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This meeting seeks to encourage the participation and sharing of ideas calling on the voice of workers and the power of archives as a living tool for knowledge. We
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This meeting seeks to encourage the participation and sharing of ideas calling on the voice of workers and the power of archives as a living tool for knowledge.
We are with you at home
Domestic work and collective action — Archives, memories, testimonies
In recent decades, the formation of a global economy of care and domestic services has become one of the central elements in understanding the transformations of work in capitalist societies (Ehrenreich and Hochschild, 2002; Lutz, 2011). This process of “international division of reproductive labour” (Parreñas, 2001; Anderson, 2007) is an example of how historical inequalities have been reconfigured and deepened in the transition from colonial to postcolonial contexts (Cox, 2006; Sartri, 2008). The absence of public care policies, combined with labour market deregulation and labour shortages in the sector, has produced a scenario of labour and social precariousness in which gender, ethnicity and class intersect. Employers’ preference for migrant workers—often without residence permits—has allowed the formation of a new servile class, characterised by fragile ties, an almost complete absence of rights and low wages (Giordano, 2022).
This context of structural vulnerability fuels the idea that domestic and care work is marked by social invisibility and a supposed inability to mobilise collectively. However, this interpretation tends to obscure the long history of resistance and organisational experiences led by these workers. Since the 19th century, multiple examples of labour demands and struggles against oppressive practices demonstrate that the sector, far from being disorganised, has been the scene of various forms of mobilisation for better working conditions (Anderson, 2001; Boris and Nadassen, 2008; Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, 2010). To recover and reflect on this historical trajectory is not only an exercise of remembrance, but a necessary step to reinscribe domestic and care work in the global history of labour struggles, challenging narratives that seek to naturalise its subalternity.
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DOMESTIC AND ARCHIVAL WORK
The title of this meeting is taken from a letter sent by a domestic worker to her union, kept in an archive, with no date, no sender or recipient, only a handwritten note: archive. It reads: ‘And never think you are alone, we are with you in the house where we work.’
We took inspiration for this meeting from this short excerpt, part of a text that describes, in the first person, the early migration to the city of Lisbon to work in someone else’s home at the age of seven.
Work on the archives of women workers’ organisations and the increased focus on trade unionism in the domestic service sector has received growing attention in recent years, throughout the world, partly driven by a renewed interest in the intersection of gender, class and migration inequalities in the sphere of paid domestic work. At this meeting, which will take place on 6 and 7 February 2026 in Lisbon, we are opening a space for, based on the project A Voz das Trabalhadoras (The Voice of Women Workers: The Archives of the Domestic Service Union [1974-1992]), to gather contributions from different geographical areas and fields of practice that intersect around domestic work, care and cleaning — and their articulation with forms of collective action, cooperativism, trade unionism, and memory construction.
Thus, with immersion in trade union archives and experiences of self-management and cooperativism in domestic service as our main starting point, we invite submissions of proposals that focus on the various repertoires of organisation and struggle adopted by workers in this sector/activity, focusing on oral history or archival research, the narration of experiences and self-representations of working conditions and contexts.
A TRANSNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY DIALOGUE
Seeking to establish a transnational and interdisciplinary dialogue on these experiences, contributions are welcome in the following areas:
- Archival practices of/on domestic work;
- Migratory flows, citizenship, gender, and racialisation in domestic, cleaning, and care work;
- Collective action, cooperativism, and trade unionism in domestic work.
This meeting seeks to encourage the participation and sharing of ideas among activists, artists, researchers, workers and trade unions — calling on the voice of workers and the power of archives as a living tool for knowledge, learning and transformation.
Call for papers
We therefore invite proposals from different disciplinary fields and with different methodological approaches, welcoming the intersection of perspectives. The Meeting welcomes proposals from:
a) artists (performance, theatre, audiovisual);
b) researchers, archivists, activists and students;
c) domestic and care workers (collectives, cooperatives, trade unions)
Who, where, how?
Send short abstracts (max. 500 words) with a brief biography by 10 November 2025. Submissions to: encontro.trabalhodomestico2026@gmail.com.
Accepted languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English.
Venues: NOVA FCSH, Cape Verde Cultural Centre (Lisbon)
Organisation: CICS.NOVA and IHC
>> Download the call for papers (PDF) <<
Organising Committee
Ackssana Silva
Elsa Nogueira
Inês Brasão
José Soeiro
Mafalda Araújo
Nuno Ferreira Dias
Time
6 (Friday) 9:00 am - 7 (Saturday) 7:00 pm
Location
NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and Cabo Verde Cultural Centre
Organizer
Institute of Contemporary History and CICS.NOVA — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities

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Continuing the celebration of the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, this cycle proposes to reflect on his multiple legacies, from the anti-racist struggle to decolonisation movements, as well as his
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Continuing the celebration of the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, this cycle proposes to reflect on his multiple legacies, from the anti-racist struggle to decolonisation movements, as well as his work as a psychiatrist.
Frantz Fanon | Ciclo de Cinema 2026
Dando continuidade à celebração do centenário do nascimento de Frantz Fanon, este ciclo propõe reflectir sobre os seus múltiplos legados, desde a luta anti-racista aos movimentos de descolonização, passando ainda pela sua actividade como psiquiatra – intimamente entrelaçada com as duas outras vertentes. Já na sua primeira obra Pele negra, máscaras brancas (1952), o cinema ocupa um espaço marginal mas não menos decisivo no que diz respeito a questões de representação, tendo um lugar central nas terapias alternativas que Fanon viria a introduzir no Hospital Psiquiátrico de Blida-Joinville, na Argélia, enquanto Médico-chefe de serviço entre 1953 e 1956. A leitura de Fanon revela-se fundamental não só para a compreensão do contexto histórico em que surgiu, com as suas ramificações entre os movimentos de libertação e as causas do chamado Terceiro Mundo nas décadas de 1960 e 1970, mas sobretudo na luta pelos direitos de grupos racializados. Todas estas questões voltam a ecoar no século XXI, quer em movimentos sociais que reivindicam uma cidadania efectivamente igualitária, quer na discussão sobre a urgência da descolonização dos saberes e das instituições. Como ler Fanon, hoje, a partir de Portugal? Qual o papel das instituições e dos diferentes movimentos na sua recepção? Qual a relevância da sua obra para a nossa contemporaneidade, tendo em conta a complexidade das suas diferentes vertentes – anti-colonial, anti-racista, terapêutica – e a reivindicação para se “sair da grande noite” do colonialismo?
À projecção dos filmes segue-se uma conversa com convidados/as e debate.
As sessões 1 a 4 decorrem na Casa do Comum; a sessão 5 decorre no Cinema Fernando Lopes.
Os filmes são legendados em inglês.
Organização: Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, Miguel Ribeiro e Sofia Victorino, com o IHC —NOVA FCSH
>> Descarregar o programa do ciclo (PDF) <<
Sessão 4 | Sábado, 7 Fevereiro, 16:00
La Hora de los Hornos. Parte 1: Neo-colonialismo e Violência, 1968, Fernando E. Solanas, Octavio Getino, 1966-68, Argentina, 85’
Produzido pelo Grupo Cine Liberación nos anos que antecederam a chamada Guerra Suja, A Hora dos Fornos foi ao mesmo tempo cinema inovador e manifesto guerrilheiro pela queda da ditadura argentina. Combinando imagens de actualidade que retratam a agitação socio-política entre 1945 e 1968 com testemunhos de militantes peronistas e de figuras revolucionárias como José Martí, Che Guevara, Frantz Fanon e José Carlos Mariátegui, o filme assumiu-se como ferramenta de resistência e de mobilização socialista. Exibido clandestinamente perante públicos que interrompiam as sessões para debater, tornou-se obra-chave do chamado Third Cinema, conceito defendido por Fernando Solanas e Octavio Getino em oposição ao modelo comercial de Hollywood. Dividido em catorze capítulos, a sua influência estendeu-se a cineastas e coletivos empenhados na transformação política, de Chris Marker ao Grupo Dziga Vertov e a Patricio Guzmán.
Conversa com Luís Trindade e Raquel Ribeiro
Fotografia: Frantz Fanon numa conferência de imprensa durante um congresso de escritores em Tunes, 1959 (Frantz Fanon Archives / IMEC)
Time
(Saturday) 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and Casa do Comum

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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 #2: Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement, by André Lepecki
The RESONANCE Reading Group is a monthly meeting that brings together members of the academic community, colleagues, friends, and enthusiasts of contemporary cultural history to reflect on and discuss a fundamental text or book. It is part of the project RESONANCE — Epistemologies for the Documentation of Affect and Becoming in Cultural Manifestations in Performance (1969-1979). This group meets in person at NOVA FCSH or online, during lunchtime on a weekday. Each participant brings their own lunch, and for in-person sessions, coffee and biscuits are kindly provided by the project.
The second session of the RESONANCE Reading Group focuses on Chapter 5 of the book Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement, by André Lepecki. The chapter — “Stumbling Dance: William Pope.L’s Crawls” — continues Lepecki’s exploration of modernity’s temporality, rhythm, and kinetics. This is a fundamental reading on the politics of space and the public sphere through and with performance and dance. This reading group is going to be led by Sílvia Pinto Coelho (ICNOVA, NOVA FCSH).
You can register by emailing Hélia Marçal at heliamarcal@fcsh.unl.pt, to receive an online meeting link and a PDF copy of the chapter.
More information about the RESONANCE project here.
Picture: Tomato, sagittal view, MRI. Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford, Wellcome Collection, United Kingdom (CC BY)
The RESONANCE project is supported by the Programa Regional Lisboa 2030, Portugal 2030 and the European Union (LISBOA2030-FEDER-00914500). This work is also co-funded by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under the reference 2023.17624.ICDT (DOI: https://doi.org/10.54499/2023.17624.ICDT).
Time
(Monday) 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Location
Link to be provided to registered participants
Zoom
Organizer
Institute of Contemporary History, IHA, CESEM, ICNOVA e IFILNOVA — NOVA FCSH

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Research seminar that aims to establish a dialogue between different thematic and methodological proposals that deal with football from a socio-historical perspective. Futebol, Classe e Território: Perspectivas históricas
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Research seminar that aims to establish a dialogue between different thematic and methodological proposals that deal with football from a socio-historical perspective.
Futebol, Classe e Território:
Perspectivas históricas e transformações sócio-espaciais
O presente seminário de investigação pretende estabelecer o diálogo entre diferentes propostas temáticas e metodológicas que se ocupem do futebol de um ponto de vista sócio-histórico. Através de diferentes estudos de caso, interroga-se a vinculação dos clubes de futebol às dinâmicas sociais dos bairros e das cidades, visando compreender o impacto que estes exercem sobre o território. Partindo de diferentes eixos de análise, procura-se reconhecer o papel do associativismo desportivo na promoção de sociabilidades e na construção de identidades à escala local, regional e nacional.
Questões de partida:
- De que forma o recinto desportivo modela social e espacialmente o território onde este se inscreve?
- Como é que a prática do futebol contribuiu para a afirmação de valores de classe, pertença territorial e identidade colectiva em contextos operários?
- De que forma os clubes de futebol actuaram como instrumentos de construção de identidades locais e de coesão comunitária em contextos urbanos industrializados?
ENTRADA LIVRE
>> Programa do seminário (PDF) <<
Programa resumido:
9:30 – 10:00 | Abertura Oficial
10:00 – 11:00 | Conversa: Futebol, associativismo e culturas adeptas em contextos operários
11:00 – 12:00 | Painel 1: A inscrição do recinto desportivo nas dinâmicas do território
12:00 – 13:30 | Almoço
13:30 – 14:30 | Painel 2: Futebol e a Questão Nacional
14:30 – 16:00 | Mesa Redonda/ Painel de Debate: Futebol sem Classe(s)? Considerações para uma nova economia política do Futebol
16:00 – 16:30 | Encerramento
Fotografia: Lfc264 — S. Alhandra vs Sanjoanense, Alhandra, 19 de Outubro de 2003 (© Paulo Catrica)
Time
(Friday) 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Organizer
Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and Institute of Social Sciences — University of Lisbon

Event Details
Continuing the celebration of the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, this cycle proposes to reflect on his multiple legacies, from the anti-racist struggle to decolonisation movements, as well as his
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Event Details
Continuing the celebration of the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, this cycle proposes to reflect on his multiple legacies, from the anti-racist struggle to decolonisation movements, as well as his work as a psychiatrist.
Frantz Fanon | Ciclo de Cinema 2026
Dando continuidade à celebração do centenário do nascimento de Frantz Fanon, este ciclo propõe reflectir sobre os seus múltiplos legados, desde a luta anti-racista aos movimentos de descolonização, passando ainda pela sua actividade como psiquiatra – intimamente entrelaçada com as duas outras vertentes. Já na sua primeira obra Pele negra, máscaras brancas (1952), o cinema ocupa um espaço marginal mas não menos decisivo no que diz respeito a questões de representação, tendo um lugar central nas terapias alternativas que Fanon viria a introduzir no Hospital Psiquiátrico de Blida-Joinville, na Argélia, enquanto Médico-chefe de serviço entre 1953 e 1956. A leitura de Fanon revela-se fundamental não só para a compreensão do contexto histórico em que surgiu, com as suas ramificações entre os movimentos de libertação e as causas do chamado Terceiro Mundo nas décadas de 1960 e 1970, mas sobretudo na luta pelos direitos de grupos racializados. Todas estas questões voltam a ecoar no século XXI, quer em movimentos sociais que reivindicam uma cidadania efectivamente igualitária, quer na discussão sobre a urgência da descolonização dos saberes e das instituições. Como ler Fanon, hoje, a partir de Portugal? Qual o papel das instituições e dos diferentes movimentos na sua recepção? Qual a relevância da sua obra para a nossa contemporaneidade, tendo em conta a complexidade das suas diferentes vertentes – anti-colonial, anti-racista, terapêutica – e a reivindicação para se “sair da grande noite” do colonialismo?
À projecção dos filmes segue-se uma conversa com convidados/as e debate.
As sessões 1 a 4 decorrem na Casa do Comum; a sessão 5 decorre no Cinema Fernando Lopes.
Os filmes são legendados em inglês.
Organização: Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, Miguel Ribeiro e Sofia Victorino, com o IHC —NOVA FCSH
>> Descarregar o programa do ciclo (PDF) <<
Sessão 5 | Sábado, 14 Fevereiro, 16:00
You hide me, Nii Kwate Owoo, Gana, Reino Unido, 1970, 17’
Esta curta-metragem revela de forma crua e directa as contradições de um sistema museológico que legitima séculos de violência colonial. A câmara percorre vitrinas, depósitos e corredores dos acervos do Museu Britânico em Londres, transformando o inventário em denúncia: cada objecto exposto é também um testemunho das condições em que foi retirado do seu contexto original. O gesto do realizador, simples mas radical, assume-se como um show-and-tell político, convocando tanto a urgência da restituição material quanto a necessidade de repensar narrativas históricas dominantes. Proibido em território ganês mas hoje visto como um marco do cinema anti-colonial, este filme recorda-nos que a luta pela devolução do património não é apenas simbólica, mas profundamente ligada a questões de justiça histórica.
Soleil Ô, Med Hondo, 1970, França, Mauritania, 112’
Um grito de resistência contra a opressão racista e um marco revolucionário do cinema político, esta primeira longa-metragem do realizador mauritano Med Hondo constitui um ataque ao capitalismo e ao colonialismo. Soleil Ô acompanha a trajectória de um jovem imigrante que parte rumo a Paris em busca de trabalho e de uma comunidade. Rapidamente descobre uma sociedade hostil, onde a sua simples presença gera medo e desconfiança. Hondo recorre a uma linguagem cinematográfica experimental para denunciar as contradições da metrópole pós-colonial: a promessa de integração convive com mecanismos de exclusão sistemática. O filme não só denuncia as condições de marginalização vividas por milhares de migrantes africanos em França, como se afirma como um manifesto artístico de emancipação e resistência. Meio século depois da sua estreia, Soleil Ô permanece uma obra de referência incontornável, cuja energia estética e política continua a interpelar espectadores de diferentes gerações.
Conversa com Ângela Ferreira, Flávio Almada, Henrique Entratice, Víctor Barros. Moderação de Sofia Victorino
Fotografia: Frantz Fanon numa conferência de imprensa durante um congresso de escritores em Tunes, 1959 (Frantz Fanon Archives / IMEC)
Time
(Saturday) 4:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Organizer
Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and Fernando Lopes Movie Theatre

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This conference aims to open the space for dialogue on how Digital Humanities can boost plural approaches to history, memory, heritage, and creativity. Deadline: 5 December 2025 26 January 2026
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This conference aims to open the space for dialogue on how Digital Humanities can boost plural approaches to history, memory, heritage, and creativity. Deadline: 5 December 2025 26 January 2026 [new deadline]
Crossing Oceans: Digital Humanities in Dialogue
We are pleased to announce the international conference Crossing Oceans: Digital Humanities in Dialogue, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and digital humanists from all around the globe. This event seeks to create a space of truly transoceanic dialogue to discuss the present and future of Digital Humanities.
The conference invites participants to rethink methodologies for work in the Humanities at a time when digital transformations are reshaping how we investigate, interpret, and share knowledge. The digitization of archival materials, alongside the proliferation of born-digital records, has multiplied the sources available for historical, literary, and cultural analysis. Today, researchers have at their disposal a wide range of digital tools and software that allow them to organise, interpret, manipulate, share, and store data in increasingly diverse ways, opening new pathways for both collaborative and innovative research. At the same time, the emergence of artificial intelligence challenges us to critically assess both the possibilities and the risks of automated tools in the construction of knowledge.
Call for papers
By crossing oceans and perspectives, this conference aims to open the space for dialogue on how Digital Humanities can boost plural approaches to history, memory, heritage, and creativity, while also confronting questions of accessibility, ethics, and epistemic justice, as when we use these tools to give voice to new agents previously made invisible by traditional historiography, for instance.
On this conference, we welcome contributions on topics including but not limited to:
- Methodological innovations in Digital Humanities research.
- The impact of AI on the Humanities and critical approaches to its use.
- Digitization projects and the challenges of working with born-digital materials.
- Digital strategies for reaching non-academic audiences.
- Tools and projects that facilitate collaborative and transnational projects.
Submission period: 20 October – 5 December 2025 26 January 2026 [new deadline]
Participation: Free of charge, registration required
Language: English (presentations in other languages may be considered)
🔗 Registration and proposal submission
Organisation
Organising Committee
Anderson Antunes (University of Évora / IHC / IN2PAST)
Sara Albuquerque (University of Évora / IHC / IN2PAST)
Scientific Committee
Ana Margarida Dias da Silva (University of Coimbra / CHSC / DCV-UC)
Anderson Antunes (University of Évora / IHC / IN2PAST)
Daniel Alves (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Santiago Perez (CEComp — FLUL)
Sara Albuquerque (University of Évora / IHC / IN2PAST)
Silvia Valencich Frota (CEComp — FLUL)
Executive Committee
Anderson Antunes (University of Évora / IHC / IN2PAST)
Diana Barbosa (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Sara Albuquerque (University of Évora / IHC / IN2PAST)
Paula Gentil Santos (University of Évora)
This conference is inspired by the KNOW.AFRICA project (https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.01599.PTDC), which investigates nineteenth-century Portuguese scientific expeditions in Angola by highlighting the invisible contributions of local agents who made travelling and collecting possible. In this project, we analyse how cooks, guides, interpreters, porters, local rulers, and others, collaborated with the construction of knowledge and the formation of scientific collections. Through the use of Digital Humanities methods and tools – such as GIS mapping, network analysis and visualisation, databases, and interactive digital timelines – KNOW.AFRICA aims to explore how digital tools can assist in the construction and dissemination of historical knowledge. By combining archival research with digital tools, the project not only advances academic debates on colonial science but also develops outputs aimed at wider publics, including digital exhibitions, podcasts, and interactive maps and timelines. In this way, KNOW.AFRICA aims to use the Digital Humanities as a way to bridge research and dissemination, turning historical inquiry into a shared, multidisciplinary and collaborative process.
Time
february 26 (Thursday) - 27 (Friday)
Organizer
Institute of Contemporary History - University of Évoracehfc@uevora.pt Largo dos Colegiais, 2 — 7000-812 Évora
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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News
Ana Cristina Martins at the International Academy of Portuguese Culture
Jan 26, 2026
Will take office as a Full Member
Proença-a-Nova is the first partner in the ‘The Government of Us All’ programme
Jan 23, 2026
The city took up the challenge launched by the IHC last year
IHC hosts eleven new permanent contracts
Jan 21, 2026
IHC’s efforts to consolidate scientific careers
Opportunities
Junior Researcher — STEXEU Project — DE
Jan 26
Deadline: 26 January 2026
Call for applicants — Three-Years Research Contracts
Dec 15
Deadline (IHC): 15 December 2025






