History is at School! — New educational programme from the IHC
Programme aims to familiarise students with historical research and its tools
Open call for the journal Aniki: New Challenges of Interactivity in Narrative Creation
Deadline: 15 February 2026
IHC welcomes eight new doctoral candidates supported by scholarships
The IHC supported applications for four different PhD Research Scholarships calls
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Open call for Twentieth Century Communism: History, Memory and the Past in Twentieth Century Communism
Deadline: 31 December 2025
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The two activities hosted by the IHC will take place on 25 November
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The book edited by Pedro Aires Oliveira, Fernando Tavares Pimenta, and Aurora Almada e Santos will be presented at the School of Arts and Humanities of
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The book edited by Pedro Aires Oliveira, Fernando Tavares Pimenta, and Aurora Almada e Santos will be presented at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, as part of the International Congress African Independences, by Marissa Moorman.
The Liberation of Portuguese Africa, 1961-1975
International Exile and Solidarity
No dia 10 de Dezembro, no Anfiteatro III da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, terá lugar a apresentação do livro The Liberation of Portuguese Africa, 1961-1975. International Exile and Solidarity (Palgrave, 2025), editado por Pedro Aires Oliveira, Fernando Tavares Pimenta e Aurora Almada e Santos.
Composta por 13 capítulos originais, a obra analisa as lutas de libertação que ocorreram nas colónias portuguesas de Angola, Moçambique, Guiné-Bissau, Cabo Verde e São Tomé e Príncipe na segunda metade do século XX, destacando a forma como estas desafiaram o colonialismo na esfera internacional, focando sobretudo as dimensões do exílio e da solidariedade internacional.
A apresentação estará a cargo da historiadora Marissa Moorman, da Universidade de Wisconsin-Madison, e contará com a presença dos editores e a moderação de Augusto Nascimento (CH — FLUL).
Será servido um beberete.
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Time
(Wednesday) 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Location
School of Arts and Humanities - University of Lisbon
Alameda da Universidade — 1600-214 Lisbon
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Several Institutions

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Workshop that seeks to examine critically the rich intellectual, political and cultural exchanges that took place in the context of revolution in and between Africa and Latin America. Intellectual
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Workshop that seeks to examine critically the rich intellectual, political and cultural exchanges that took place in the context of revolution in and between Africa and Latin America.
Intellectual Exchanges Between Revolutionary Africa and Latin America, 1950-1990
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the independence of Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe from Portuguese colonial rule, following the independence of Guinea-Bissau two years’ prior. The violent struggles for the liberation of Portuguese-speaking Africa were articulated with the broader project of the African revolution, decolonisation on the continent and the wider struggle for the liberation of the Third World. More-than-national politics were variously expressed in the forms of négritude, pan-Africanism, the anti-apartheid movement, Afro-Asian solidarity, the global workers’ movement and tri-continentalism.
This workshop seeks to examine critically the rich intellectual, political and cultural exchanges that took place in the context of revolution in and between Africa and Latin America, 1950-1990. We posit that this period was characterised by an energetic, if flawed, search for a theory and practice of liberation adequate to the project of revolution and decolonisation in the Third World. Our approach proposes to consider the critical exchanges of ideas, themes and concepts that informed and underpinned the projects of liberation in Africa and beyond.
Our aim is to explore how these interactions can nuance our historical understanding of revolutionary exchange and shape our present conceptions of revolution and liberation on the continent and beyond.
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Organisation:
Georgia Nasseh (University of Cambridge)
Giulia Dickmans (Freie Universität Berlin)
Raquel Ribeiro (NOVA FCSH)
Tom Stennett (Investigador independente)
Time
All Day (Monday)
Location
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Organizer
Institute of Contemporary History and CHAM - Centre for the Humanities, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities

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The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly encounter of the wider academic community of the project RESONANCE invested in thinking-with one key text or book a month. RESONANCE Reading
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The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly encounter of the wider academic community of the project RESONANCE invested in thinking-with one key text or book a month.
RESONANCE Reading Group
Session #1: There is no Unhappy Revolution, by Marcello Tarì
The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly encounter of the wider academic community of the project RESONANCE – a vibrant group of colleagues, friends, and contemporary cultural history aficionados invested in thinking-with one key text or book a month, or indeed, just that one key text or book, that one time on a sunny Monday or a rainy Wednesday. The reading group takes place either in-person (at NOVA University Lisbon) or online, over the lunch hour on a weekday. This is a bring-your-own-lunch event and, when in-person, the coffee and cookies are provided by the RESONANCE project.
The very first session of the RESONANCE Reading Group centres Marcello Tarì’s There is no Unhappy Revolution. This book traces the revolt to insurrection to revolution pipeline, proposing affective landscapes based on emotion, love, and friendship as essential instigators of revolutionary efforts – as if, as Fred Moten suggests, “revolution [was] the only happiness we might pursue.”
Join us on 15 December, 12 PM, at NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (Room B201), for this inaugural event.
Register by sending an email to Hélia Marçal at heliamarcal@fcsh.unl.pt, to receive more details and a PDF copy of the book.
Picture: Passion fruit, axial view, Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford, Wellcome Collection, United Kingdom (CC BY)
Time
(Monday) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Organizer
Institute of Contemporary History and Institute of Art History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities

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Late Fall Workshop co-organised by the IHC and Drexel University. It will, for the second year, analyse violence as a subject of history. Materialidades da violência, história e historiografia Este
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Late Fall Workshop co-organised by the IHC and Drexel University. It will, for the second year, analyse violence as a subject of history.
Materialidades da violência, história e historiografia
Este ano continuamos a analisar a violência enquanto objecto da história. Há poucos temas com o poder da violência para decidir a relevância de um estudo histórico. Quem se atreve a duvidar da importância de Auschwitz ou do forte de São Jorge da Mina? De forma simétrica, sabemos que negar o papel da violência na história tem consequências para o presente. É o caso da insistência em negar a identificação do Estado Novo com o fascismo. Os debates são justificadamente acesos quando se discute e compara o número de mortos, de presos torturados, ou de trabalhadores forçados. Mas escrever desde o Antropoceno incita-nos a considerar também violências históricas na forma de solos erodidos, incêndios florestais, grandes infraestruturas, processos de extinção ou epidemias. Afinal, como compreender Auschwitz e a sua violência ignorando que o projecto colonial nazi implicava a transformação ambiental de toda a Europa de Leste? Ou, mais perto, como discutir a violência do Estado Novo e ignorar os eucaliptos em latifúndios, os pinheiros nos baldios, as barragens alagando vales férteis, ou a multiplicação de bairros de lata?
Neste workshop, exploramos a materialidade da violência desde a história das ciências, da tecnologia e da história ambiental. Testa-se, por meio de uma concepção mais alargada de violência, a relevância historiográfica destes campos. Que formas históricas de violência emergem ao investigarmos humanos e não-humanos? Pode a atenção à violência de projectos de transformação ambiental e das suas formas de organização do trabalho pôr em causa a separação entre colónia e metrópole, ou entre colonização imperial e colonização interna? Que escalas temporais sugeridas pelos não-humanos (florestas, solos, betão, latas, …) revelam dinâmicas de violência tendencialmente ignoradas na historiografia? Que corpos de conhecimento (estatísticas, literatura, medicina, etnografia, …) constituíram a violência enquanto realidade com consequências históricas?; ou, dito de outra forma, qual a ontologia histórica da violência?
A participação neste workshop é aberta, mas necessita de inscrição prévia. Para participar, por favor, enviar um email para martamacedo@fcsh.unl.pt.
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Programa:
17 de Dezembro
09:30-10:30 | Frederico Ágoas, Ciência, confissão e a “Polícia das Famílias”: o Serviço Social e a arquitectura íntima do Estado inquiridor
10:40-11:40 | Marta Macedo, Marias da terra e do céu: materialidades da violência na Serra de Arga na década de 1940
11:50-12:50 | José Miguel Ferreira, A morte do silvicultor: natureza, violência e colonialismo nas florestas de Goa
14:30-15:30 | Sara Albuquerque, A produção de conhecimento científico entre violências: os casos das expedições de Frederico Welwitsch em Portugal e Angola
15:40-16:40 | Miguel Carmo, Grande sertão: Monchique. As paisagens de fogo das serras do Sul e os seus inimigos modernos
16:50-17:50 | Paulo Lima, A ‘guerra da reforma agrária’
18 de Dezembro
9:30-10:30 | Henrique Oliveira, Violência na paisagem: realojamentos na construção da ponte sobre o Tejo
10:40-11:40 | Maria do Mar Gago, Trás-os-Montes psicadélico: a cravagem do centeio e as bruxas como objecto histórico (1880-1960)
11:50-12:50 | Ricardo Roque, O império colonial dentro do panóptico tropical
14:30-15:30 | Elisa Lopes da Silva, Os trabalhos do arroz: ranchos migratórios, violência e libertação no Sado
15:40-16:40 | Tiago Saraiva, Perspetivismo algarvio: indígenas e peixes em revolução
16:50-17:50 | Conclusões
Time
17 (Wednesday) 9:30 am - 18 (Thursday) 5:50 pm
Organizer
Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and Drexel University
Publications
Review of ‘Women’s History at the Cutting Edge’
Giulia Strippoli writes a critical review of the book Women’s History at the Cutting Edge, edited by Teresa Bertilotti, on women’s history.
Review of ‘Subterranean Fanon’
Manuela Ribeiro Sanches writes a critical review of the book Subterranean Fanon, by Gavin Arnall, on Frantz Fanon.
On the debates on populism
Paper by Fernando Dores Costa, published in the journal Práticas da História, where he analyses the phenomenon of populism.
Administrar para manter o regime
Chapter by Ana Carina Azevedo, included in the book Construção do Estado, Movimentos Sociais e Economia Política, about public administration reform.
A era dos congressos
Chapter by Joana Dias Pereira, included in the book Construção do Estado, Movimentos Sociais e Economia Política, about the associative movement and liberalism.
Construção do Estado, Movimentos Sociais e Economia Política
Book coordinated by Joana Dias Pereira et al. about the processes of construction of the Contemporary State and its articulation with social movements.
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History is at School! — New educational programme from the IHC
Dec 2, 2025
Programme aims to familiarise students with historical research and its tools
‘Our Father – The Last Days of a Dictator’ wins three awards
Nov 27, 2025
received three awards at the Caminhos do Cinema Português festival
IHC at Science and Technology Week 2025
Nov 19, 2025
The two activities hosted by the IHC will take place on 25 November
Opportunities
Call for applicants — Three-Years Research Contracts
Dec 15
Deadline (IHC): 15 December 2025
PhD Studentship — STEXEU
Nov 28
Deadline: 28 November 2025

