Contratos de Pós-Doutoramento Marie Skłodowska-Curie

Prazo de candidatura (IHC): 1 de Junho de 2026
Pré-selecção: 17 de Junho de 2026
Prazo de candidatura (MSCA): 9 Setembro de 2026
Local de trabalho: Instituto de História Contemporânea — NOVA FCSH ou Universidade de Évora
The Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), a leading Portuguese research centre in the field of Modern and Contemporary History, welcomes applications for Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA PFs), acting as host institution, from researchers interested in developing their studies of the past in the following main areas — that correspond to our four Research Groups:
- Political History – Regimes, Transition, and Memory
- Economy and Society – State, Classes, and Gender
- Culture – Power, Mediations, and the Arts
- History of Science, Technology, and the Environment
The IHC has facilities both at NOVA University Lisbon and at the University of Évora. We are also a member of IN2PAST, the Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory, and the host of the Digital Humanities Lab, an interdisciplinary space where knowledge in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities converges with methodologies from the Computational Sciences. The IHC thus fosters interdisciplinary approaches and covers a wide range of topics concerning the conceptualisation, contextualisation, and interpretation of the historical reality for the period between the eighteenth century and the present.
With a strong internationalisation strategy, we believe at the IHC that it is necessary to overcome the limits of methodological nationalism and foster the critical practice of comparative, transnational, and global history, as well as to consider the centrality of the colonial and anti-colonial question for the history of the contemporary world.
Working at the IHC is to be part of a multicultural, creative, collaborative, and publicly engaged environment that gathers approximately 120 PhD researchers and 50 doctoral candidates. As a modern and contemporary history research centre working on a broad range of topics, we regularly collaborate with museums, archives, city councils, high schools, and media outlets.
We welcome applications for both the European and Global Postdoctoral Fellowships. Applicants with a relevant track-record of securing funding for their research activities are especially welcomed. Fellows are expected to be active researchers in regular residence at the IHC, participating in the intellectual life of the Institute..
To apply, please send us the following documents and information:
- Title and short summary of the work plan, explaining the objectives of the proposal and how they will be achieved (written in English, max. 2500 characters, spaces included);
- A detailed Curriculum vitae;
- A motivation letter explaining your trajectory in the last five years and explaining the relevance of your achievements (max. 5000 characters, spaces included);
- A recommendation letter from a senior scholar;
- One copy of a relevant publication.
The MSCA PFs are aimed at researchers holding a PhD who wish to carry out their research activities abroad, acquire new skills and develop their careers. Interested researchers:
- should have a PhD degree at the time of the deadline for applications;
- must have a maximum of eight years experience in research, from the date of the award of their PhD degree;
- should comply with mobility rules: they must not have resided or carried out their main activity in the country of the beneficiary (for European Postdoctoral Fellowships), or the host organisation for the outgoing phase (for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships) for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline.
Please submit your application materials to Rosa Fina via the email ihc.concursos@fcsh.unl.pt.
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Detalhes do Evento
Seminário de investigação que procura alargar o campo dos estudos sobre o petróleo para além das narrativas, geografias e fronteiras disciplinares estabelecidas, dando maior destaque às perspetivas do Sul Global e
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Detalhes do Evento
Seminário de investigação que procura alargar o campo dos estudos sobre o petróleo para além das narrativas, geografias e fronteiras disciplinares estabelecidas, dando maior destaque às perspetivas do Sul Global e de outros locais de extracção e resistência.
Mind the Gap III:
Unearthing Petromodernity: Oil Studies in the Anthropocene
Online Research Seminar
The rise of fossil fuels has been central to the political, economic, cultural, and material transformations of the past two centuries, yet the forms of power, knowledge, and life enabled by carbon energy often remain analytically invisible. As we confront the converging crises of the Anthropocene, the need to rethink the centrality of fossil fuels to modern life has never been more urgent.
At a moment when toxic landscapes, resource frontiers, and environmental inequality reveal the uneven geographies of fossil modernity, the humanities and social sciences are reorienting analytical attention toward the energetic foundations of modern life. From pipelines and refineries to plastics and everyday petrochemical products, the material properties of oil have fundamentally shaped modern infrastructures and forms of life. What forms of political and social power are created through fossil fuel industries? How have fossil fuels shaped modern societies, their economic models, governmental regimes, everyday lives? How have they contributed to uneven global geographies rooted in colonialism and capitalism? What kinds of transitions to post-carbon futures are possible?
Bringing together approaches from history, anthropology, political ecology, and geography, we seek to expand the field of oil studies beyond established narratives, geographies, and disciplinary boundaries, amplifying perspectives from the Global South and other sites of extraction and resistance.
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Programme:
Every fortnight we will meet online to discuss an article or book chapter circulated in advance. The sessions will start with a 20–30 minute presentation, followed by discussion. The sessions will take place on Mondays at 2PM.
We will explore key concepts such as petro-culture, carbon democracy, extractivism, fossil capital, energy regimes, and transition imaginaries, examining how energy dependence shapes modern subjectivities, infrastructures, economies, and ecological futures. The texts will be shared with participants in advance.
Everyone is welcome.
To register, please fill out the online form. After registering you will receive the readings and access information ahead of each session.
For more information, please write to unearthingpetromodernity@proton.me.
30 March | Timothy Mitchell, Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil. Selected chapter TBA (Verso, 2011)
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA)
Focus: How fossil fuels structured democratic politics, labour power and modern governance
13 April | Adam Hanieh, “Petrochemical Empire: The Geo-Politics of Fossil-Fuelled Production“ New Left Review (139)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Global production networks, the Gulf region and the restructuring of capitalism through petrochemicals
27 April | Carola Hein (ed.), Oil Spaces: Exploring the Global Petroleumscape. Chapter 8: Peyerl, D. “Building Brazil’s Petroleumscape on Land and Sea: Infrastructure, Expertise, and Technology” (Routledge, 2022)
Henrique Oliveira (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Infrastructure, territorial development and the spatial materiality of oil
11 May | Stephanie LeMenager, Living Oil: Petroleum Culture in the American Century. Selected chapter TBA (Oxford University Pres, 2014)
Raquel Ribeiro (CHAM — NOVA FCSH)
Focus: Oil, media, culture, and everyday life in twentieth-century society
25 May | Appel, Mason & Watts (Eds.), Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas. Introduction: “Oil Talk” (Cornell University Press, 2015)
Amedeo Policante (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Anthropological and political-economic perspectives on oil extraction and everyday life
8 June | Alice Mah, Petrochemical Planet: Multiscalar Battles of Industrial Transformation. Chapter 2: “Enduring Toxic Injustice and Fenceline Mobilizations” (Duke University Press, 2023)
João Pedro Santos (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Environmental justice, pollution, and grassroots activism around petrochemical industries
22 June | Chelsea Schields, Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean. Introduction and Chapter 1. “Crude Bargains” (University of California Press, 2023)
Anita Buhin (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Oil economies, intimacy, and social relations in offshore extraction zones
6 July | Tim Di Muzio & Matt Dow, “Global capitalism and oil“ in Handbook on Oil and International Relations (Edward Elgar Publishing , 2022)
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA), Amedeo Policante & Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Focus: Oil in international relations, financialization and the structure of global capitalism
Organisation:
Davide Scarso (CIUHCT — FCT NOVA)
Amedeo Policante (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Tempo
(Segunda-feira) 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Localização
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Plataforma Zoom
Organizador
Instituto de História Contemporânea — Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa e Centro Interuniversitário de História das Ciências e da Tecnologia
Notícias
Marta Pinto Machado em dose dupla em Lisboa: MNAC e CCCV
Mai 14, 2026
A exposição “Ceci n’est Pas Francisco” está patente no MNAC e vai-se estender ao CCCV
Ainda há VINCULUM na Madeira
Mai 12, 2026
O “Tombo I da Igreja de Machico” vai ser o mote para uma série de eventos culturais
Nuno Silas expõe no MUHNAC
Abr 29, 2026
É um dos curadores da exposição “Olhares Críticos no Arquivo Colonial – Sombras e Memórias”
