Annual meeting of the IHC aiming to identify and discuss the new challenges for the study of the contemporary period and where the new Imprensa de História Contemporânea will be launched.

Futuros da História — História Contemporânea
[Futures of History — Contemporary History]

This edition of the annual “Futuros da História” meeting is entirely dedicated to identifying and discussing the new challenges facing researchers specialising in the study of the contemporary period. Starting in 2019, the Institute of Contemporary History, within the framework of its strategic project, will host five new thematic lines of research, which will seek to build bridges between the different research groups, as well as bring the Institute closer to colleagues from other national and international centres of research, both in the field of History and in other disciplines, from the Social Sciences to the Natural Sciences.

During the course of the day, a part of the programme will be devoted exclusively to the presentation of these new thematic lines and to the discussion of the possibilities they open up. There will also be a round-table specifically dedicated to discussing the state of research around Contemporary Portugal, as well as a conference on the relations between historians and states over the last decades. The day will end with the launch of the first books to be published by the newly created Imprensa de História Contemporânea [Contemporary History Press].

PROGRAMME

09h30 | Opening by the IHC Board

09h45-11h15 | IHC’s New Thematic Lines

Auditorium – Uses of the Past: Memory and Cultural Heritage — With Paula Godinho (coordinator, IHC – NOVA FCSH) and Miguel Cardina (CES-UC).

Multimedia Room – Colonialism, Anti-Colonialism, and Post-Colonialism: Rethinking Empires and their Aftermaths — With Pedro Aires Oliveira (coordinator, IHC – NOVA FCSH) and Cristina Nogueira da Silva (CEDIS – NOVA Direito)

Coffee break

11h30-13h00 | A História do Portugal Contemporâneo, Estado da Questão — Round-table with António Costa Pinto (ICS-ULisboa), Fátima Sá e Melo Ferreira (ISCTE-IUL), and Fernando Rosas (IHC – NOVA FCSH).

Lunch break

14h45-16h15 | Auditorium – State-sponsored History after 1945 — Lecture by Berber Bevernage (Ghent University).

Coffee break

16h30-18h00 | IHC’s New Thematic Lines

Auditorium – Modern Mediations: Arts, Technology, and Communication — With Tiago Baptista (member, Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema, IHC – NOVA FCSH) and Manuel Deniz Silva (INETmd-NOVA).

Multimedia Room – Precarious Worlds and Sustainability: Nature, Health, and Work — With Ana Isabel Queiroz (coordinator, IHC – NOVA FCSH) and Marco Armiero (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden).

Training Room – Connected Histories: State-Building, Social Movements and Political Economy — With Manuel Loff (coordinator, IHC – NOVA FCSH) and João Rodrigues (CES-UC).

18h00 | Launch of the Imprensa de História Contemporânea, by Paulo Jorge Fernandes (IHC – NOVA FCSH).

A Port wine will be served

📎   Download the summary programme HERE (PDF)

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Image: Delacroix no 25 April (Nikias Skapinakis)