Mélanie Toulhoat
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Culture, Identities, and Power
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melanietoulhoat@fcsh.unl.pt
Biography
Mélanie Toulhoat is a historian, researcher in contemporary history of Brazil and the African Portuguese-speaking Countries (PALOP). She holds a PhD in Contemporary History from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (IHEAL-CREDA) and the University of São Paulo (2019). Her thesis on the history of the Brazilian military dictatorship won the 2020 Thesis Prize of the Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle. This work analyses various forms of graphic humour published in the independent press, and some visual and behavioural mechanisms of political and cultural resistance against censorship and repression, under the Brazilian military regime (1964-1985).
She was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory of Excellence “Histoire et Anthropologie des savoirs, croyances et techniques” (LabEx HASTEC) of the Practical School of Higher Studies (EPHE), affiliated to the Institut des Mondes Africains (IMAF) in 2020-2021, and a scientific member of Casa de Velázquez – École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques in 2021-2022. She also chairs ARBRE — Association pour la recherche sur le Brésil en Europe and is a member of the coordination of the international public history project História da Ditadura [History of the Dictatorship].
Her current research focuses on popular education and adult literacy projects developed in post-independence Guinea-Bissau by a range of national and international educators, cadres and activists.
Research fields
- Cultural history
- Contemporary history of Brazil and PALOP
- Transatlantic militant circulation
- Education and image
Selected publications
- Toulhoat, Mélanie. Rire de la dictature, Rire sous la dictature. L’humour graphique dans la presse indépendante brésilienne sous le régime militaire. Paris: Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, in press.
- Toulhoat, Mélanie. “ “Alguns desenhos guardados aí…” A censura ao humor gráfico durante o regime militar brasileiro. Um estudo de caso,” Tempo & Argumento 14 (2022): e0103. [PDF]
- Toulhoat, Mélanie. 2022. “« Lutar, Aprender, Vencer, Trabalhar »: Alphabétisation Pour Adultes, éducation Populaire Et réseaux Militants En Guinée-Bissau Nouvellement indépendante,”. Revue d’histoire Contemporaine De l’Afrique Julho (2022). [PDF]
- Toulhoat, Mélanie. 2022. “Um novo imaginário nacional? O humor gráfico publicado na imprensa independente brasileira durante a progressiva redemocratização,”. Brasiliana 9 (2020): 312-331. [PDF]
Main projects
- Individual project ““Vô aprender a ler, pra dar lição aos meus camaradas”. Pilot adult literacy experiences and international activist circulations in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, during the anti-colonial war of liberation and after Independence (1963-1979)” — Hosted by the IHC and funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (2021.03948.CEECIND). 2022-2028
- Researcher in the project “TRACS — Transatlantic Cultures” — Funded by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, the Fundação de Amparo à pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, the France-Berkeley Fund, the Institut des Amériques, and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Paris-Saclay. [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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