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Práticas da História No. 4
Mar 7, 2018 | 2017, Editions, Práticas da História
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Práticas da História – Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past
- 2017
- Issue 4
- ISSN: 2183-590X
Editorial Note:
After a special issue devoted to the theme of “The Archive and the Subaltern”, the present volume of Práticas da História contains original articles covering a broad range of subjects. They share, however, a commitment to widening the debate about the relations between history and social sciences, in dialogue with other disciplines, such as philosophy.
The articles’ section opens with a paper by Joana Duarte Bernardes about the “narrativity” of the historiographical discourse, through an engagement with the work of French philosopher Paul Ricoeur and, in particular, with his proposal of a system of “triple mimesis”. Next, Francisco Bethencourt reflects on the career and epistemological contributions of Norbert Elias, analysing his role in launching new subjects of historical research. The section concludes with a paper by the anthropologist João Leal about the work of philosopher and essayist Agostinho da Silva. By considering Silva’s interpretation of the feasts of the Holy Ghost, this paper discusses the role of medievalism and folk culture in the thematization of a Portuguese national identity.
Besides these articles, the issue includes two essays and a testimony. The first essay, by Valentin Grobner, explores the conceptualization of the Middle Ages in the discourses about European collective identities, between the late-19th century and the first decades of the 20th century, leaving the readers with some clues about the uses of the medieval past in recent years. The second essay, by Jorge Ramos do Ó, engages with a wide range of intellectual traditions in order to present a critical reflection on the links between research and teaching in the current academic environment, highlighting the importance of redefining these relations. Following our journal’s commitment to publishing testimonial texts about the history of historiography in Portugal, this issue also includes a text by Diogo Ramada Curto on the dialogue between history and social sciences. Focusing on the case of sociology, this testimony addresses the efforts to create a tradition of research in historical sociology in Portugal, revolving around the figure of Vitorino Magalhães Godinho.
Additionally, the fourth issue of Práticas da História features an interview, conducted by Rui Lopes, with historian Odd Arne Westad, currently the S.T. Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University. The conversation, which took place shortly after the launch of his most recent book The Cold War: A World History (2017), delves into topics like the relations between past and present in historical writing or the challenges of writing for a wider audience. This issue also marks the debut of a new section, “Forum”, which seeks to encourage continuing debates among contributors and readers. In this instance, we publish a response by David Matthews, author of Medievalism: A Critical History, to Richard Utz’s review of his work, featured in the previous issue of our journal. Finally, the issue includes Riccardo Facchini’s review of Medievalism, Politics and Mass-Media. Appropriating the Middle Ages in the Twenty-First Century (by Andrew B. R. Elliott) and Fernando Dores Costa’s review of Utopias – Ensaios sobre Política, História e Religião (by de Michael Löwy).
José Ferreira (ICS — University of Lisbon), José Neves (IHC — NOVA FSCH), and Pedro Martins (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
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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.
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(Terça-feira) 10:30 am - 12:30 pm
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