Liam Benison (7212-25F2-7D7C)

Curriculum Vitae

Liam Benison

Dr. Liam Benison is a researcher in the Department of Cultures and Civilizations at the University of Verona, collaborating researcher in the Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies (CETAPS) at the University of Porto, and an affiliated scholar of the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen. After completing his BA and MA at the University of Melbourne, Australia, he edited and published primary health-care journals in London before returning to the academy. He earned a joint PhD from the University of Porto and University of Kent in 2020. His research interests include early modern privacy, utopian literature, cartography, book history, history of knowledge, and encounters between Indigenous and Europeans in Australia. At the University of Verona, he teaches bibliography and library science in Italian. His current research project, "Privutopia", financed in Italy via the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Seal of Excellence scheme (CUP: B37G22000830006), investigates changes in the meaning of privacy and related concepts such as dissimulation and surveillance in early modern Europe through the lens of utopian texts, paratexts and maps. His research has been published with Palgrave and in KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge. His edited volume Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques was published by U.Porto Press in 2023.

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Identificação

Identificação pessoal

Nome completo: Liam Benison

Nomes de citação

Benison, Liam

Identificadores de autor

Ciência ID: 7212-25F2-7D7C
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4989-4370

Telefones

Telemóvel

(+351) 969349275 (Profissional)

Moradas

Rua do Freixo, 1234, Casa 1, 4300-211, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Pessoal)

Domínios de atuação

Humanidades - Línguas e Literaturas - Estudos Gerais da Literatura

Idiomas

Idioma	Conversação	Leitura	Escrita	Compreensão
Inglês (Idioma materno)
Português	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador independente (B2)
Italiano	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador independente (B2)
Francês	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)	Utilizador proficiente (C1)
Espanhol; Castelhano	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador independente (B2)	Utilizador independente (B2)
Alemão	Utilizador independente (B1)	Utilizador independente (B1)	Utilizador independente (B1)	Utilizador independente (B1)
Holandês		Utilizador elementar (A2)
Inglês Antigo (ca. 550-1100)		Utilizador proficiente (C1)

Formação

	Grau	Classificação
2015/09/01 - 2020/11/26 Concluído	Text and Event in Early Modern Europe (Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate) (Doutoramento) Especialização em Literature and Culture Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal University of Kent School of English, Reino Unido "Reduced to a Map: Poetic Geographies of 'Australia', 1606–1708" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	Distinction
1994/03/01 - 1998/12/31 Concluído	Master of Arts (Magister) Especialização em Old English Literature and Culture The University of Melbourne, Austrália "Translation in Old English Literature: The Politics of Christian Conversion" (TESE/DISSERTAÇÃO)	H2A
1995/04/10 - 1995/05/10 Concluído	Teaching English as a Foreign Language to Adults (CTEFLA) (Licence) Especialização em Language teaching Holmes Institute, Austrália	Pass B
1988/01/07 - 1993/12/01 Concluído	Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor) Especialização em English The University of Melbourne, Austrália	H2A

Percurso profissional

Ciência

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2022/12/20 - 2025/12/19	Investigador Contratado (Investigação)	Università degli Studi di Verona, Itália
	Università degli Studi di Verona, Itália

Outras Carreiras

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2001/01/26 - 2014/11/30	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Mark Allen Group, Reino Unido

Outros

	Categoria Profissional Instituição de acolhimento	Empregador
2022/05/01 - Atual	Affiliated Scholar	Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, Dinamarca

2021/01/01 - Atual	Collaborating Researcher	Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
	Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal (...)

Projetos

Bolsa

	Designação	Financiadores
2022/12/20 - 2025/12/19	Privutopia B37G22000830006 Bolseiro de Pós-Doutoramento Università degli Studi di Verona, Itália	Em curso
2015/09/01 - 2018/08/31	Text and Event in Early Modern Europe (TEEME) EMJD TEEME Bolseiro de Doutoramento University of Kent, Reino Unido Universidade do Porto, Portugal	Concluído

Outro

	Designação	Financiadores
2022/07/01 - 2025/07/31	Portals on Privacy in Early Modern Utopian Literature 01010 Investigador Pós-doutorado Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal	Em curso
2001/01/26 - 2014/11/30	Practice Nursing ISSN: 0964-9271 Editor Mark Allen Group, Reino Unido

Produções

Publicações

Artigo em revista	Benison, Liam. ""Catching Birds in the Net": Paratexts of Deception and Persuasion in Early Modern Utopias". Paratesto 20 (2023): 25-39. Publicado • https://doi.org/10.19272/202305901002 Benison, Liam. "Negotiations at the Border of Knowledge: The Paradox of Privacy in Early Modern Utopia". KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge 7 1 (2023): 61-89. https://doi.org/10.1086/724825. Publicado Benison, Liam. "Gábor Gelléri and Rachel Willie, eds., Travel and Conflict in the Early Modern World (Routledge, 2020) [Review]". SEDERI Yearbook 32 (2022): 123-127. http://www.sederi.org/yearbook/sederi-32/. Publicado Benison, Liam. "Early Medieval Science: The Evidence of Bede". Endeavour 24 3 (2000): 111-116. Publicado
Capítulo de livro	Benison, Liam. "Ten Sailors and Five Men of Distinction: A Rare Meeting in the Southland in 1658". In The Palgrave Handbook of Global Oceanic Encounters through History, editado por Lynette Russell. Melbourne, Austrália: Palgrave, 2025. Em revisão Benison, Liam. "Vestiges of Private Dialogues in Early Modern Utopian Literature". In Practices of Privacy: Vestiges of Dialogue, edited by Annemie Leemans, Natacha Klein Käfer, Jelena Bakic, Liam Benison. Rome, Itália: Academia Belgica, 2025. Em revisão Benison, Liam. "Talking Privately in Utopia: Ideals of Silence and Dissimulation in Smeeks' Krinke Kesmes (1708)". In Tracing Everyday Conversations in Early Modern Europe, editado por Johannes Ljungberg; Natacha Klein Käfer. London, Reino Unido: Palgrave, 2024. No prelo Benison, Liam. "Introduction: Towards Utopian Possibilities". In Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques, 27-32. Porto, Portugal: U.Porto Press, 2023. Publicado Benison, Liam. "Exchanges of Knowledge at the Private-Public Divide in Smeeks's Krinke Kesmes". In Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques, editado por Liam Benison, 101-108. Porto, Portugal: U.Porto Press, 2023. Publicado Benison, Liam. "Geographical Poetics". In The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures, editado por Peter Marks; Jennifer Wagner Lawlor; Fátima Vieira, 537-547. London, Reino Unido: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. Publicado • 10.1007/978-3-030-88654-7_42 Benison, Liam. "How to Write for Publication". In Handbook of Practice Nursing, editado por Martin, Jeannett; Lucas, Julia. London, Reino Unido: Churchill Livingstone / Elsevier, 2004. Publicado Benison, Liam. "Translation during King Alfred's Reign: The Politics of Conversion and Truth". In The Medieval Translator 6: Traduire au Moyen Age, editado por Ellis, Roger; Tixier, René; Weitemeier, Bernd. Turnhout, Bélgica: Brepols, 1998. Publicado
Edição de livro	Benison, Liam. Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques. Porto, Portugal: U.Porto Press. 2023. Publicado • https:/doi.org/10.21747/978-989-746-359-4/uto • Editor
Resumo em conferência	Moreira, Luciano; Benison, Liam; Pierazzo, Jaqueline; Cerqueira, Tânia; Gonçalves, Alice; Caetano, Joana; Isabel Relvas. Autor correspondente: Moreira, Luciano. "The making of a sustainable digital humanities lab: A values-oriented approach". Trabalho apresentado em Arts and Humanities in Digital Transition 2023, 2023. Publicado
Tese / Dissertação	Benison, Liam. "Reduced to a Map: Poetic Geographies of 'Australia', 1606-1708". Doutoramento, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, 2020.

Atividades

Apresentação oral de trabalho

	Título da apresentação	Nome do evento Anfitrião (Local do evento)
2024/03/22	Strategies for the Publication and Concealment of Private Knowledge in Early Modern Maps of "Australia", as part of the Panel: "Privacy in Context IV: Engaging new sources", convened by Prof. Mette Birkedal Bruun	RSA Chicago 2024 Conference Renaissance Society of America (Chicago, Estados Unidos)
2023/11/23	The Construction and Limits of Public Geographical Knowledge of the “Southland” in the Seventeenth Century	History of Knowledge Conference University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/11/22	(with Luciano Moreira) Privacy in French Utopian Literature during the Enlightenment: A Distant-Reading Approach to the Heuristic Zones of Privacy	History of Knowledge Conference, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/07/14	Observation and Omission in Seventeenth-Century Print and Manuscript Cartographies of the "Australian" Coast	International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) Symposium: "Intersections in Map History" Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin, Alemanha)
2023/07/07	Geographic Imaginaries of Early Modern Privacy in Utopian Literature	23rd Conference of the Utopian Studies Society Europe Babes-Bolyai University (Cluj, Roménia)
2023/03/22	Un'esperienza dell'editoria inglese: Interfaccie specializzate e praticanti [An experience of English publishing: The specialist-practitioner interface] (guest lecture in Italian)	Professor Federica Formiga's MA Course in Publishing University of Verona (Verona, Itália)
2023/03/21	Paratesti utopici della prima età moderna [Early modern utopian paratexts] (guest lecture in Italian)	Professor Federica Formiga's BA Course in the History of the Book University of Verona (Verona, Itália)
2022/12/01	Portals to Early Modern Privacy through Utopian Dialogues	Second Practices of Privacy Symposium: “Vestiges of Dialogue and its Places” Academia Belgica, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome and Danish Institute in Rome (Rome, Itália)
2022/07/15	Hope and Time in Premodern and Modern Utopia	22nd Conference of the Utopian Studies Society Europe University of Brighton (Brighton, Reino Unido)
2021/12/12	Exchanges of Public and Private Knowledges in a pre-Enlightenment Utopia Set in Terra Australis, part of the Panel: "Crossing the Public–Private Divide in Global Utopianism", organized by Liam Benison	21st Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, Europe (online via Zoom) University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2021/06/04	Dissimulation as a Form of Early Modern Privacy: A Utopian Perspective (online via Zoom)	Privacy Studies conference: "Early Modern Notions of Privacy and the Private" Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Dinamarca)
2021/05/15	Diplomacy and Go-Betweens in the Australian Aboriginal Land Rights Struggle (Guest Lecture via Zoom)	Modern History (MA course) taught by Dr. Renu Elizabeth Abraham O.P. Jindal Global University (Sonipat, Índia)
2021/02/23	Ten Sailors and Five 'Men of Esteem': Understanding a Dutch Account of 'Aboriginal Australia' in 1658	Maritime History & Culture Seminars National Maritime Museum (Royal Museums Greenwich) (London, Reino Unido)
2020/04/24	Utopia as a Source for Understanding Early Modern Privacy	Knowledge in the Making: Practices of Privacy Symposium, held online via Zoom, 24 April to 31 May Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Dinamarca)
2019/07/03	The Map View: Environmental Transformation in Early Modern Utopias	'Utopia, Dystopia and Climate Change', 20th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society Utopian Studies Society Europe (Prato, Itália)
2019/04/12	Food Consumption and Production in an Imagined and Material South Land	'More Meals to Come', Alimentopia International Conference Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Study (CETAPS), University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2018/09/15	Humanist Knowledge Practices in the Cartography of Terra Australis Incognita, part of a panel 'Craft Humanism in the Early Modern World’, convened by Dr. Maria Avxentevskaya, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin	Eighth Conference of the European Society for the History of Science European Society for the History of Science (London, Reino Unido)
2018/09/12	More in Terra Australis Incognita: Two Seventeenth-Century French Utopias	'Thomas More and History', Paris International Thomas More Seminar Amici Thomae Mori (Paris, França)
2018/05/26	At the Border of Knowledge in the Land of the Yued	Texts and Events across Borders', Sixth TEEME Conference Freie Universität Berlin (Berlin, Alemanha)
2017/04/28	Knowledge and Expectation in Early Modern Utopias Set in Terra Australis	38th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2016/07/09	Antipodean Desires and Fears in Early Modern Utopias Set in Terra Australis	Utopia 500 Utopian Studies Society Europe (Lisboa, Portugal)

Organização de evento

	Nome do evento Tipo de evento (Tipo de participação)	Instituição / Organização
2023/11/01 - 2023/11/20	Lecture by Dr Jelena Bakic: "Emotions of Complaint in Renaissance Italy: Voices from the Margins" (2023/11/20 - 2023/11/20) Outro (Outra)	Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2023/11/01 - 2023/11/20	Workshop led by Dr. Natacha Klein Käfer: How to Write a Book Proposal (2023/11/20 - 2023/11/20) Oficina (workshop) (Outra)	Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, Portugal
2020/07/01 - 2022/03/09	'Vestiges of Dialogue', 2nd Practices of Privacy Symposium. Call for papers: https://teol.ku.dk/privacy/join-us/call-for-publications/practices-of-privacy-vestiges-of-dialogue/ (2021/03/07 - 2022/03/09) Conferência (Coorganizador)	Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, Dinamarca
2016/06/15 - 2016/11/05	'Begin with an Object', Fifth TEEME Conference (2016/11/03 - 2016/11/05) Conferência (Coorganizador)	University of Kent School of English, Reino Unido

Curso / Disciplina lecionado

	Disciplina	Curso (Tipo)	Instituição / Organização
2023/09/28 - 2024/02/12	Languages and Literatures for Publishing and Digital Media	Bibliografia e biblioteconomia digitale (in Italian) (Bachelor)	Università degli Studi di Verona, Itália

Distinções

Prémio

1995	HB Higgins Scholarship for the Study of Poetry The University of Melbourne, Austrália
1993	Edith Derham Prize in Poetry The University of Melbourne, Austrália

Outra distinção

2021	Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships Seal of Excellence for project "PRIVUTOPIA" (101068613), 5 May. Horizon Europe Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships, Bélgica
2020	Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2020 Seal of Excellence for project "PRIVUTOPIA" (101033193), 26 March.