Curriculum Vitae
Giacomo Mantovan
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Giacomo Mantovan
Citation names
- Mantovan, Giacomo
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 4A11-34CD-03FC
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0001-5471-2546
Addresses
- Av. das Forças Armadas, Ed. ISCTE-IUL Portugal, 1649-026, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Italian (Mother tongue) | |||||
| French | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| English | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) |
| Portuguese | Advanced (C1) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Advanced (C1) | Proficiency (C2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Proficiency (C2) | Advanced (C1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
|---|---|---|
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2015/09/08
Concluded
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Social Anthropology (Doctorat)
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
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Higest Honours |
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2007/09/05
Concluded
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Santé, Population, Politiques Sociales (Master)
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
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17/20 |
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2005/12/05
Concluded
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Scienze e tecniche dell'interculturalità (Laurea)
Major in Antropologia culturale
Università degli Studi di Trieste Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Italy
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110/110 cum laude |
Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/06/01 - 2025/05/30 | Researcher (Research) | Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
| Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal | ||
| 2018/01/01 - 2018/07/31 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | The University of Edinburgh The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, United Kingdom |
| The University of Edinburgh The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, United Kingdom | ||
| 2017/09/01 - 2017/12/31 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Stanford University Department of Anthropology, United States |
| Stanford University Department of Anthropology, United States | ||
| 2016/09/01 - 2017/06/30 | Postdoc (Research) | International Institute for Asian Studies, Netherlands |
| International Institute for Asian Studies, Netherlands |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2018/09/01 - 2019/01/31 | Assistant Professor (University Teacher) | Université Paris-Nanterre, France |
| Université Paris-Nanterre, France |
Positions / Appointments
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/07/07 - Current | Coordinator of the research group Livelihoods, Politics and Inequalities | Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
| Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/06/01 - 2025/05/31 | A Future After Violence: Life Projects of Sri Lankan Tamil Youth
CEECIND/03499/2017/CP1398/CT0003
Researcher
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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| 2018/01/01 - 2018/07/30 | ‘They Were Kings…’: The Silent Decline of Former Tamil Tiger Cadres Exiled in France
has no code
Invited Scientist Fellow
The University of Edinburgh The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, United Kingdom
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The University of Edinburgh The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities
Concluded
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| 2017/09/01 - 2017/12/31 | Memory, Violence, and Identity in Life Histories of Sri Lankan Tamils in France
has no code
Invited Scientist Fellow
Stanford University Department of Anthropology, United States
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France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Concluded
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| 2016/09/01 - 2017/06/30 | "They Were Kings": The Silent Decline of Former Tamil Tigers Cadres Exiled in France
has no code
Post-doc Fellow
International Institute for Asian Studies, Netherlands
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International Institute for Asian Studies
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/06/01 - 2025/05/31 | Um futuro depois da violência: projetos de vida da juventude Tamil do Sri Lanka
CEECIND/03499/2017
Principal investigator
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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FCT
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
| Book |
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| Book chapter |
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| Journal article |
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| Journal issue |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2024/07/24 | From Battlefields to 'Inner Emigration': Reintegration into Civilian Life of LTTE Fighters | 18th EASA Biennial Conference
University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
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| 2023/11/06 | « The Great Heroes’ Day is much holier for us than religion ». The commemoration of martyrs in the post-war Tamil communities | “Religiosity, Violence, Political Recompositions: Reflections from Sri Lanka and its Diasporas”
Università di Catania (Catania, Italy)
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| 2023/06/29 | The ‘Great Heroes’ Day’, from Jaffna to the diaspora: The life of a heritage after its destruction | Heritage and Religion in South Asia and its Diasporas: Frictions, Entanglements and Reconfigurations
CRIA (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2023/06/26 | Le difficile adieu aux armes des combattants des LTTE | 3eme édition: Rencontres de la science politique. Panel: "Conflits, crises et ruptures sociales"
Sciences Po (Paris, France)
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| 2022/05/27 | Creating the New Men and Women Among the LTTE: Body, Emotions and Discipline in the Military Training Camps | Seminário CRIA Círculo de Estudos da Ásia do Sul
CRIA ISCTE-IUL (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2022/01/26 | Identité corporelle, discipline, et violence dans les camps d'entraînement des LTTE | Seminaire EHESS "Histoire, biographie et écriture de soi en Asie du Sud"
Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) (Paris, France)
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| 2021/11/17 | Une défaite, des formes de résistance mémorielle multiples. Enjeux de la prolifération des récits parmi les militants LTTE en diaspora | Mémoires des événements violents & mobilisations collectives
Institut des sciences sociales du politiques, Université Nanterre Paris (Nanterre, France)
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| 2021/04/07 | Une défaite, des formes de résistance mémorielle multiples. Enjeux de la prolifération des récits parmi les militants LTTE en diaspora. | Mémoires en résistance(s)
Association belge francophone de science politique (On-line, Belgium)
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| 2020/07/22 | ’They died completely outside of their culture’. The cultural implications of the Tamil Tigers’ defeat | 16th EASA Biannual Conference, Virtual Lisbon conference, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and ICS-Institute of Social
Sciences, University of Lisbon,
EASA (Lisboa)
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| 2019/07/19 | In search of recognition. The demobilization and exile of Tamil Tiger fighters in Paris | 10th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)
(Leiden)
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| 2019/05/02 | An Untold Experience of the War? Politics of Remembrance among former Tamil Tigers Exiled in France | ASN 24th Annual World Convention, Columbia University, New York
(New York, United States)
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| 2019/01/15 | « Devenir un Tigre. Discipline et incorporation dans les camps d’entrainement militaire des Tigres tamouls (Sri Lanka) » | Séminaire d’anthropologie du LESC
Université Paris-Nanterre (Nanterre, France)
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| 2018/12/18 | « Le récit de vie pour la demande d’asile : l’exemple des Tamouls sri lankais. Enquête sur un bureau privé pour la préparation des récits de vie pour la demande d’asile des Tamouls » | Atelier de l’accès aux droits fondamentaux
Mairie de Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis, France)
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| 2018/11/16 | « ‘Faites entrer le témoin !’. Le témoignage contraint à travers le parcours de demandeur d’asile », | roudtable « Témoigner de l’expérience, des mémoires et des héritages des migrations »
Centre du patrimoine arménien (Valence, France)
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| 2018/08/14 | « Transformations in the experience and social meaning of the warrior body: from Tamil Tiger training camps to exile in France » | 15th EASA Biennial Conference
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (Stockholm , Sweden)
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| 2018/06/06 | « Embodiment and discipline: the process of becoming a Tamil Tiger» |
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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| 2017/07/21 | A Funerary Practice as a Construction of Diasporic Memory: The Commemoration of LTTE Martyrs in Paris | 10th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)
International Institute for Asian Studies (Ching Mai, Thailand)
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| 2017/06/20 | Becoming a Tiger, forever: Body, Emotions, and Identity in the narratives of Tamil Fighters Exiled in France | Lunch Lecture
International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden, Netherlands)
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| 2016/05/25 | 'They were kings…’: The farewell to arms of former Tamil Tiger fighters in exile in France | 5th Roundtable on Contemporary Sri Lanka “Sri Lanka in Transition: Polity, Society, Economy
University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
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| 2016/05/12 | Le corps du combattant et le corps violenté. Réflexions sur l’incorporation de l’histoire d’ex-combattants des Tigres tamouls | La chair de l’Asie. Corps, contraintes et rationalisation des individus au sein des societés orientales
Aix-Marseille Université (Marseille, France)
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| 2016/05 | Migrations des Tamouls de Sri Lanka: de la violence de l’histoire aux récits du sujet | Roudtable “Migrations des Tamouls de Sri Lanka: de la violence de l’histoire aux récits du sujet
INALCO (Paris, France)
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| 2016/03/31 | L’usage ‘tactique’ de l’histoire collective. Ethnographie d’une agence privée d’’aide au récit’ pour la demande d’asile de Tamouls sri lankais en France | Conference “Récits d’exilés. Projets, usages, lectures”
MSHS Poitiers (Poitiers, France)
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| 2016/02/18 | ’Ils ne peuvent même pas tenter de raconter la vérité… ils ont tellement peur’. La difficile inscription dans un discours public des mémoires des rescapés de la guerre civile sri-lankaise | seminar ‘Mémoires et patrimonialisations des migrations’
EHESS (Paris, France)
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| 2015/11/21 | Authority, Trust and Kinship in the LTTE: An Analysis of the Movement’s Leadership from the Standpoint of its Former Fighters | annual meeting of South Asian Anthropologist’ Group (SAAG)
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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| 2015/09/11 | The Therapeutic Care of Asylum Seekers: Health, Violence and the Sense of Justice in a Medical Centre for the Exiled in Paris | international conference ‘Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogating Theory, Policy and Practice’ organised by the European
Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) – Medical Anthropology Network
University of Sussex (Brighton, United Kingdom)
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| 2015/07/01 | Les émotions entre mesure et démesure. La construction de soi d’une ex-combattante des Tigres tamouls exilée en France | international conference organised by the Association française d’ethnologie et d’anthropologie (AFEA)
Université de Toulouse – Jean Jaurès (Toulouse, France)
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| 2015/06/02 | Personne dans la communauté n’est venu me dire que je suis de cette caste-là et que je dois souffrir. C’est toi, Papa, qui me l’as dit”. Réflexions sur l’héritage et les temporalités de l’histoire d’un révolutionnaire tamoul et de son fils exilés en France | 12th annual conference of the Maison de l’archéologie et de l’ethnologie (MAE) ‘Transitions historiques. Rythmes, crises,
héritages’,
Université Paris Nanterre (nanterre, France)
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| 2015/05/11 | Vivre pour construire la nation tamoule. Ethnographie des parcours de vie d’ex-combattants des Tigres tamouls exilés en France | Workshop for Ph.D. students of the CEIAS
EHESS (Paris, France)
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| 2014/07/23 | Between Subjectivisation and Resistance: The Relationship between Sri Lankan Asylum Seekers and Asylum Courts in France | 23rd European Conference on South Asian Studies
University of Zurich (zurich, Switzerland)
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| 2014/06/19 | Formes des récits et expériences morales des demandeurs d’asile Tamouls sri lankais en France | conference ‘Réfugiés, ville, santé mentale’
INALCO (Paris, France)
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| 2013/11/08 | Comment construire et développer un sujet de thèse. Cheminement d’une thèse sur les récits de vie des Tamouls sri lankais en France | seminar ‘Construire une histoire de la santé publique’
EHESS (Paris, France)
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| 2013/05/13 | Comment mener un ‘terrain sensible’ ? Enjeux éthiques et épistémologiques | seminar Anthopologie des migrations
Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis (Paris, France)
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| 2012/05/10 | Secret, frontières, intersubjectivité: dialogues avec les anciens militants des Tigres tamouls en France | seminar ‘Anthropologie des migrations’
Université Paris 8 Saint-Denis (Saint-Denis, France)
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| 2011/11/23 | Les récits de résistance: un chemin pour négocier sa place dans la société | ‘11th seminar of the Young Researchers of the AJEI’
EHESS (Toulouse, France)
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| 2011/06/01 | De l’indicible au dicible. Ethnographie des récits de vie des Tamouls sri lankais en France | Workshop for the Ph.D. students of CEIAS
EHESS (Paris, France)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2022/09/10 - 2023/06/30 | "C'est le mariage qui fait le couple". L'alliance matrimoniale : une porte d'entrée dans la communauté. Portraits croisés
de trois jeunes sikhs liégeois : quel partenaire pour le mariage ?
Co-supervisor
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Master 2, "Anthropologie et ethnologie" (Master)
Université Paris Cité, France
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| 2021/10/01 - 2022/06/30 | Le mariage arrangé en héritage. L'alliance matrimoniale chez les jeunes Tamouls, l'exemple de la France
Co-supervisor
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Master 1, Anthropologie et Ethnologie (Master)
Université Paris Cité, France
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
|---|---|---|
| 2024/05/28 - Current | Seminario da Professora Paula Lacerda (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro) “A política de indenizações como forma de
reparação de direitos humanos no Brasil: Estado, grandes empresas e mobilização social” (2024/06/28)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2020/07/21 - Current | Panel P127 « Living through defeat: new anthropological insights on defeat in postconflict societies » (With Michèle Baussant),
EASA Biannual Conference, Virtual Lisbon conference, ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and ICS-Institute of Social Sciences,
University of Lisbon. (2020/09/21)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2024/09/23 - 2025/05/30 | Seminários do grupo de investigação Quotidianos, Políticas e Desigualdades. Ciclo anual de 9 seminários. (2024/09/23 - 2025/05/30)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
| 2023/10/27 - 2024/04/12 | Seminários do grupo de investigação Quotidianos, Políticas e Desigualdades. Ciclo anual de seis seminários. (2023/10/27 - 2024/04/12)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
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Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
| 2017/07/20 - 2017/07/23 | Panel “On the Meanings of Marginalization: Memories, Histories, and Strategies among South Asian Diasporas” (2017/07/20 - 2017/07/23)
Conference (Co-organisor)
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International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Netherlands |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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|---|---|---|
| 2023/05/30 - Current | Mesa-redonda entre investigadores do CRIA.
Round table
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“Do CRIA-ISCTE para o Mundo: Caminhos, Futuros e Possibilidades para a Antropologia”
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023/10/27 - 2023/10/27 | MuMundos quotidianos de bem-estar na Europa do Sul: necessidades humanas e vidas sustentáveis | ISCTE-IUL |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
|---|---|---|
| 2019/07/31 - Current | American Ethnologist | |
| 2022/09/15 - 2022/10/24 | Ethnologie française | PUF |
Distinctions
Award
| 2014 | EASAS Research Student Award
EASAS [European Association for South Asian Studies], Germany
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