http://hdl.handle.net/10174/14444 Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:55:42 GMT 2026-07-08T21:55:42Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42316 Title: Climate, peace, and conflict-past and present: Bridging insights from historical sciences and contemporary research Authors: White, Samuel; Collet, Dominik; Alcoberro, Augustí; Barriendos, Mariano; Brázdil, Rudolf; Castell, Pau; Siyu, Chen; de Coning, Cedric; Degroot, Dagomar; Dolák, Lukas; Döring, Stefan; Gorostiza, Santiago; Kleeman, Katrin; Krampe, Florian; Kuan-Hui, Lin; Maughan, Nicolas; Melo, Natália; Molloy, Barry; Ogilvie, Astrid; Pai, Piling; Qing, Pei; Pfister, Christian; Serafimova, Silviya; Zhang, Diyang Abstract: Concern has risen that current global warming and more frequent extreme events such as droughts and floods will increase conflict around the world. This concern has spurred both social science research on contemporary climate, peace, and conflict as well as research in the historical sciences on past climate, weather, warfare, and violence. This perspectives article compares these two fields of scholarship and examines how each may benefit the other. It finds significant convergences in methods and insights across contemporary and historical research as well as persistent patterns in causal pathways between climate and conflict. Contemporary climate, peace, and conflict (CPC) research may sharpen methods and causal models for historical researchers. Historical studies, particularly those informed by contemporary research, may elucidate deep origins and long-term effects of climate-related conflicts. For policymakers and the public, history offers comprehensible ways to make sense of complex and contingent linkages and to construct cogent narratives of the past as well as storylines for the future Wed, 30 Apr 2025 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42316 2025-04-30T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42055 Title: Coleções coloniais e pós-coloniais em Portugal: reconstituir trajetórias e repensar narrativas Authors: Pereira, Elisabete; Simões, Catarina; Lopes, Quintino Editors: Pereira, Elisabete; Simões, Catarina; Lopes, Quintino Abstract: Na véspera da comemoração dos 50 anos do 25 de Abril de 1974, a revolução que implantou a democracia em Portugal e que iniciou o processo de descolonização de territórios portugueses em África e na Ásia, o presidente da República portuguesa, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, declarou a necessidade de reparações relativas ao colonialismo. Mencionou “os bens espoliados e que não foram devolvidos, quando se provou que eram espoliados” (DN/Lusa, 24 abr. 2024). Aos jornalistas que o interpelavam continuamente sobre o assunto, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa acrescentou dias depois: “Não podemos meter isto debaixo do tapete ou dentro da gaveta. Temos obrigação de pilotar, de liderar este processo” (DN/Lusa, 27 abr. 2024). O presidente mencionou também a necessidade de continuação “do processo de levantamento dos bens patrimoniais das ex-colónias em Portugal, iniciado pelo anterior governo, para posteriormente devolvê-los” (RFI com Lusa, 29 abr. 2024). Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42055 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42048 Title: Colecionismo e contextos coloniais no Museu Nacional de Arqueologia e Museu Municipal Santos Rocha, 1893-1930 Authors: Pereira, Elisabete; Caldeira, Liliana; Figueira, Maria; Laevski, Francisca; Ferreira, Ana; Lopes, Quintino Editors: Pereira, Elisabete; Simões, Catarina; Lopes, Quintino Abstract: Mais de dois mil objetos transnacionais estão hoje no Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, em Lisboa, e no Museu Municipal Santos Rocha, na Figueira da Foz. Sua história está relacionada com o nacionalismo, o colonialismo e o desenvolvimento da arqueologia pré-histórica no final do século XIX e início do século XX. Cruzando múltiplas fontes e publicações de época, o artigo aborda o itinerário dessas coleções decorrentes, principalmente, das campanhas militares de ocupação de territórios africanos e das redes de poder que transportaram até Portugal múltiplos artefactos. As narrativas, descrições e categorizações eurocêntricas que perduram desde essa época mostram como a pesquisa de proveniência é fundamental para documentar e confrontar os legados coloniais dos museus. Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42048 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42042 Title: Armando de Lacerda and the Coimbra Phonetics Laboratory, 1930-1979. Cross-national mobility and exchange in a global context Authors: Lopes, Quintino; Lacerda, Francisco de; Simões, Ana Abstract: This paper is a contribution to the history of experimental phonetics seen from the perspective of the emergence, development, and impact of the experimental phonetics laboratory operating at the University of Coimbra, Portugal, from 1936 to 1979, which was considered by many experts in the mid-20th century as the most advanced in Europe. The history of the laboratory is presented in four sections, discussing: (1) the context of its emergence within the rise of experimental phonetics in Europe, starting in the late 19th century; (2) the training abroad of Armando de Lacerda, its director, and his rise to international leadership as a key concept maker, instrument designer, and institution builder; (3) the role of the laboratory as a central node of a dynamic international network, a pole of attraction for foreign students and researchers for more or less extended stays at its premises (1936–1956); and (4) its decay and downfall in the Portuguese context, contrasted with its role as a hub for the reproduction of expertise globally, from Europe to North and South America and Australia. At the local level, due to a fragile (and increasingly hostile) institutional environment, the laboratory was unable to reproduce expertise across scientific generations; at the international level, it acted as the springboard for fruitful careers, and for the establishment of new laboratories that nurtured successive generations of experts. Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10174/42042 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z