Professor André Belo, PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Professor

Maître de Conférences, Department of Portuguese, University of Rennes 2 (France)

Career

I lived and studied in Lisbon, Portugal, through my Master's degree, and moved to Paris, France, to start a PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. I completed it in 2005, with a thesis entitled: Nouvelles d'Ancien Régime. La Gazeta de Lisboa et l'information manuscrite au Portugal (1715-1760).
I was a Lecturer at the University of Lille 3 between 2003-2006, where I organized an international conference on the 1755 Lisbon Earthquake. In 2006 I became an Associate Professor at the University of Rennes 2, where I teach History and Literature in the field of Portuguese Studies.

My publications include a reader in Book and Reading History (Belo Horizonte, 2002), the scholarly edition of two Portuguese 18th and 19th century bibliographical dictionaries and a number of essays in the history of news and information in 18th century Portugal.

Research interests:

Cultural and social history of early modern Europe, and particularly:

• News, newspapers and information
• Social identity in Iberian theatre
• Sebastianism

Publications:

PhD thesis

• Nouvelles d’Ancien Régime : la Gazette de Lisbonne et l’information manuscrite au Portugal (1715-1760) [Old Regime News: the Lisbon Gazette and handwritten information in Portugal (1715-1760],  2005.

Books

• 2002 — História & livro e leitura [History and Books and Reading], Belo Horizonte, Ed. Autêntica, col. « Reflexões » 3, 2002, 116 pp. Certified as « Highly Recommandable— 2002» by the brasilian section of the IBBY, International Board on Books for Young People.
• 2001 — As Gazetas e os Livros. A Gazeta de Lisboa e a vulgarização do impresso (1715-1760) [Gazettes and Books. The Lisbon Gazette and the difffusion of printed objects], Lisbon, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, « Estudos e Investigações », 21, 2001, 140 pp.

Articles

• «Faille de la mémoire et témoignage: le premier sébastianisme (1587-1603) », paper to the congress « Failles de la Mémoire » (Univ. Rennes 2, november 2010), to be published by the Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2011.
• « Hablar o callar: la gaceta tardobarroca », paper to the "Curso Barroco y Comunicación" (Univ. of Seville, Spain, November 2009) directed by Roger Chartier; to be published by the Internacional University Menendez Pelayo/Fundación Focus-Abengoa, 2011.
• 2010 — "La política de los partidos: noticias de las guerras europeas en Portugal en la primera mitad del siglo XVIII", in Antonio Castillo Gómez and James S. Amelang (dirs.), y Carmen Serrano Sánchez (ed.): Opinión pública y espacio urbano en la Edad Moderna, Gijón: Trea, 2010
• 2010 — « Pouvoir de l'imprimé et valeur du manuscrit dans le Portugal du XVIIIe siècle: le cas de l'information périodique », in Ricardo Saez (dir.), L'imprimé et ses pouvoirs dans les langues romanes, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2010, p. 173-189.
• 2007 — « A notícia do terramoto no sistema de informação de Antigo Regime », in Maria Fernanda Rollo, Ana Isabel Buescu and Pedro Cardim (coord.) História e Ciência da Catástrofe, Lisbon, ed. Colibri, 2007, p. 55-66.
• 2005 — « Nouvelles imprimées et nouvelles manuscrites dans le Portugal du XVIIIe siècle: le caractère social de l'information », in Arquivos do Centro Cultural Calouste Gulbenkian, vol. XLIX, Sociabilités Intellectuelles (XVI-XXe siècle), Lisbon-Paris, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2005, p. 137-146.
• 2004 — « Between history and periodicity: printed and handwritten news in XVIIIth century Portugal», in the E-journal of Portuguese History, Brown University and Oporto University,  Vol. 2:2 (Winter 2004) (http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studies/ejph/html/issue4/html/belo_main.html)
• 2004 — « Notícias impressas e manuscritas em Portugal no século XVIII : horizontes de leitura da Gazeta de Lisboa », in Horizontes Antropológicos, ano 10,nº 22, juillet-décemb. 2004, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, p. 15-35.  (http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-71832004000200002)
• 2002 — « As gazetas dos impressores : a estratégia de vulgarização da Gazeta de Lisboaentre 1742 e 1752 », in Cadernos de Cultura. Suplemento da Revista Cultura — Revista de História e Teoria das Ideias, review of the Center for the History of Culture – New University of Lisbon, n° 4/2002, p. 59-74.
• 2000 — « A Gazeta de Lisboa e o terramoto de 1755 : a margem do não escrito », Análise Social, review of the Social Sciences Institute of the University of Lisbon, vol. XXXIV (151-152), 2000, pp. 619-637. Also published in the website of the « Memória de Leitura » project, by the Profs. Marisa Lajolo et Márcia Abreu, University of Campinas (São Paulo – Brazil) (http://www.unicamp.br/iel/memoria/)

Critical edition in digital format:

• Critical Editor for CD-Rom of two reference dictionaries of Portuguese bibliography:
• 2001- Diccionario Bibliographico Portuguez, by Inocêncio Francisco da Silva e Brito Aranha (1st ed. 23 vols., Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda, 1858-1923).«Col. Ophir-Biblioteca Virtual dos Descobrimentos Portugueses» (9), Lisbon, National Board for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries, 2001.
• 1998- Bibliotheca Lusitana, by Diogo Barbosa Machado (1st ed. 4 vols., Lisbon, 1741-1759) Col. «Ophir-Biblioteca Virtual dos Descobrimentos Portugueses» (2), Lisbon, National Board for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries, 1998.