Filipa Lowndes Vicente was born in Lisbon in 1972. Since 2009 she has been a researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, in the area of History. She has a PhD from the University of London in 2000 (Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths College), a postgraduate degree in Contemporary Art History from Goldsmiths College (1995), and a degree in History/Art History from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1994). Her doctoral thesis led to the book Travels and Exhibitions: D. Pedro V in 19th Century Europe (Lisbon: Gótica, 2003), which was awarded the "Victor de Sá Prize for Contemporary History" in 2004.

Between 1994 and 2009 she lived in England (London), the USA (Providence and New Haven), Italy (Florence), and again in England where, during the 2008-2009 academic year, she was a visiting researcher in the Department of Art and Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. During this period she benefited from support from the FCT, through doctoral scholarships abroad and post-doctoral scholarships, as well as a grant from the Portuguese Orient Foundation.

Her research focuses on modes of knowledge production in the 19th and 20th centuries: the construction and uses of the past; the intersections between visual, material and written cultures and colonialism; the intellectual production of Indian elites in Portuguese and British colonial India; Indian, Italian and Portuguese orientalism; colonial comparisons and intersections between the Portuguese empire and the British empire in India; the history of collections, exhibitions and museums in a colonial context; the mobility and circulation of people, objects, ideas and images; the history of photography; the history of knowledge and art produced by women.

Her historical research corresponds to five main areas, all of which are marked by transnational and transcolonial approaches.

1. History of culture in 19th century Europe: modernity, progress, science.

2. European and Indian Orientalism (1860-1900): production and circulation of knowledge in a global space.

3. Portuguese and British Colonial India: comparisons and intersections between empires (19th and 20th centuries)

4. Photography from colonial contexts to the African Diaspora

5. Art historiography and women artists

Research topics you intend to pursue in the future:

• Uses of the past in the present: the material and visual culture of the colonies in post-colonial societies.
• Museums, exhibitions and collections in the Portuguese colonial space (1860-1960).
• Women's knowledge production in colonial contexts (19th-20th centuries).
• Cultures of Birth: historical and anthropological approaches to childbirth and motherhood

Investigation group member:

Memory, History and Society

Empires, Colonialism and Postcolonial Societies

Projects:

Knowledge and Vision: Photography in the Archives and the Portuguese Colonial Museum (1850-1950) - Completed

Goa on Display: Histories, Images and Identities (1850-1950) - Completed