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​Join us every month for thought-provoking and educational discussions with international experts in various fields of history. Our talks feature innovative ideas and perspectives, and provide a space for exchange and exploration. Stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the world of history and connect with like-minded individuals. Watch our recorded talks on YouTube to deepen your understanding and appreciation for the past. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/confabulating/support

    Male Homosexuality in The Galician-Portuguese Cantigas de Escárnio e Maldizer

    Male Homosexuality in The Galician-Portuguese Cantigas de Escárnio e Maldizer

    Aleksandra Urbaniak

    Lecturer at the Adam Mickiewics University, Poznán

    COURSES COORDINATED
    2022/SZ - Literature and culture of Italy I (Middle Ages) 09-LKW1k-1LW-16
    2023/SL - Litarature and culture of Italy: Baroque, Classicism, Enlightenment 09-LKW4k-4LW-46
    2023/SZ - (in Polish) Literatura i kultura Włoch - średniowiecze 09-LKWŚ-1LW-SNJL-11
    2023/SZ - (in Polish) Literatura i kultura włoska - średniowiecze 09-LKWŚ-1LW-WN-11
    2023/SZ - Literatura i kultura włoska - średniowiecze 09-S1FWL01-P13314

    COURSES CONDUCTED
    2022/SZ - Literature and culture of Italy I (Middle Ages) 09-LKW1k-1LW-16: discussion seminar (group 1)
    2023/SL - Litarature and culture of Italy: Baroque, Classicism, Enlightenment 09-LKW4k-4LW-46: discussion seminar (group 1)
    2023/SZ - (in Polish) Literatura i kultura Włoch - średniowiecze 09-LKWŚ-1LW-SNJL-11: discussion seminar (group 1)
    2023/SZ - (in Polish) Literatura i kultura włoska - średniowiecze 09-LKWŚ-1LW-WN-11: discussion seminar (group 1)
    2023/SZ - Literatura i kultura włoska - średniowiecze 09-S1FWL01-P13314: discussion seminar (group 1)

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    História Global da Alimentação

    História Global da Alimentação

    À Conversa com Isabel Drumond Braga

    Professora auxiliar com agregação da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, na área de História, onde leciona desde 1990.
    Tem desenvolvido investigação e lecionado nas áreas de História Social, História de Género, História Cultural e História das Práticas do Quotidiano, em especial História da Alimentação, das épocas Moderna e Contemporânea.
    Membro de diversos projetos de investigação em Portugal, Espanha e Brasil, do qual se destaca, no presente âmbito, o projeto DIAITA: Património Alimentar da Lusofonia. Orientadora de projetos de pós-doutoramento, doutoramento e mestrado, nas áreas História da Inquisição, da História das Práticas Culturais e da História da Alimentação. Neste último âmbito tem trabalhado sobre produtos (doces, gelados, peixe e diversos produtos provenientes do continente americano); receituários (de origem leiga e conventual), literatura (provérbios e autores como Armando Ferreira), dietética e gastronomia (dietas alimentares das minorias, vegetarianismo em Portugal, gastronomia e turismo), sem esquecer a história dos menus e da sociabilidade e etiqueta à mesa, a publicidade alimentar e a economia doméstica.

    Publicações selecionadas

    BRAGA, Isabel Drumond, Das Origens do Vegetarianismo em Portugal: Amílcar de Sousa (1876-1940), o apóstolo verde, Lisboa, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal, 2018, no prelo.
    ​BRAGA, Isabel Drumond, Sabores e Segredos. Receituários Conventuais Portugueses da Época Moderna, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Annablume, 2015, 412pp. ISBN 978-989-26-1079-5. ISBN Digital 978-989-26-1080-1.
    ​BRAGA, Isabel Drumond, Os Menus em Portugal. Para uma História das Artes de servir à Mesa, Lisboa, Chaves Ferreira Publicações, 2006, 240 pp. ISBN 972-794-264-4. Versão inglesa sob o título Menus. Towards a history of the art of serving at table, Lisboa, Chaves Ferreira Publicações, 2006, 240 pp. ISBN 972-8987-07-2.
    BRAGA, Isabel Drumond, Do Primeiro Almoço à Ceia. Estudos de História da Alimentação, Sintra, Colares Editora, 2004, 160 pp. ISBN 972-782-070-0.
    BRAGA, Isabel Drumond, “Carne e Peixe: Uma Hierarquia de Consumos Alimentares”, Animais e Companhia na História de Portugal, coordenação de Isabel Drumond Braga e Paulo Drumond Braga, Lisboa, Círculo de Leitores, 2015, pp. 35-85.
    BRAGA, Isabel Drumond, “Confeiteiros na Época Moderna: Cultura Material, Produção e Conflituosidade”, Ensaios sobre o Património Alimentar Luso-Brasileiro, coordenação de Carmen Soares e Irene Coutinho de Macedo, Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2014, pp. 165-192.

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    How to make a ring jump in the manner of a locust

    How to make a ring jump in the manner of a locust

    Vanessa’s research explores the medieval understanding and appreciation of magic tricks, particularly sleight-of-hand and chemical tricks, preserved in medieval manuscript recipe collections as a form of domestic play and popular science, meaning a general rather than specialist engagement with science and scientific principles, in the Middle Ages. As both material chemical practices and interpersonal performances, magic tricks are a valuable tool for interrogating how late medieval Europeans negotiated their relationships with the physical world, deceit, and each other. Medieval magic tricks intersect with artisanal craft practices; elite dining culture and cooking practices; theatre and public performance; literature; and alchemy, science, and technology. They offer an avenue for the analysis of play and experimentation across a broad spectrum of medieval society, showing how the display and collection of chemical knowledge was integrated into the popular culture of medieval Europe.

    Medieval magic tricks had a broad audience that cannot be differentiated by social or occupational setting. Recipes for entertaining chemical tricks were present in universities and monasteries, in the home and on the stage, at the banquet and in the kitchen. The experience of these tricks, and related phenomena such as pranks, required a specific relationship between the performer and audience. Combining the theory of active disbelief pioneered by modern magicians and the presentation of deceit in medieval literary genres, Vanessa argues that this relationship was predicated on a shared understanding of possibility underpinned by a willing consent to be deceived. Finally, Vanessa addresses the practical reality of magic tricks demonstrating that the properties of substances manipulated for magic tricks, such as mercury’s reactivity, were the same as those used by specialist craftsmen and alchemists. Across art technology, alchemy, and magic tricks, the same chemical process could be understood functionally, analytically, and ludically and consumed on a spectrum from practical procedure to intellectual record.

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    After 1177: The Survival of Civilization

    After 1177: The Survival of Civilization

    Dr. Eric H. Cline is Professor of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Anthropology, the former Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the current Director of the GWU Capitol Archaeological Institute. He is a National Geographic Explorer, a Fulbright scholar, an NEH Public Scholar, a Getty Scholar, and an award-winning teacher and author. In May 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree (honoris causa) from Muhlenberg College.

    An archaeologist and ancient historian by training, Dr. Cline’s primary fields of study are biblical archaeology, the military history of the Mediterranean world from antiquity to present, and the international connections between Greece, Egypt, and the Near East during the Late Bronze Age (1700-1100 BCE). He is an experienced and active field archaeologist, with more than 30 seasons of excavation and survey to his credit since 1980 in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Cyprus, Greece, Crete, and the United States. He is perhaps best known for his work on collapse and resilience in the ancient world, specifically at the end of the second millennium BCE and the early first millennium BCE in the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean, epitomized by the best-selling 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Princeton 2014; revised edition 2021).

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    How humans used law to shape civilization

    How humans used law to shape civilization

    Fernanda Pirie uses anthropological and comparative methods to compare legal practices and texts from around the world. She has carried out ethnographic fieldwork at both ends of the Tibetan plateau and also conducted historical work on Tibetan legal texts.

    The Rule of Laws: a 4,000-year quest to order the world (Profile Books, Basic Books, 2021), her most recent book, is a global history of law. It traces the rise and fall of the world’s major legal systems and compares examples of historic law-making worldwide.

    In her earlier monograph, The Anthropology of Law (OUP, 2013), Fernanda addresses the nature of law as a social form, as well as analysing its role in societies. This approach builds on themes and debates developed in the Oxford Legalism project, a collaboration between scholars from anthropology, history, and other disciplines, which produced four edited volumes (Legalism, OUP, 4 vols).

    Fernanda’s research on Tibetan legal texts was funded by the AHRC and established a web-site containing source material (https://tibetanlaw.org/project) as well as several publications on the nature of Tibetan law and its relationship with Buddhism. She has also has worked with historians of the region in two ANR/DFG projects to develop the social history of Tibet.

    Fernanda is currently writing on themes in global and historic comparative law, while developing a further research project on historic Tibetan legal texts.

    Qualifications DPhil in Social Anthropology (Oxford) 2002, MSc in Social Anthropology (UCL) 1998, Called to the Bar 1988, BA in French and Philosophy (Oxford) 1986.

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    A Ocupação Romana do Algarve

    A Ocupação Romana do Algarve

    Formação académica:

    2009 - Doutoramento em História, especialização em Arqueologia, pela Universidade de Lisboa com a dissertação intitulada “A ocupação romana do Algarve – estudo do povoamento e economia do Algarve central e oriental no período romano”.
    2001 – Provas de aptidão científica e capacidade pedagógica com o trabalho de síntese intitulado “Cerâmica economia e comércio: A terra sigillata da Alcáçova de Santarém” e a aula sobre o tema “As termas da villa romana da Tourega”.
    1989 - Licenciatura em História pela Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

    Docência:

    Unidades curriculares do 1º ciclo que leccionou ou lecciona : Arqueologia Clássica; Arqueologia Medieval; Arqueologia da Antiguidade Tardia ; Arqueologia do Mundo Provincial romano; Arquelogia Islâmica; Introdução ao Desenho Arqueológico; Técnicas de documentação gráfica em Arqueologia; Materiais Arqueológicos 9 – Cerâmica romana; Materiais Arqueológicos 10 – Cerâmica islâmica; Trabalho de Campo e Laboratório 1 e 2 (vertente Laboratório, na Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa e no Museu Nacional de Arqueologia.
    Unidades curriculares do 2º ciclo: Seminário opcional: Sistemas Tecnológicos de Produção artefactual 4 - Cerâmica romana.
    riInvestigação
    Ocupação romana do Algarve. Estudo da economia antiga a partir dos conjuntos cerâmicos.

    Experiência profissional anterior

    desde 2009 – Professora Auxiliar. Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa
    1997-2009 – Assistente. Faculadade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa
    1992-1997 – Técnica superior de Arqueologia. Câmara Municipal de Santarém, responsável pela direcção de diversos trabalhos arqueológicos no Centro Histórico da Cidade.
    1990-1992 – Arqueóloga. Contratada para a realização de diversas intervenções arqueológicas, por parte do então Serviço Regional de Arqueologia do Sul (SRAS) do Instituto Português do Património Cultural (Évora) e Departamento de Arqueologia do IPPAR (Lisboa).

    Publicações

    Livros (autor)

    Viegas, C. (2011a) - A ocupação romana do Algarve – estudo do povoamento e economia do Algarve central e oriental no período romano. Série estudos e Memórias. Lisboa: UNIARQ. 3. Disponível: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/9775

    Viegas, C. (2006a) – A cidade romana de Balsa (Torre de Ares- Tavira): (1) A terra sigillata, Tavira: Câmara Municipal de Tavira/Instituto Português de Museus.

    Viegas, C. (2003a) – Terra sigillata da Alcáçova de Santarém – Economia, comércio e cerâmica. Trabalhos de Arqueologia. Lisboa: Instituto Português de Arqueologia. 26.

    Viegas, C., Abraços, F., Macedo, M., (1993) - Dicionário de Motivos Geométricos no Mosaico Romano, Lisboa: Liga dos Amigos de Conímbriga.

    Livros (editor)


    Artigos de divulgação

    Viegas, C. (2012c) – Um Algarve cosmopolita, in Visão História. Portugal no tempo dos romanos. Nº 17 Setembro 2012, p. 92-95.

    Pinto, I. V., Viegas, C., (1994) - Les Thermes de la Villa romaine de Tourega. In Dossiers de L'Archaeologie. (Nov.). p. 60-63.

    Catálogo de exposição

    Arruda, A. M.; Viegas, C.; Almeida, M. J. (coord.)(2002) – De Scallabis a Santarém, Catálogo da Exposição. Lisboa: Museu Nacional de Arqueologia.
    Além de textos em colaboração (ver supra), elaborou dezenas de ficha de inventário do catálogo.

    Outras publicações

    Cláudia Costa, Cidália Duarte, João Tereso, Catarina Viegas, Miguel Lago, Carolina Grilo, Jorge Raposo, Mariana Diniz, Alexandra Lima, (2014) - Discovering the Archaeologists of Portugal 2012-14, Lisboa, APA.

    Projectos de Investigação

    Desde 2012 - Participação no Projecto de investigação internacional – Ex Amphora Hispania , do ICAC .
    Até 2016 - Participação no projecto de investigação Monte Molião na Antiguidade.
    2001-2004 - Participou como investigadora no Projecto de Investigação FCT "Castro Marim e o seu território imediato na Antiguid

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