http://hdl.handle.net/10174/14444 2026-04-08T08:29:20Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/38848 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. 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/38723 Title: Albuquerque, Sara. Book Review, “Robyn d'Avignon. A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in West Africa Authors: Albuquerque, Sara Abstract: Robyn d’Avignon, a scholar with broad interests in the history of natural resource governance and scientific research, has written a pathbreaking book that will be of interest not only to an academic audience but also to a broader public one. A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in West Africa is an impressive piece of scholarship that provides readers with a refreshing approach to African histories of science and technology. The book centers on African epistemologies and ontologies as they relate to the underground, mining, and geology. In doing so, the book provides an innovative decolonial framework that decenters traditional narratives about, for instance, twentieth and “twenty-first-century scramble[s] for Africa’s resources.” Focusing on Senegal, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, and Mali, d’Avignon uses historical, archaeological, and ethnographic data to reconstruct the history of ritual geology, “a set of practices, prohibitions, and cosmological engagements with the earth that are widely shared and cultivated across a regional geological formation” (5). 2025-05-31T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/38632 Title: Investigação, Curadoria e Preservação digitais: modelo colaborativo entre o CHAM – Centro de Humanidades e o Núcleo de Desenvolvimento Digital da Investigação Authors: Ochôa, Paula; Salgueiro, Ângela; Almeida, Bruno; Oliveira, Silvana; Araújo, Rui Abstract: Este artigo pretende descrever uma experiência intraorganizacional de cooperação estratégica, refletindo sobre os fatores críticos de sucesso no desenvolvimento de políticas de preservação e curadoria digitais envolvendo instituições de ensino superior e centros de investigação. São consideradas duas perspectivas qualitativas no estudo de caso: a practice turn e a perspectiva do estudo do comportamento e práticas informacionais para estudar a estratégia e as interações informacionais do modelo de colaboração desenvolvido entre um centro de investigação (CHAM – Centro de Humanidades) e a equipa especializada do Núcleo de Desenvovlvimento Digital da Investigação (NDDI) da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Foram utilizados métodos como a análise documental, a observação e a análise de práticas informacionais. O modelo de colaboração é analisado nas suas características estratégicas e práticas informacionais: diálogo ativo e contínuo entre a comunidade de investigadores, suportada por atividades de coaching do NDDI, focalizadas na obtenção de um consenso generalizado, mas flexível em torno da investigação, curadoria e preservação digitais. A sua implementação resulta de uma estratégia Top-down, garantindo o apoio organizacional e a governança da informação, e Bottom-up, constituindo um processo conduzido pela comunidade, desenvolvendo duas ações interrelacionadas: uma experiência piloto de teste de gestão de dados e a avaliação conjunta dos sites de projetos de investigação com recomendações para a sua sustentabilidade, interoperabilidade, preservação e curadoria digitais. 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10174/38342 Title: Fig tree (Ficus carica L.) art in the Azores (Portugal) Authors: Carvalho, Luis; Fernandes, Francisca; Nozes, Paula; Figueira, Ana Paula; Nunes, Fátima; Albuquerque, Sara Abstract: The art made with white heartwood slices obtained from the young branches of the fig tree (Ficus carica L.) is found only in the Azores (Portugal). It probably began in the convents of nuns, during the XVII century, and soon after the secularization of these institutions continued to be done by artisans. This exquisite traditional art produces light and delicate pieces, and it is now kept by few artisans. 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z