Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Nina Vieira
Citation names
- Vieira, Nina
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 8D13-C1D7-57E8
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-6280-9951
Email addresses
- ninavieira@fcsh.unl.pt (Professional)
Websites
- http://www.cham.fcsh.unl.pt/invdet.aspx?inv=NA_0271 (Scholar)
- https://twitter.com/PtNina (Social media)
Knowledge fields
- Humanities - History and Archaeology - History
Languages
Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
English | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
Degree | Classification | |
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2015/09 - 2020/04/27
Concluded
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História dos Descobrimentos e da Expansão Portuguesa (Doutoramento)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
""A taxonomia da baleação portuguesa entre os séculos XV e XVIII: Uma história atlântica do mar, das baleias e das pessoas".
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Muito Bom por unanimidade (maximum grade) |
2008 - 2010
Concluded
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Ecologia Marinha (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
"Cetaceans' occurrence and behavioural patterns off portuguese mainland coast" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2003 - 2008
Concluded
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Biologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal
"Ocorrência de Cetáceos na Costa Continental Portuguesa: Dados de Baleação e Estudo de Populações Costeiras" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021/12/01 - Current | Research Assistant (Research) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2015/06 - Current | Researcher (Research) | CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal |
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal (...) |
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2019/12 - 2021/11/30 | Science and Technology Management | CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal |
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal (...) |
Teaching in Higher Education
Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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2021 - Current | Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
Designation | Funders | |
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2022/10/01 - Current | ANIMAL BIOGRAPHIES A network of agencies in the making of early modern empires
Principal investigator
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
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CHAM Centro de Humanidades
Ongoing
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2022/08 - 2022/08 | Projeto Verão com Ciência: Humanidades para o ambiente e património
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CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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2019/12/01 - 2020/05/31 | ONE-Humanities for the Ocean
Science and Technology Management Fellow
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Concluded
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2015/12 - 2019/11 | The taxonomy of Portuguese Whaling between the 15th and the 18th century: An atlantic history of the sea, whales and people
SFRH/BD/104932/2014
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Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia |
2015/06 - 2015/11 | Research grant of CHAM's thematic line "The Sea"
UID/HIS/04666/2013
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
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CHAM Centro de Humanidades |
Contract
Designation | Funders | |
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2021/12/01 - Current | 4-OCEANS: : Human History of Marine Life - Extraction, Knowledge, Drivers and Consumption of Marine resources, c.100 BCE to
c. 1880 CE
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2018/01/01 - 2023/10/31 | The construction of early modern global Cities and oceanic networks in the Atlantic: An approach via OceaN’s Cultural HeritAge
777998
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European Commission
Concluded
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2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 | CHAM - Centro de Humanidades
UID/HIS/04666/2019
CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso, Portugal Universidade dos Açores, Portugal Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Other
Designation | Funders | |
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2023 - Current | EUTOPIA Connected Community in Environmental Humanities
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Researcher
Università Ca' Foscari, Italy
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European Commission
Ongoing
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2021/02 - Current | H-WHALE - A chronology of change: an Heritage network of historical WHALing in Europe
FBR_OC1_80_UNL
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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EEA Grants
Ongoing
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2021/01 - Current | Amidst 'ever-flowing water' - tracing aquatic symbols and metaphors in Lower Mesopotamia religion (c. 3300 - 1800 BCE) (Acronym:
WATERS)
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CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal
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Not funded
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2016 - Current | UNESCO Chair 'The Ocean's Cultural Heritage'
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
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Ongoing
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2019 - 2021 | MARINE LEXICON: Bilateral construction of a cross-European thesaurus about early modern marine mammals
EEA Grant Bilateral Fund FBR_OC1_29
Researcher
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EEA Grants
Ongoing
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2014/01 - 2018/12 | OPP-Oceans Past Platform
COST Action IS1403
Participant
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European Commission |
Outputs
Publications
Book |
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Book chapter |
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Conference poster |
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Journal article |
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Journal issue |
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Magazine article |
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Online resource |
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Report |
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Artistic / Performance
Curatorial / Museum exhibition |
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Other
Dataset |
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Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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2023/10/23 | Leviathan no Brasil: um caso de transferência (acidental) de conhecimento sobre um novo recurso energético no Atlântico setecentista. | V REPORT(H)A Meeting: Energy and socio-environmental challenges
University of Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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2023/09/07 | Crossing animal history and whaling heritage between Portugal and Norway. | Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities Symposium
University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
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2023/09/07 | A digital roadmap for investigating oceanic commodities: The case of Aaron Lopez's whaling trade in the 18th-century | Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities Symposium
University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway)
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2023/05/19 | Animal Biographies: a Way Forward in Animal Studies and Environmental History. | Meeting of the British Animal Studies Network "State of the Field"
University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
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2022/11/28 | It’s all about whales: from written and visual sources to bones. | Still life, living sea? Aquatic Biodiversity of the Past and Contemporary Development Issues
Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme (Aix-en-Provence, France)
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2022/10/29 | Perceções oceânicas: Animais marinhos entendidos como hiper-objetos | 10º Seminário Desafios do Mar Português: do Mar às Artes
Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo (Ílhavo, Portugal)
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2021/10 | Exploração de animais marinhos pelo olhar das Humanidades. | XI Encontro da Rede BRASPOR |
2021/10 | Coastal whaling and its dirty environment (Brazil, 1600-1800). | IV Encontro REPORT(H)A “Sapiens, Saúde e Meio Ambiente - Fronteiras Naturais e Artificiais”
REPORT(H)A-Rede Portuguesa de História Ambiental
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2021/07 | Abundance and finitude of whales: a case study for an early change of marine ecosystems. | V CHAM International Conference “Frontiers of Humanity and Beyond: Towards new critical understandings of borders" |
2021/07 | A network for whales’ history: Examples from two bilateral initiatives on the oceans’ cultural, heritage and memory. | |
2019/11 | Whales at sea, settlements on land. Or the importance of early modern whaling in Brazil. | II International Meeting “Histories of Nature and Environment: Shaping Landscapes”
Centro de História da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
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2019/10 | Stories of whales from the past: the study-case of whaling in Brazil (XVII-XVIII). | CONCHA 2nd Workshop “Sea and Animals: History, Culture and Marine Conservation”
CHAM-Centre for the Humanities
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2018/10 | Facing changes, changing targets: Sperm Whale hunting in Brazil in the late 18th century. | Oceans Past VII International Conference
(Bremerhaven, Germany)
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2018/01 | A baleia, útil monstro do mar: uma história de baleação no Atlântico moderno. | Workshop “Persiguiendo ballenas del Atlántico (pasando por el cabo de Hornos) al Pacífico...".
Subdirección de Investigación de la Dirección de Bibliotecas, Archivos y Museos (DIBAM) and Universidad Academia de Humanismo
Cristiano (Santiago, Chile)
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2017/09 | Este he o azeite ordinario que alumia todo o Brazil. Perceções e utilizações de um recurso marinho na história colonial. | VII Encontro da Rede BRASPOR
(Sesimbra, Portugal)
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2017/07 | The value of whales in early modern South Atlantic: Whale hunting in the coast of Brazil. | III International CHAM Conference “Oceans and Shores: Heritage, People and Environments”.
CHAM Centro de Humanidades (Lisboa, Portugal)
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2017/05/17 | An assessment of historical whaling catches in the coast of Brazil (16th to 18th centuries). | Oceans Past VI International Conference “Historical Perspectives on the Elements and Dynamics of the Marine Socio-ecological
System”
(Sesimbra, Portugal)
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2017/05 | A baleação portuguesa do Atlântico Sul na época moderna: uma análise integrada em História Ambiental Marinha suportada pela Ação COST Oceans Past Platform. | II Simpósio Internacional de História e Arqueologia da Indústria Baleeira nos Mares da América do Sul.
Centro de Artes, Humanidades e Letras da Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, (Cachoeira, Brazil)
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Supervision
Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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2022 - 2023 | Animais Perigosos e Agentes Silenciosos: Interações entre humanos e tubarões no Atlântico (Séculos XV a XVIII)
Co-supervisor
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História do Império Português (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Event organisation
Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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2020/11/07 - Current | International Congress "Espelhos de Mercúrio: A Representação do Comércio nas Monarquias Ibéricas, 1500-1800" (2020/11/07)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)
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CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal |
2019/08 - Current | Member of the organizing committee of EMMA 2019 - Encontro sobre Mamíferos Marinhos, 15 November, FCUL, Lisbon (2018/11)
Meeting
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Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal |
2023/09/06 - 2023/09/07 | Organisation of the panel "The Humanities 4 the Ocean: Breaking through disciplinary boundaries" at the Transdisciplinary
in the Environmental Humanities Symposium. (2023/09)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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University of Oslo - Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, Norway |
2023/07/12 - 2023/07/14 | Organisation of the thematic panel "Ocean's Heritage: Knowing the Natural, Safeguarding the Cultural" at the VI CHAM International
Conference: Heritage for a Common Future/Futures for a Common Heritage. (2023)
Conference (Other)
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CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal |
2022/11/24 - 2022/11/26 | Co-organisation of the III International Meeting Histories of Nature and Environments "More than just Biodiversity" (2022)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Turismo e Tecnologia do Mar de Peniche, Portugal |
2022/07/10 - 2022/07/13 | Organization of the Summer School "(An-)Hydrous Environments: Rethinking Water in Environmental History".
(2022/07/10)
Other (Co-organisor)
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ESEH-European Society for Environmental History, Germany |
2022/07/04 - 2022/07/08 | Organization of the Roundtable "Oceanic Worlds: More-than-human aquatic histories in early modernity", at the European Society
for Environmental History Conference 2022 - Same planet, different worlds: environmental histories imagining anew. (2022/07)
Round table (Co-organisor)
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University of Bristol, United Kingdom |
2021/07/21 - 2021/07/23 | V CHAM International Conference "Frontiers of Humanity and Beyond: Towards new critical understandings of borders". 21-23
july 2021, FCSH (Lisbon) and online. (2021)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
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FCSH NOVA - CHAM-Centre for the HUmanities, Portugal |
2019/11/21 - 2019/11/23 | 2nd International Meeting Histories of Nature and Environments: Shaping Landscapes. (2019/11/21 - 2019/11/23)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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Universidade de Lisboa Centro de História, Portugal CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Administração e Políticas Públicas, Portugal |
2018 - 2019/01/05 | Organization of the II Luso-American Reading Marathon of Moby Dick, 5 January 2019, NOVA FCSH, Lisbon. (2020/01/05)
Other (Co-organisor)
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CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal |
2019 - 2019 | Member of the organizing committee of the CONCHA 2nd Workshop "Sea and Animals: History, Culture and Marine Conservation",
21-23 October 2019, NOVA FCSH, Lisbon. (2019/10/21 - 2019/10/23)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2018 - 2018 | Member of the organizing committee of the CONCHA 1st Workshop "Crossing seas, Rising islands, Connecting people", 14-16 November 2018, NOVA FCSH, Lisbon. (2018/11/14 - 2018/11/16) | CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal |
2016 - 2017 | Member of the organizing committee of the Oceans Past VI International Conference "Historical Perspectives on the elements
and dynamics of the marine socio-ecologial system", 16-18 May 2017, CHAM, Sesimbra. (2017/05/16 - 2017/05/18)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
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CHAM Centro de Humanidades, Portugal |
2012 - 2013 | Member of the organizing committee of the 27th Conference of the European Cetacean Society, 8-10 April 2013, APCM, Setúbal.
(2013/04/08 - 2013/04/10)
Conference
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Associação Para as Ciências do Mar, Portugal |
Event participation
Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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2021/12/06 - Current | Keynote speaker with the lecture "venhamos em fim a falar da pesca das baleias": a importância da baleação no Brasil dos séculos
XVII e XVIII.
Conference
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IV Seminário das Armações Catarinenses
Universidade da Região de Joinville, Brazil
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2021/07 - Current | Organization of the thematic panel "(Early) Anthropocene: Exploitation and Extinction in the Seas" at the V CHAM International
Conference.
Conference
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FCSH NOVA - CHAM-Centre for the HUmanities, Portugal
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2020/05 - Current | Casks of oil, burdens of baleen: The importance of whales and whaling in Brazil (17th and 18th centuries). Poster presented at the Ocean’s Past Initiative – 2020 Online Conference. |
Jury of academic degree
Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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2020/09 | O ambiente aquático da Baixa Mesopotâmia e os seus significados simbólicos (IV-III milénios a.C.).
(Thesis) Arguer
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Silva, Jaime (Master)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
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Association member
Society Organization name | Role | |
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2021 - Current | European Society for Environmental History | Board member and Regional Representative of Portugal |
2019 - Current | OPI-Oceans Past Initiative | Associate |
2017 - Current | REPORT(H)A-Rede Portuguesa de História Ambiental (Portuguese Network of Environmental History) | |
2009 - Current | APCM-Associação para as Ciências do Mar | Founding member |
Conference scientific committee
Conference name | Conference host | |
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2023 - Current | 7º Encontro Nacional de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia | Universidade de Évora |
2022 - Current | Natural Disasters in History: On the 500th year of Vila Franca do Campo earthquake |
Course / Discipline taught
Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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2021 - Current | Interações Socioculturais da Expansão Portuguesa [Sociocultural Interactions of the Portuguese Expansion] | História do Império Português (Mestrado integrado) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2023/11/21 - 2023/11/21 | Invited trainer at the course Museus: Medicação e Participação [Museums: Mediation and Participation] with the lecture "A academia nos museus: colaboração entre a Câmara Municipal de Peniche e o projeto 4-Oceans" ["The academy in museums: collaboration between the Municipality of Peniche and the project 4-Oceans"]. | (Curso Técnico Superior Profissional) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
2018/02 - 2018/06 | Materialidades Líquidas: Produtos do Mar - Transformação Humana [Liquid Materialities: Products from the Sea - Human Transformation]. Department of History. 2nd Semester 2017/2018 | (Licenciatura) | Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal |
Interview (tv / radio show)
Program | Topic | |
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2020/05/22 - Current | Cátedra UNESCO - Oceanos [UNESCO Chair - Oceans], radio show presented by João Almeida at the public channel Antena 2. Curatorship | Portuguese whaling in the Atlantic from the 15th to the 18th century. |
Mentoring / Tutoring
Topic | Student name | |
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2022/08/01 - 2022/08/31 | Mentoring undergraduate research fellows under the FCT Verão com Ciência 2022 [Summer with Science] programme. | Diogo Falcato |
2022/08/01 - 2022/08/31 | Mentoring undergraduate research fellows under the FCT Verão com Ciência 2022 [Summer with Science] programme. | André Carvalho |
Distinctions
Award
2023 | Honourable Mention "Whales Around Us. The impact of Environmental History and the Blue Humanities to new historiographical
narratives and an informed and empathetic society towards the natural world".
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal
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2020 | Honourable Mention with the PhD thesis A taxonomia da baleação portuguesa entre os séculos XV e XVIII: Uma história atlântica
do mar, das baleias e das pessoas.
Academia de Marinha - Marinha Portuguesa, Portugal
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2009 | Above and Under the Surface: environmental education about coastal habitats
Project AWARE Foundation (Europe), Switzerland
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