Marta Macedo

History of Science, Technology, and Environment
Contact:
martamacedo@fcsh.unl.pt
Biography
Marta Macedo is, since September 2022, researcher at Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA University Lisbon. She has a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Architecture (Theory and History) from the University of Coimbra (2010). Previously, she was a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (ERC project The Colour of Labour: the Racialized Lives of Migrants), she held a postdoctoral position at the CIUHCT, University of Lisbon and was visiting scholar at the University of California – Los Angeles.
Her current research project, São Tomé and the Global Atlantic: a genealogy for the Plantationocene, focuses on the relation between techno-scientific practices and imperial history in the longue durée. More specifically she examines the circulation of plantation systems (São Tomé, Brazil, Angola, Belgium Congo and Cameroon), combining approaches from history of science and technology, labor history, environmental and the history of capitalism.
Research fields
- History of science and technology
- Plantations and colonialism
- Labour history
- Environmental history
Selected publications
- Le Petitcorps, Colette, Marta Macedo & Irene Peano (Eds.). Global Plantations in the Modern World. Sovereignties, Ecologies, Afterlives. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. [link]
- Macedo, Marta. “Coffee on the move: technology, labour and race in the making of a transatlantic plantation system,” Mobilities 16 (2021): 262-272. [PDF]
- Macedo, Marta. “Standard Cocoa: Transnational Networks and Technoscientific Regimes in West African Plantations,” Technology and Culture 57 (2016): 557-585. [link]
- Macedo, Marta. Projectar e Construir a Nação. Engenheiros, Ciência e Território em Portugal no Século XIX. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2012. [link]
Main projects
- Researcher in the project “The Colour of Labour: the Racialized Lives of Migrants” — Coordinated by Cristiana Bastos (ICS — Universidade de Lisboa) and funded by the European Research Council (Advanced Grant No 695573). 2016-2022 [link]
- Researcher in the project “Visions of Lisbon — Science, technology and medicine (STM) and the making of a techno-scientific capital (1870-1940)” — Coordinated by Ana Simões (CIUHCT) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/IVC-HFC/3122/2014). [link]
- Researcher in the project “Anthropolands – Engineering the Anthropocene: Colonial Science, Technology and Medicine and the changing of the African landscape.” — Coordinated by Maria Paula Diogo (CIUHCT) and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (PTDC/IVC-HFC/6789/2014). 2016-2018 [link]
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How do the machinery of war and political violence relate to the production of power relations and subjectivity that we generally refer to as authoritarianism? Wars, Violence, and Authoritarianism How
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How do the machinery of war and political violence relate to the production of power relations and subjectivity that we generally refer to as authoritarianism?
Wars, Violence, and Authoritarianism
How do the machinery of war and political violence relate to the production of power relations and subjectivity that we generally refer to as authoritarianism? Professors Charalambos Minasidis (University of Yale) and Fernando Jiménez Herrera (Complutense University of Madrid) will share their reflections on this question, based on meticulous archival work that positions them as two of the leading experts on the Greek and Spanish dictatorships of the 20th century.
The workshop is part of the STEXEU project, coordinated by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez.
Programme:
11h-13h: From Discrimination to Genocide: Minorities as the “Enemy Within” during the Ottoman Long War, with Charalambos Minasidis (University of Yale)
16h-18h: Chekas, la violencia revolucionaria en el relato franquista sobre la guerra civil española, 1936-1977, with Fernando Jiménez Herrera (Complutense University of Madrid)
Tempo
(Terça-feira) 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Organizador
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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Round table discussion on clandestine meetings that took place in Lisbon during the Estado Novo regime and the underground currents that ran through the city dominated by the regime's dull
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Round table discussion on clandestine meetings that took place in Lisbon during the Estado Novo regime and the underground currents that ran through the city dominated by the regime’s dull character — part of the cycle Lisbon, Capital of International Intrigue.
Encontros clandestinos na capital da espionagem:
As relações luso-alemãs em Lisboa entre as décadas de 1940 e 1970
Que encontros clandestinos ocorreram em Lisboa, capital da espionagem entre a Segunda Guerra Mundial até aos tempos de Guerra Fria? Que correntes subterrâneas atravessaram a cidade dominada pelo carácter baço do regime de Salazar, em diferentes domínios?
É sobre estes temas, mais ou menos secretos, mais ou menos clandestinos ou subterrâneos, que nos propomos conversar na Biblioteca do Goethe Institut, no próximo dia 10 de Março, pelas 18h30, numa sessão conduzida por Manuela Ribeiro Sanches. Fernando Clara começará por nos falar das tempestades que assolaram Lisboa em Maio de 1945, bem como das missas que foram mandadas rezar pelas almas dos dois ditadores depostos, ao mesmo tempo que se celebrava a vitória dos Aliados. Vera San Payo de Lemos lembrará a censura do teatro de Brecht e o boom subsequente das suas peças nos palcos da capital da espionagem depois do 25 de Abril. Jürgen Bock evocará a visita à Caparica de Hubert Fichte na década de 1960, escritor a quem a partilha do mundo clandestino da homossexualidade permitiu um acesso único ao Portugal dessa época.
ENTRADA LIVRE
Esta conversa será complementada, às 21h30, na Cinemateca Portuguesa, com a exibição do mais antigo thriller alemão rodado em Lisboa, Der weiße Dämon (1932), junto com um breve documentário da altura sobre esta produção, intitulado A UFA em Lisboa, parte do ciclo de cinema Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional.
>> Consulte o programa completo do ciclo AQUI (PDF)
[Os horários das projecções podem sofrer alterações. Confirme sempre no site da Cinemateca]
O ciclo Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional resulta de uma colaboração entre a Cinemateca Portuguesa, o Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) e o projecto ExPORT (baseado no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa), com apoio da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, do Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lisbona, do Institut français du Portugal, do Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa e da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
Tempo
(Terça-feira) 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Organizador
Institut of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Goethe Institut
News
VINCULUM — An end and a new beginning
Feb 24, 2026
FCSH hosted the closing session of the VINCULUM project
In March, Lisbon becomes the Capital of International Intrigue
Feb 21, 2026
Between 2 and 31 March, at the Portuguese Cinematheque
Anita Buhin is on a research mission in Italy
Feb 20, 2026
She is now a Visiting Researcher at CAST, University of Bologna
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