Curriculum Vitae
Elsa Raquel Fernandes Cardoso
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Elsa Raquel Fernandes Cardoso
Citation names
- Fernandes Cardoso, Elsa
- Cardoso, Elsa
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 8C10-9172-8023
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3319-3745
- Google Scholar ID
- https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jtGYYzwAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
- Researcher Id
- ABH-6503-2020
- Scopus Author Id
- 57204054099
Email addresses
- elsa.cardoso@csic.es (Professional)
Addresses
- C/ Albasanz 26-28, Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, CSIC, Despacho 1D28 (Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas), 28037 , Madrid, Madrid , Spain (Professional)
Websites
- https://lisboa.academia.edu/ElsaCardoso (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - History and Archaeology - History
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | |
| Arab | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | |
| French | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| Italian | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | Elementary (A2) | |
| Turkish | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2015/10/01 - 2020/07/15
Concluded
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História (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"The door of the caliph in the Umayyad al-Andalus: from the conceptualization to the articulation of ceremonial (10th – 11th
centuries)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Approved with Distinction and Honours |
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2019/10 - 2019/11
Concluded
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Webinar The Material Culture of the Caliphate (Postgraduate Certificate)
Bard Graduate Center, United States
Universität Hamburg, Germany |
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2016/07 - 2016/07
Concluded
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Intensive Summer Course Al-Andalus: Problems and Perspectives (Postgraduate Certificate)
Casa Árabe e Instituto Internacional de Estudios Árabes y del Mundo Musulmán, Spain
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain |
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2012/09/01 - 2015/05/04
Concluded
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História do Mediterrâneo Islâmico e Medieval (Mestrado)
Major in Sem especialização
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Diplomacy and oriental influence in the court of Cordoba (9th-10th centuries) " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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19 out of 20 |
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2009/09/01 - 2012/07
Concluded
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Estudos Asiáticos (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"N/A" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 out 20 |
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2010/08/01 - 2010/08/31
Concluded
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Arabic Intensive Summer Course (Postgraduate Certificate)
Institut Bourguiba des Langues Vivantes, Université Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 - Current | Researcher (Research) | Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Spain |
| Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain | ||
| 2022/04/01 - 2024/03/31 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain |
| Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo, Spain | ||
| 2021/04/01 - 2022/04 | Postdoc (Research) | Universität Hamburg, Germany |
| RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, Universität Hamburg, Germany | ||
| 2012/09/01 - 2020/07/15 | Researcher (Research) | Universidade de Lisboa Centro de História, Portugal |
| 2015/10/01 - 2020/02/29 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Centro de História, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/09 - 2019/02 | Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Centro de História, Portugal | ||
| 2017/09 - 2018/02 | Assistant (University Teacher) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| Universidade de Lisboa Centro de História, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2021/04/01 - 2022/04 | Contested Ceremonies in al-Andalus: Religion and Imperial Ritual between Late Antiquity and Early Islam
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Post-doc Fellow
RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, Universität Hamburg, Germany
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Ongoing
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| 2021/04/01 - 2022/03/31 | Project Romanization and Islamication in Late Antiquity – Transcultural Processes on the Iberian Peninsula and in North Africa
Post-doc Fellow
RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Universität Hamburg, Germany |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Ongoing
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| 2015/10/01 - 2020/02/29 | The door of the caliph in the Umayyad al-Andalus: from the conceptualization to the articulation of ceremonial (10th -11th
centuries)
PD/BD/113904/2015
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de História, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Dictionary entry |
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| Edited book |
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| Encyclopedia entry |
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| Journal article |
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| Magazine article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2023/03/17 | Court, doors, crowns, turbans and thrones: insignia, models and rituals between the Visigoth Kingdom and al-Andalus | The Religious Cultures of Premodern Islamicate Courts in Transregional Perspective
University of Bergen (Bergen, Norway)
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| 2023/02/09 | The memory of the Islamic past of Portugal from oblivion to positive Orientalism: historiography and Romanticism | Orientalism and the uses of Medieval Islamic Past in Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean Europe : a Transnational History (Italy,
Spain, Portugal, France)
Pantheón-Sorbonne (Paris, France)
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| 2022/10/27 | Influencias políticas califales: entre Bizancio y los reinos cristianos | Seminario de Investigación Internacional, Programa de doctorado en Historia y Arqueología Cultura Política y Comunicación
en la Península Ibérica. Pacto, negociación y conflicto (ss. VI-XIII)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
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| 2022/05/04 | Portugal e o al-Andalus: entre a ‘história luso-árabe’ e ‘Portugal na Espanha Árabe’ | Ciclo de Tertúlias Medievalismos e Neomedievalismos, Programa Doutoral em Estudos Medievais
Universidade Nova de Lisboa/ Universidade Aberta (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2021/12/16 | A corte omíada de Córdova: um modelo de sociedade de corte islâmico | Seminário Permanente de Estudos Islâmicos
Universidade Lusófona (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2021/12/01 | El embajador en la Alta y Plena Edad Media peninsular | Seminario de Investigación Internacional – Programa de doctorado en Historia y Arqueología
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
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| 2021/05/22 | Ziryab e a orientalização | Dia do Médio Oriente, Liga de Estudos Asiáticos
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon , Portugal)
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| 2020/12/10 | Oliveira Parreira and Os Luso-Árabes: a story within the history of Portugal? | Using the Past: the middle Ages in the Spotlight
Instituto de Estudos Medievais (Batalha (on-line), Portugal)
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| 2020/11/26 | Luis XIV, Versalles y Madinat al-Zahra: un modelo de sociedad de corte? | Cycle El mito germánico y el mito árabe. Lucha de relatos en la península ibérica en la Antigüedad
Instituto Cervantes de Hamburgo and Toletum network (Universität Hamburg) (Hamburg, Germany)
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| 2020/03/22 | «Syria rises to receive the Caliph»: Umayyad legitimacy from Damascus to Cordoba | The Umayyads from West to East: New Perspectives
RomanIslam Centre - University of Hamburg (Hamburg, Germany)
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| 2019/10/16 | Bab al-Khalifa ou A Porta do Califa: uma ‘Sublime Porta’ omíada? | Encontro com as fontes, Seminários CH-Lisboa, Grupo de Investigação Culturas e Sociedades de Encontro
Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2019/07/02 | Liturgy of Blood under the Rule of the Caliph 'Abd al-Ra¿man III | International Medieval Congress of Leeds
University of Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom)
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| 2018/12/06 | Palestina: o enclave como estratégia de ocupação | Congresso Internacional Insularidades e enclaves em situações coloniais e pós-coloniais: trânsitos, conflitos e construções
identitárias (séculos XV-XXI)
Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
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| 2018/03/08 | al-Andalus y la Reconquista: tradición, paradigmas y renovación historiográfica de una sociedad de frontera (ss. X-XI) | II Diálogos en Alta Edad Media: Caída y ascenso de las estructuras de poder
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
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| 2017/06/06 | Cerimonial e diplomacia na corte califal omíada do al-Andalus | Course “Problemas da corte régia portuguesa”
Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon , Portugal)
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| 2016/07/04 | Feast without food?: Umayyad Andalusi ceremonial in a comparative perspective | International Medieval Congress of Leeds
University of Leeds (Leeds, United Kingdom)
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| 2016/06/20 | Liturgias de poder en al-Andalus omeya: una perspectiva comparada del ceremonial de corte | Seminar Les califats de l'Occident islamique
Casa de Velázquez de Madrid, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) (Madrid, Spain)
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| 2016/05/05 | Participation in the workshop ¿A recepção das mensagens políticas na Idade Média¿ | Workshop ¿A recepção das mensagens políticas na Idade Média¿
Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon , Portugal)
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| 2016/04/11 | The theatre state and the divinization of the caliph in al-Andalus: a comparative perspective | Third Annual Conference of the British Association for Islamic Studies
British Association for Islamic Studies (London, United Kingdom)
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| 2016/03/14 | From Byzantium to Northmen Lands: diplomacy and ceremonial in al-Andalus under the rule of emir ‘Abd al-Rahman II | Marcus Wallenberg Symposium Historians of Medieval Iberia: Enemies and Friends
University of Stockholm/History Museum, Stockholm (Stockholm, Sweden)
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| 2015/12/03 | Ceuta, “chave da outra margem”: a legitimidade e diplomacia de ‘Abd ar-Rahman III no programa de expansão no Magrebe | VII Jornadas Luso-Espanholas de História Medieval
Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon , Portugal)
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| 2015/11/26 | Divulgar a História do al-Andalus na História Medieval Peninsular | Congreso Internacional de Historia Medieval Ciudad de Cáceres
Universidad de Extremadura (Cáceres , Spain)
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| 2015/09/05 | The Mediterranean Sea as a ceremonial and political stage: exchange of embassies between Cordoba and Byzantium (9th – 10th centuries) | Conference Travel and Conflict
University of Bangor (Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom)
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| 2015/06/24 | Ceremonial and Political Legitimacy under the rule of Caliph ‘Abd al-Rahman III | Conference Kings and Queens 4. Dynastic Changes and Legitimacy
Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon , Portugal)
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| 2014/04/04 | O modelo de realeza visigodo e o modelo emiral omíada | Workshop of Medieval Studies
Universidade do Porto (Porto , Portugal)
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| 2013/05/29 | A Diplomacia e a Orientalização da Corte de Córdova (sécs. IX-X) | Seminar Memórias, Discursos e Práticas Sociais
Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisbon , Portugal)
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| 2013/01/18 | A Limpeza Étnica da Palestina | 1st Young Researchers Forum on Islamic Contexts
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisbon , Portugal)
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/03/24 - 2023/03/24 | Organization of activity and participation in the Science Fair of the Comunidad de Madrid with Elvira Martín-Contreras. Exhibition
and activities with maps and facsimil manuscripts with schools. Institute of Languages and Cultures of the Mediterranean and
the Near East - Spanish National Research Council - CSIC - Madrid (2023/03/24 - 2023/03/24)
Exhibition (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain |
| 2023/03/22 - 2023/03/22 | Seminar of the CSIC plataform Social and Cultural History of the Mediterranean(MEDHis), by Francisco del Río Sánchez (Universidad
Complutense de Madrid): «Judeocristianismo y orígenes del Islam. Un encendido debate con nuevas líneas de investigación» (2023/03/22 - 2023/03/22)
Seminar (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo, Spain Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain |
| 2022/12 - 2022/12 | Cycle of cinema "Luz e Sombra. Representações da Idade Média no Cinema"
Cinemateca Portuguesa (12.500 euros)
NOVA FCSH (12.500 euros: IEM – NOVA FCSH (UIDB/00749/2020); IHC – NOVA FCSH (UIDB/04209/2020); IFILNOVA – NOVA FCSH (UIDB/00183/2020);
CESEM - NOVA FCSH (UIDB/00693/2020); IELT – NOVA FCSH (UIDB/00657/2020)
Univ. de Évora (2.500 euros: CIDEHUS - Universidade de Évora (UIDB/00057/2020) (2022/12 - 2022/12)
Festival (Member of the Scientific Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Instituto de Estudos Medievais, Portugal Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Universidade de Évora Centro Interdisciplinar de História Culturas e Sociedades, Portugal |
| 2021/03/22 - 2021/03/23 | Workshop The Umayyads From West to East: New Perspectives (2021/03/22 - 2021/03/23)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
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RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, Universität Hamburg, Germany |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2020/12 - Current | British Association for Islamic Studies | Member |
| 2020/12 - Current | Toletum Network – Netzwerk zur Erforschung der Iberischen Halbinsel in der Antike (Universität Hamburg) | Member |
| 2020/07 - Current | Centro de História da Universidade de Lisboa | Investigadora doutorada integrada |
| 2020 - Current | Sociedad Española de Estudios Medievales | |
| 2018 - Current | Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos Medievais | |
| 2015 - Current | Sociedade Portuguesa de Estudos Medievais (SPEM) | Member |
| 2022/04/01 - 2024/03/31 | Research team Cultural History of the Mediterranean https://pti-medhis.csic.es/grupos-de-investigacion/2021/04/06/historia-cultural-del-mediterraneo/ | researcher |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2021/04/19 - 2021/04/19 | La corte en el al-Andalus omeya (s. X) | al-Andalus y el Mundo Islámico (Graduado) | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain |
| 2021/04/12 - 2021/04/12 | La corte en el al-Andalus omeya (s. X) | al-Andalus y el Mundo Islámico (Graduado) | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain |
| 2020/11/11 - 2021/02/17 | Course “Al-Andalus: an introduction” | RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies, Universität Hamburg, Germany | |
| 2020/10/30 - 2020/10/30 | A corte omíada do al-Andalus | Introdução aos Estudos Asiáticos (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2018/09 - 2019/02 | História do Islão Medieval (Teaching Assistant) | História (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| 2017/09 - 2018/02 | Islão Asiático: Passado e Presente (Teaching Assistant) | Estudos Asiáticos (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| 2015/04/20 - 2015/04/20 | História do al-Andalus (teaching experience) | História (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| 2015/03/26 - 2015/03/26 | História do al-Andalus (teaching experience) | História (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| 2014/11/21 - 2014/11/21 | História do Islão Medieval (teaching experience) | História (Licenciatura) | Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |