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COURSES 2021/22 Fall term courses • Western European Empires – from colonial past to postcolonial world Jorge Pedreira, Pedro Aires Oliveira, José Neves, Pedro Cardim, Alexandra Pelúcia • The of Politics and the Politics of History José Neves • Filming the Past – the case of Portuguese Documentary Film Catarina Alves Costa • History in the Media: contesting, commemorating, resignificating Carla Baptista, Paulo J. Fernandes and Pedro A. Oliveira • Oral History: theories and methods Paula Godinho e Maria Alice Samara • Digital and Spatial Humanities for Daniel Ribeiro Alves • The Essentials of Archival Maria de Lurdes Rosa and Maria João da Câmara

2021/22 Spring term courses • Museums as spaces of memory, identity and Alexandra Curvelo

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

Western European Empires – from colonial past to postcolonial world Jorge Pedreira, Pedro Aires Oliveira, José Neves, Pedro Cardim, Alexandra Pelúcia

Fall Term, AY 2021-2022 Mandatory Credit value: 8 ECTS Module: of inclusion and exclusion; Entanglements between national, regional, and global frameworks of history Consultation: during office hours or by appointment at [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected]

BRIEF INTRODUCTION: This course is devoted to the history of the Western European colonial empires, with a particular focus in the case of and its empire, combining global and national perspectives. It covers the period between the early sixteenth century and the late twentieth century. The course will provide students with key insights on the historical development of the Western European colonial empires and will highlight the social construction of their memories. The uses of the colonial past in building and rebuilding (national) identities and for the legitimation and de-legitimation of modern polities will be explored. Particular emphasis will be placed on how that memory was contested and negotiated, and to what extent the legacies of empire are still present in the social, cultural and institutional fabric of both the former imperial powers and the post-colonial states. Part 1 provides an overview of the Western European empires, from the early modern period to the twentieth century. Part 2 focuses on the Portuguese case and surveys topics such as and its place in the Portuguese empire, and resistance against the Portuguese colonial rule. Part 3 is devoted to the nineteenth and twentieth century , as well as to the end of the colonial regime. Part 4 is about the presence of the colonial past in late twentieth century Portugal.

ASSESSMENT: The course emphasizes student participation and therefore a part of the final grade grows from student participation in class discussions (20%). Students will facilitate one seminar discussion of a PDF assigned article/book chapter reading by posing initial question(s) for discussion (20%). Students will hand in a 4,000-5,000 word-final essay focused on one or more of the main topics of the course contents (60%).

The History of Politics and the Politics of History José Neves

Fall Term, AY 2021-2022 Elective Credit value: 8 ECTS Module: History and the institutionalization of memory; Visual representations and medialization of history Consultation: during office hours or by appointment at [email protected]

BRIEF INTRODUCTION: The course explores transnational interactions between Politics and History throughout the last two centuries. It analyses how historical research and the writing of History may have contributed to the formation of modern political cultures and , as well as investigates ways through which political events and political views may have fostered methodological and theoretical transformations within the discipline of History itself. Encompassing developments as diverse as the unification of and the emergence of Postcolonial Theory, the course will specifically focus on the emergence of modern conceptions of space and time and on the making of historical and political subjects. How did economic participate in the consolidation and renewal of National History, from the unification of Germany to the rise of new nations in Asia and Africa? How the emergence of the labour movement and Marxist discussions on Russia and Latin America may resonate to today’s debates on Transnational History? How did the term totalitarianism gain a conceptual life of his own throughout the 20th century, progressing from Italian antifascist discourse to American Cold War sovietology? Or how the so-called “pensée 68” invests recent scholarship on , as well as ethical debates on the memory of ? And, to give one final example: how the development of a Postcolonial critique of the discipline of History is linked to the spread of Maoism from China to India throughout the second half of the 20th century? And how this Postcolonial critique may lead historians to be less dismissive towards non-scientific ways of making sense of, and being sensitive to, history and time?

ASSESSMENT:

The course emphasizes student participation and therefore a part of the final grade grows from student participation in class discussions (10%). Students will facilitate one seminar discussion of a PDF assigned article/book chapter reading by posing initial question(s) for discussion (20%). Students will hand in a 4,000-5,000 word-final essay focused on one or more of the main topics of the course contents (70%).

Filming the Past – the case of Portuguese Documentary Film Catarina Alves Costa Fall Term, AY 2021-2022

Credit value: 8 ECTS Elective Module: Visual representations and medialization of history Prerequisites: M.A. level course Credit value: 8 ECTS Consultation: during office hours or by appointment at [email protected]

BRIEF INTRODUCTION: The course will focus on the way the past and memories in the present have been represented in documentary film. We will use the case of Portuguese contemporary history in its relation with both the colonial past and international circulation of people, migrants or refugees. This course will profit from Portugal´s geographical, socio-political and historical positioning: as a historically connected and connecting country to other spaces, dialoguing with emerging epistemologies, such as those of Brazil, and articulating theoretical debates of both central and more recently developed anthropologies. Documentary film in its ideas of evidence, ethics and politics highlights historical discourses and uses of the past. We will deconstruct critically the rhetoric and forms of representation, as well as different levels of discourse about those historically constructed moments, focusing on the impact those representations have on individuals and communities. The films and the concomitant discussions focus on the cinematically constructed ambiguities of the world we live and lived in. Memory, the reconstruction of the past and the ideological rhetoric’s will relate with specific events, social groups and places. The sessions will be organized together with Cinemateca, The Portuguese Film (ANIM).

ASSESSMENT: Written reports from viewing films or visiting archives (3) 10% each One Final Essay Assignment: students will hand in a 4,500-5,000 word-final essay focused on one of the main topics of the course contents – 70%

History in the Media: contesting, commemorating, resignificating

Carla Baptista, Paulo J. Fernandes and Pedro A. Oliveira Fall Term, AY 2021-2022 M.A. level course Credit value: 8 ECTS Elective Module: Visual representations and medialization of history Prerequisites: Consultation: during office hours or by appointment at [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected].

BRIEF INTRODUCTION: This course focus is to understand the key roles of media as interfaces between the history produced in academic circles and the general public, thus making the experience of the past inherently dynamic and prone to reconstructions or revisions. The course will explore the issue of how the modern media (print, digital/online or audiovisual) can function as space in which conflicting visions and claims about the past are advanced, either by institutions, organized groups or individuals. The course will allow students to situate the boom of “popular history” since the 1990s (with new protagonists disputing the ‘authoritative role’ previously held by historians) and identify some of the dominant themes in several European countries (from imperial nostalgia to forms of historical “negationism”, or the rise of post-colonial or “identity” agendas). Through a series of case-studies, students are expected to gain a better understanding of the peculiar dynamics of historical controversies, either in terms of the argumentation techniques or legitimation strategies employed, as well as acquire competencies in assessing the reliability of historical arguments.

ASSESSMENT: • Seminar paper: 60%; • In class participation (discussion of articles or book chapters: 20%; • Examination of sources: 20%

Museums as spaces of memory, identity and activism Alexandra Curvelo Spring Term, AY 2021-2022 M.A. level course Credit value: 8 ECTS Elective Module: Visual representations and medialization of history Prerequisites: Consultation: during office hours or by appointment at [email protected]

BRIEF INTRODUCTION: The course will focus on the role of museums as knowledge-based institutions that create time- framed narratives and that are associated with the construction of national identities and collective memories. It will highlight the historical discourses of the museum in terms of both narratives of display and space/architecture projects. The analysis will also include the use of resources such as museum writing and technologies of storytelling (e.g. films) as mechanisms for the creation of engaging and meaningful interpretive settings. The course will further explore the way people relate to heritage, particularly movable heritage, and how objects are displayed as historical documents, functioning both as material and as semiotic texts. Through the reading and discussion of articles and book chapters, as well as the analysis of case studies, students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the historical background of the museum, its main challenges in the present and how it is positioning into the future, the theoretical framework of the field of Museum Studies and the historical agencies of the institution.

ASSESSMENT: Class Participation: because this course is organized as a seminar and meets just once a week, it is particularly important that students be in attendance and be prepared to participate. This seminar emphasizes student participation and therefore a part of the final grade grows from student participation in class discussion. (15%) Required Readings and Discussion Participation Assignments: course readings are required and students are expected to prepare written seminar discussion participation notes. (20%) Discussion Facilitation: students will facilitate one seminar discussion of a PDF assigned article/book chapter reading made available by the Professor by providing a 15-minute overview of the core ideas, concepts, and theories of the author(s) and posing initial question(s) for discussion. (20%) Final Monograph Essay Assignment: students will hand in a 4,500-5,000 word-final essay focused on one of the main topics of the course contents. (45%)

Oral History: theories and methods Paula Godinho e Maria Alice Samara Fall Term, AY 2021-2022 M.A. level course Credit value: 2 ECTS Elective Practical Experience and Skills elective Module: Prerequisites: Consultation: during office hours or by appointment at [email protected] or [email protected]

BRIEF INTRODUCTION: Analyzing the differences between official historiographical narratives and non-hegemonic memories (using oral history and practices), the course debates the histories of inclusion and exclusion, and also the “strong” and “weak” memories (Traverso). In doing so, the courses analyses the role and importance of the complexity of different narratives and memories in the process of construction of public history. Discussing cases studies involving the memories of different communities, the course will foster the debate between the different scales of analyses, acknowledging the entanglement between the local, regional, national and global.

ASSESSMENT: 1. Student participation: 35% 2. Oral presentation 30% 3. Essay 35% 1. Student participation (including timeliness): students are expected to attend and to actively participate in the course sessions. The students must arrive prepared to discuss the session’s mandatory readings. 2. Oral presentation: Students are required to conduct an oral interview (Practice Interview) with a colleague (peer interviews) outside of class. The interview should be, at least, 10 minutes. In the oral presentation, the student must critically evaluate his/hers experience (based on the strengths and weakness). Students should meet time constraints and it is strongly encouraged to stimulate class discussion. 3. Essay: Students are required to write a final essay (2000 words) engaging in the theoretical debates on the course’s subject. Students are expected to make a critical reflection on the significance of memory in the dynamics of public history.

Digital and Spatial Humanities for Historians Daniel Ribeiro Alves

Fall/Winter/Spring Term, AY 2021-2022 M.A. level course Credit value: 2 ECTS Elective Practical Experience and Skills Prerequisites: n/a Consultation: after classes or by appointment at [email protected]

BRIEF INTRODUCTION: In this course students will be introduced to the recent debates about Digital Humanities and on the specific field of Spatial Humanities. The goal is to make them aware of the achievements and difficulties of implementing a digital and spatial analysis of historical data as a way to solve specific historical questions. They will review and discuss several digital tools and methodologies for historical spatial analysis and apply those concepts and practical lesson in the development of their own research project.

ASSESSMENT: The final grade is based on: • in-class participation and exercises [40%]; • one final work to apply the spatial analysis methodologies to historical sources and problems, done in a computer environment [60%];

In-class participation will be assessed by the student’s interventions in the debates on theoretical classes, comments on papers or methodologies presented, by performing specific exercises related to the content of the class and by their participation in collaborative tasks during practical exercises. The final work will correspond to the application of the several methodologies explained, using historical sources to develop several analysis and visualizations. In the end the student must produce a GIS or Web-GIS visualization using the specific software presented in class. The topic of these analysis and visualizations can be choose by the students with the approval of the instructor.

The Essentials of Archival Research

Maria de Lurdes Rosa and Maria João da Câmara Fall Term, AY 2021-2022 M.A. level course Credit value: 2 ECTS Elective Practical Experience and Skills elective Module: Prerequisites: Consultation: during office hours or by appointment at [email protected] or [email protected]

BRIEF INTRODUCTION: This course aims to introduce participants to the essentials of archival research, namely in regards to: basic concepts behind archives; the questioning of archives lead by the social sciences; and archival literacy and -seeking behavior. Sessions will have a lecture format but students’ participation is strongly encouraged. Participants are expected to acquire an in-depth knowledge of the history and pitfalls of archival research methods, in order to better apply them.

ASSESSMENT: The UC will be conducted as a classic seminar for Masters students. The introductory class will be presented by the two lecturers and one of them will always ensure the first part of each of the remaining sessions, also acting as moderator in the proposed debates. This will imply assiduous attendance of the classes by students as well as their active participation (20%). The debates will be based on questions posed at the end of each session, and it is advisable to read the proposed articles (sent via e-mail) in advance. Students are also expected to conduct online surveys presenting the results to the group (20%). Finally, students are expected to submit a research paper ( 60%). Nova FCSH Professors Profiles

Alexandra Curvelo is an Art . Her PhD thesis, «Golden Clouds and Inhabited Landscapes. Namban Art and its circulation between Asia and America: Japan, China and New Spain c.1550 - c.1700», was obtained in 2008. Her research area focuses mainly on the Portuguese presence in Asia and its artistic manifestations, with special emphasis on Japan (16th and 17th centuries). Associate Professor in the Art History Department at FCSH-UNL, she coordinates the MA in Museology there. Between 2012 and 2015 she was PI in the project Interactions between Rivals: the Christian Mission and the Buddhist Sects in Japan during the Portuguese presence (c.1549-c.1647). Author of Nanban Folding Screens Masterpieces. Japan-Portugal XVIIth Century. In 2018 she was appointed Advisor of Nanban Culture by the Mayor of Amakusa Island. Link: https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/faculdade/docentes/acurvelo/

Alexandra Pelúcia holds a PhD in History of the Discoveries and Portuguese Expansion (2007), by NOVA FCSH, and is a full member of CHAM. She is an Associate Professor in the same institution, teaching several curricular units in the areas of History of Portuguese Expansion and History of Asia. She has also international teaching experience at the University Pablo de Olavide (Spain) and at the National University of Colombia. She is the scientific coordinator of the "E-cyclopedia of Portuguese Expansion", created and developed by CHAM. Her research interests are the Portuguese Expansion in Asia and the dynamics of social and political behavior of the nobiliarchic elites. She was the PI of the FCT project «In the King's Privacy: Interpersonal Relations and Dynamics of Factions Around Manuel I», (EXPL/EPH- HIS/1720/2013). She has published the books Martim Afonso de Sousa and his Lineage: Trajectories of an Elite in the Reigns of D. João III and D. Sebastião (2009), Corsairs and Pirates. Portuguese Adventurers in the Seas of Asia (2010) and Afonso de Albuquerque. Court, Crusade and Empire (2016), all released in Portuguese language.

Link: https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/faculdade/docentes/app/

Catarina Alves Costa is a filmmaker and a visual anthropologist. She directs films since 1992, won various international prizes and published different works on documentary and ethnographic films. She is currently an Assistant Professor in Visual Culture at the Department of Anthropology Nova University in Lisbon and a researcher at CRIA. Worked at the Ethnographic Museum in Lisbon with film archives. Collaborates with different post- graduation studies abroad: Barcelona, Spain, São Paulo University, Brazil and Mexico City. Recently she was the scientific coordinator for a collection at Portuguese cinematheque around African ethnographic films directed by ethnologist Margot Dias in the 1950’s. Her last film Journey to the Makonde (2019) won the Best Documentary prize at Ethnographic Film Festival in Recife, Brasil.

Links: https://www.cria.org.pt/en https://vimeo.com/catarinaalvescosta

Carla Baptista is an Associated Professor at the Department of Media Studies at NOVA FCSH and an integrated member of ICNOVA. Among her publications are books like Portugal no Olhar de Angola (2002), Jornalistas, do Ofício à Profissão (co-authored with Fernando Correia , 2007); Memórias Vivas do Jornalismo (co-authored with Fernando Correia, 2009); Politics in Portuguese Newspapers (2011); América, the Beautiful: Reports by Portuguese writers (Tinta da China, 2016). She collaborates with several publications and FCT research projects and has experience as a freelance journalist and screenwriter for cinema. https://www.icnova.fcsh.unl.pt/carla-baptista/

Ciência ID: https://www.cienciavitae.pt//FF1B-13F5-CE58

Daniel Alves is Assistant Professor in the Department of History and researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), both at NOVA FCSH. He holds a Master's in History of the 19th Century and a PhD in Contemporary Economic and . His areas of interest are Economic and Social History, Urban History, History of Revolutions and Digital Humanities. He has published books as well as articles in national and international scientific journals, especially in Economic and Social History and Digital Humanities (ex: Análise Social, Cities, Historical Methods, History of Retailing and Consumption, Journal of Interdisciplinary History or Social Science History). He is editor of IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities, published by the Edinburgh University Press. He collaborates frequently in research projects that use databases and geographic information systems in historical research and public history. He coordinates the IHC's Digital Humanities Lab at NOVA FCSH (https://dhlab.fcsh.unl.pt/).

Link: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/?s=daniel+alves

Jorge Miguel Pedreira is Associate Professor in the Department of History of NOVA-FCSH. He graduated in History (1981) and has a Ph.D.in degree in (1996), with the thesis on the businessmen of Lisbon in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was a visiting professor at Brown University (in Providence, ) and at the University of São Paulo and invited scholar at de John Carter Brown Library (2018). He was also the chairman of an e-learning start-up launched by one of the major Portuguese publishing companies (2011-2016). Among his research interests are the study of Portuguese merchant elites and the overseas empire in early-modern and contemporary times (17th-19th centuries). He is the author several books, including D. João VI (2008), and articles in international peer-review journals. Link: https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/faculdade/docentes/jmmp/

José Neves is an Assistant Professor at the History Department of NOVA-FCSH and researcher at Institute of Contemporary History. Currently his main research areas are Cultural and Intellectual History, as well as Theory of History and . He has published several articles in academic journals (Nationalities Papers, Twentieth-Century Communism, Manguinhos, among others). He is the author of “Comunismo e Nacionalismo em Portugal – Política, Cultura e História no Século XX” (Lisbon, Tinta-da-china, 2008 [2010]). He was the founder and director of the journal "Práticas da História - Journal on Theory and Uses of the Past" from 2015 to 2019 and he remains an active member of its editorial board. He has supervised various post-doc, Master and PhD students. He was selected by King’s College London to be that year’s Camões Visiting Scholar in 2011, and in 2018 he received a British Academy Visiting Fellowship and was a visiting researcher at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Link: https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/faculdade/docentes/jneves/

Maria Alice Samara holds a PhD in Institutional and from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at the NOVA University of Lisbon, and is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History. Her research interests include the history of the First Republic, the resistance to the Estado Novo and oral history - namely in a project With the Aljube Museum (interviews with resistants to the Portuguese Dictatorship). Among her publications are works such as Viver e Resistir no Tempo de Salazar: Histórias de Vida Contadas na 1.ª Pessoa (2013, with Raquel P. Henriques), Os Cartazes na Primeira República (2010, with Tiago Baptista) e Verdes e Vermelhos. Portugal e a Guerra no Ano de Sidónio Pais (2002). She took part in several research projects and is part of the team that produced the research for the setting up of the National Resistance Museum in Peniche. Link: https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/maria-alice-samara/

Maria de Lurdes Rosa is an historian, full researcher at the Institute for Medieval Studies and assistant professor of the History Department, both at NOVA FCSH. She holds a PhD in Medieval History from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) / NOVA FCSH and has vast experience in teaching and research. Coordinator and author of several books in medieval history, archival studies, and family archives. Her career includes fellowships and teaching in the School of Historical Studies – Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (2015) and sojourns as visiting professor at the EHESS- Paris (2001), and the École Nationale des Chartes, Paris (2018). She is currenly the PI of the ERC project Vinculum. Links: https://www.vinculum.fcsh.unl.pt/team/maria-de-lurdes-rosa/ https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/faculdade/docentes/mlrosa/

Paulo Jorge Fernandes is an Assistant Professor in the History Department of NOVA FCSH, a full member of IHC and coordinator of the RG History, Territory and Environment. PhD in Institutional History and Contemporary Politics (2007), he is the author of several monographs and articles and contributions in national and international publications which focus themes in the fields of Political History (State, Elites, Political Parties, Elections, Parliament, Press, Biography and Prosopography) and Colonial History in the “long 19th century”. More recently, he has devoted himself to the study of the History of Humor and Political Satire in the Press, as well as the political uses of Caricature and Cartoon. Link: https://www.fcsh.unl.pt/faculdade/docentes/pfernandes/ UNIFI teaching offer in HIPS COURSES III-IV semesters (fall-winter term 2021-22): 30 ECTS HISTORICAL CULTURES AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY (core course, 8 ECTS) - Historical culture and Identity-building – part 1 - Collective identities in Modern and Contemporary Age – part 2 HISTORY AND INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF MEMORY (4 ECTS) mandatory/elective course - Uses of the past and cultural heritage: Medieval History and Italian Renaissance - History and identity in Italian Opera of 19th century: from national to transnational perspective - A tormented transition and modernization between history and memory: Italy 1955-1995 - Contemporary European : East/West VISUAL REPRESENTATION AND MEDIALIZATION OF HISTORY (4 ECTS) mandatory/elective course - Public history between past and present. Ancient Rome through the web and Women representation in transnational cinema - Intangible Cultural heritage and sustainable tourism - Representing the world. Illustrated periodicals and novels in the 19th and 20th centuries - Between art and history. Exhibitions in Florence in the 20th century

HISTORIES OF INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION (4 ECTS) mandatory/elective course - Emotional strategies of labelling and stereotyping across history - in Europe: representations and visual stereotypes (19th-21st centuries) - Human rights from the French Revolution to the present day: The Catholic perspective - Gender and citizenship

COURSE DESCRIPTIONS HISTORICAL CULTURES AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY

Part I: The transformation of historical culture in Western world: from Eurocentric approaches to Global and entangled history Rolando Minuti; Marcello Verga

Part II: Collective identities in Contemporary Europe Valeria Galimi; Stefano Bottoni

Part I: outline of the varieties of historical theories, narratives, representations in Western culture from the 16th century to present time, remarking continuities-discontinuities and showing connections with general theoretical frameworks, political and religious ideas. A special attention will be drawn to the public uses of history in various contexts.

Part II: the transformation of the Eurocentric , its growth and decline during the 20th century, and the various roots, aims and topics of contemporary World and Global historiography, focusing of the transcultural and transnational entanglement between Europe and the non-European world.

…AND MUCH MORE… Italian language for beginners at Unifi Linguistic Center Guided tours

Fenzi Palace: headquarter of Sagas Department University of Florence real estate: Villa La Quiete Humanistic Library of the University of Florence Medicea-Laurenziana Library, Florence Prehistoric Museum, Florence Uffizi Gallery - Bargello Museum, Florence Exhibitions to celebrate the 7th centenary of Dante Alighieri’s death (Fall 2021) Theatrical sites in Florence; The Pergola Theatre Overseas Agronomic Institute, Florence National Central Library Florence Bardini Museum, Florence Institut français, Florence Archaeological Museum, Florence 20th Century Museum (Museo Novecento), Florence Pecci Center for Contemporary Art, Prato Gabinetto scientifico-letterario G.P. Vieusseux, Florence

UNIFI/SAGAS STAFF AND HIPS

Consortium Board member: Francesca Tacchi associate professor in Contemporary History [email protected]

Curriculum Development & QA Committee member: Stefano Bottoni tenure-track assistant professor in History of Eastern Europe [email protected]

Joint Admissions & Examination Committee member: Valeria Galimi tenure-track assistant professor in Contemporary History [email protected]

Reviewers of students’ :

Rolando Minuti full professor in Modern History [email protected]

Giovanni Tarantino tenure-track Assistant professor in Modern history [email protected]

Office for International Relationships: Dario Abbate [email protected]