULisboa; from 2010 to 2018 postdoc FCT at IHC— NOVA FCSH where she is currently researching as a junior researcher.
She is a specialist in gender and family history from a transversal and comparative perspective, in particular a researcher of fascism and the post-World War II period. Her interests include the history of political parties and movements as well as political cultures. She is an expert in mass communication applied to history and sociology. Her work concentrates on deciphering the narrative languages of art-house and amateur films; her studies are aimed at tracing caesuras, delays, but also contaminations between realities that are often apparently antithetical; the choice of this approach and of a methodology that is in some ways innovative is making it possible to highlight some of the most important nodes characterising the history of the European and transnational twentieth century.
Research fields
- Gender
- Family history
Selected publications
- Girotto, Elisabetta. “Tutti al mare! Genere, famiglia e tempo libero nell’Italia degli anni Cinquanta del Novecento,” Officina della Storia 30 (2020). [link]🔓
- Girotto, Elisabetta, “La educación popular en la Italia de los años cincuenta del siglo XX. La familia y la educación en la representación cinematográfica del Estado italiano y del Servicio de Información de los Estados Unidos (USIS),” in Formas y espacios de la educación popular en la Europa mediterránea. Siglos XIX y XX, edited by Jean-Louis Guereña and Alejandro Tiana Ferrer, 297-313. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez, 2016. [link]
- Girotto, Elisabetta. “Famiglia, politica e mass media. La rappresentazione audiovisiva nel Pci e nella Dc degli anni cinquanta,” Memoria e Ricerca 47 (2014). [link]
Main projects
- Member of the team of the project “Famiglie del Novecento. Conflitti, culture e relazioni” — Coordinated by Paul Ginsborg and Maria Casalini, and hosted by the Università degli Studi di Firenze. 2008-2009
Search
Events
julho, 2024
Tipologia do Evento:
Todos
Todos
Colloquium
Conference
Conference
Congress
Course
Cycle
Debate
Exhibition
Launch
Lecture
Meeting
Movie session
Open calls
Opening
Other
Presentation
Round table
Seminar
Showcase
Symposium
Tour
Workshop
- Event Name
seg
ter
qua
qui
sex
sab
dom
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
![Illustrative banner for the lecture “Rice: ersatz, cultural artifact, object of knowledge, unruly crop”. With Lavinia Maddaluno, from Università Ca’ Foscari , IHC Visting Scholar 2024. The poster includes a photo of Lavinia Maddaluno.](https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-07-16_Lavinia-Maddaluno_1200x500.jpg)
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.
Ver mais
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
Organizador
Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanitiescomunicacao.ihc@fcsh.unl.pt Avenida de Berna, 26C - 1069-061 Lisbon
News
Third IHC Summer School in Évora
Jul 15, 2024
The IHC Summer School will return to the University of Évora for its third edition
Lavinia Maddaluno is IHC’s 2024 Visiting Scholar
Jul 11, 2024
The historian of science will be the fourth IHC Visiting Scholar
Quintino Lopes visits Salvador, Bahia
Jul 9, 2024
Quintino Lopes visited the building that housed the former Phonetics Laboratory of the Federal University of Bahia
CONTACTS
WORKING HOURS
![](https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Logo-FCSH.png)
![](https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fct_logo.png)
![](https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/logo-UEvora2.png)