Course of the NOVA FCSH Summer School aiming to share the results of the research about the material heritage of the Estado Novo regime.

Arqueologia do Estado Novo

[Archaeology of the Estado Novo]

Docente: Xurxo Ayán Vila

Datas e Horários: 1 a 4 de Setembro | terça a quinta-feira — das 15h00 às 19h00; sexta-feira das 15h00 às 18h00

Duração: 15h

Modalidade: presencial

Objectivos:

1. Socializar os resultados do primeiro projeto de Arqueologia do Passado Contemporâneo realizado em Portugal (Arqueologia do Estado Novo), apoiado pela Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (CEECIND/04218/2017).
2. Partilhar uma investigação pioneira e original com o público sobre o legado material do Estado Novo, numa altura em que há um debate público sobre a memória e o património vinculado à ditadura.
3. Divulgar, além da Academia, as materialidades geradas pelo projeto ideológico totalitário do Estado Novo mais também aquelas criadas pela resistência ao fascismo.
4. Mostrar aos cidadãos como o espaço rural e urbano do país ainda é marcado pelos projetos de engenharia social e os usos públicos da memória promovidos pela ditadura.

Programa resumido:

1. Lição 1 “A Arqueologia do Passado Recente. Uma introdução”.
2. Lição 2 “Onde há poder há resistência: arqueologia da guerra do Cambedo (1949)”
3. Lição 3 “Vigiar e punir: prisões, campos de concentração e campos de refugiados”.
4. Lição 4 “A morada do homen novo: materialidades da colonização agrária do salazarismo.
5. Lição 5 “Arqueologia da guerra de Espanha: rastos materiais de Portugal no conflito bélico”.
6. Lição 6 “O que fazer com o legado material do Estado Novo? A controvérsia do Museu Salazar”
7. Visita guiada a Belém. Praça do Império: A Exposição do Mundo Português (1940) O Largo das Escolas (1938).

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[POSTPONED to September 2021] Congress of the European Committee for Sports History that aims to explore the historical configurations of the sports field and its relationship with a broad range of political processes.

Sport and Politics from Antiquity to the Modern Day

24th CESH Congress

The 24th edition of CESH will be held from the 9th to 11th of September 2020 in Lisbon, Portugal. The theme of this year’s congress, “Sport and Politics from Antiquity to the Modern Day“, aims to explore the historical configurations of the sports field and its relationship with a broad range of political processes. The political meaning of sport is a contested affair and a source for multiple and conflicting arguments – ranging from sport as part of ‘bread and circus’ policies or as a terrain of ‘alienation’ and ‘discipline,’ to ideas about sport as an instrument for the promotion of peace, social integration and moral virtue, when duly insulated from the realm of politics. This relationship has been one of the most examined dimensions of sports history. In recent years a growing body of literature has focused on topics such as the link between sport and fascist and communist regimes; the analysis of government strategies of intervention in sports policy; the functions of sports mega-events at the level of international relations; the connection between sports and nationalism; the social, racial and gender inequalities embedded in sporting cultures and practices; or the organizational trans-formations associated with the globalization and commodification of sports. Despite the developments observed in the field, a number of questions about the historical and social conditions of possibility of modern sport and its political dimensions remain open to further inquiry.

While the modernity of sports, and their relation with capitalism and industrialization, is widely recognized, many of our representations and our theories about the historical nature and social location of sports are anchored around ideas that stress the continuities between modern sports and the rituals, spectacles and exercises that are considered its precursors. The political enjeux of sports can be seen, from this perspective, as one of those themes that free the historical imagination and allow us to discuss our current political predicament by placing it in the past. The 2020 CESH Congress calls for contributions that can shed new light on the historical transformation of sports ideologies, practices, agents and institutions and help us reconsider the relation between sports and power. We are particularly interested in papers that: 1) develop empirical analysis that extends our understanding of the political meaning of sports; 2) examine the theoretical and methodological models on which the relationship between sports and politics is grounded; and 3) discuss the way the field of sports history relates to other research fields in the discipline.

On a more substantive level, CESH 2020 welcomes contributions centred on, but not limited to, the following research themes and questions:

• Sport and political regimes: How can we make sense of the transformations of the sporting experience in different political regimes? Is it possible or not to put forward a political periodization of sport? What is fascist (or communist) about fascist (or communist) sports practices and spectacles? Is there an essential break between aristocratic, authoritarian and democratic sports (and, if yes, at what levels)?
• Sport, race and colonialism: What role did sport play in colonial empires? How did the colonial politics of racial differentiation and hierarchization shape sports? And how was the colonial project shaped by sporting practices and ideologies? What can we learn about decolonization processes by putting sports centre stage? How did newly independent nations negotiate imperial memories and/or political projects of autonomy through sport? How do racialization practices operate on the sports field?
• Sports organizations as political institutions: What is political about sports institutions and governance? How do the politics of sports organizations and clubs relate to other spheres of the political? What are the political stakes in conflicts taking place inside sports institutions? What type of political mobilization takes place inside sports organizations? How do sport organizations and practices relate with mass and popular culture?
• Sport and imagined communities: In what ways and in which scales do sports clubs and sporting institutions come to serve as foci of community identification? How do these systems vary historically and geographically? What type of institutions shape these identifications? How do media discourses reproduce and transform sports cultures and identities? How do the moral grammars of different fan cultures relate with other identification systems (ie religious, political, regional) and other moral grammars?
• Sports and governmentality: How have state policies shaped sporting practices and landscapes? Which groups are the main targets of biopolitical technologies? Under which rationalities have specialists of the sports field exercised and legitimised their power? Which institutions have been at the forefront of the manage-ment and administration of bodies through sport? What systems of classification and identification have been applied by different state agencies to sports practi-tioners, fans and institutions?
• Sport and international relations: What type of role does sport play in international relations? How do national and international political questions impact on the sports field? Does the globalization of different sports practices and images follow the patterns of the international political system or does it have its own specific logics? How do sports mega-events allow us to reframe power relations in a global world?
• Sport and Gender: How has the relationship between sport and gender evolved? What can a history of sport tell us about the construction of gender categories? How can we reconstruct our understanding of sports as gendered practices? How do sports practices contribute to the production of gendered bodies?

We welcome papers from historians, including those outside the field of sport history, as well as from researchers across the social sciences, namely anthropology, cultural studies, economics, geography, political science and sociology, tackling one or more of these themes and questions, as well as others.

Abstracts (maximum 300 words) along with a paragraph with biographical information, should be sent by email to: cesh2020@fcsh.unl.pt by 3 April 2020 30 May 2020.

Besides individual papers, we also encourage the submission of panel proposals (up to three papers). In this case, convenors should also present an abstract for the panel (maximum 300 words) alongside the individual papers abstracts in a single file. Applicants will be notified of the results of the selection process by May 15, 2020.

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Keynote speakers:

– Barbara J. Keys (Durham University, United Kingdom)
– Patrick Clastres (Université de Lausanne, Switzerland)
– Stefano Pivato (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy)

Organising Committee

Coordination

Daniele Serapiglia (Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities)
Rahul Kumar (Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities / Faculty of Economics — University of Coimbra)

Members

Inês Brasão (Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities / School of Tourism and Maritime Technology — Polytechnic of Leiria)
Nuno Domingos (Institute of Social Sciences — University of Lisbon)
Rita Nunes (Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities)
João Sedas Nunes (NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities)
Ana Santos (Faculty of Human Kinetics — University of Lisbon)

Scientific committee

Fabien Archambault (Université de Limoges)
Eleonora Belloni (Università degli Studi di Siena)
Anaïs Bohuon (Université Paris-Sud)
Daphné Bolz (Université de Rouen)
Georgia Cervin (University of Western Australia)
Alejandro de la Viuda Serrano (Universidad de Alcalá)
Mike Huggins (European Committee for Sports History / University of Cumbria)
Claire Nicolas (Université de Lausanne, SciencesPo Paris)
Victor Pereira (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour)
Martin Polley (De Montfort University)
Grégory Quin (Université de Lausanne)
Alejandro Quiroga (Newcastle University)
Nicola Sbetti (Università di Bologna)
Juan Antonio Simón (Universidad Europea de Madrid)
Philippe Vonnard (Université de Lausanne)
Patrizia Dogliani (Università di Bologna)

Image: National Stadium, Lisbon, Portugal, 1947. Estúdio Horácio Novais Collection. FCG — Art Library and Archives. (Source)

[POSTPONED to 2021] Second symposium about the history of coal, this year focused on the energetic transition paradigms and climate change. Call for papers until 30 April.

Memories of Coal — 2nd Symposium

Six years after the first “Memories of Coal” Symposium, held in Batalha and Porto de Mós, where the issue of preservation and valorization of the mining and industrial heritage of coal was discussed, it is time for a new look at the subject, now in a framework where the paradigms of energy transition and climate change emerge sharply.

The place:

Rio Maior was, during part of the twentieth century, home to an important underground coal exploration (lignite) that supplied, among other industrial customers, the Cachofarra (Setúbal) and Central Tejo (Lisbon) power plants operated by the former UEP and CRGE private companies. Although the technological properties of this coal imposed some limitations on its use, the known reserves have even pointed to the possibility of building a mine mouth power plant, a project that was abandoned in favour of other options. Still imposing, although stripped of all their equipment, the most important buildings of the mining complex, where coal was processed, constitute aremarkable piece of industrial architecture of the Modern Movement.

An anniversary

Based on a wealth of knowledge about the importance of the Rio Maior lignite deposit acquired over the course of some years of reconnaissance and exploration work, and gathering the necessary capital, the Empresa Industrial Carbonífera e Electrotécnica, Lda. (EICEL) was constituted on September 15, 1920, in a notary office at Oporto. The main objectives of the company were the industrial and commercial exploitation of local coal mines, the commercial and industrial use of lignite and its derivatives and the production of electricity in thermal power plants. With an initial share capital of 450,000 $ 00, EICEL aimed to make Rio Maior, in a not too distant future, “a large and prosperous city”. It closed in 1969, abandoning mining activities.

New challenges

As the main source of primary energy that it was, and still is in various regions of the world, coal is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, the mobilization of the Society in international conventions, such as Paris Agreement (2015), to encourage the elimination of its use, establishes a simultaneously ambitious and difficult goal.
Just as new terms and concepts move from lexicon to practice and implementation – read carbon sequestration and decarbonization – new elements and material testimonies are being added, a whole heritage linked to the extraction, transformation and uses of coal among which the mineral-industrial complexes and the power plants stand out as pertinent subjects of the economic, industrial and environmental agendas.

The symposium

It is intended to create an informal environment that facilitates an intense exchange of knowledge and experiences between guests and participants, in an international involvement compatible with the universal nature of the two (apparently antagonistic) anchors of the symposium: environment and decarbonization, and coal and industrial memories.

Call for papers

The Scientific and Organising Committees encourage the participants of the Conference to present papers in the following thematic areas:

– The decarbonization paradigm
– Coal Uses and the Paris Agreement
– Coal Industry Environmental Impacts: Passive and Remediation
– New uses of coal mines; carbon sequestration
– Sustainable mining
– Coal as a primary energy source
– Coal Heritage (state of the art and problems)
– Recovery and enhancement of coal mining and industrial heritage
– Mining and geological heritage of bituminous rocks
– Museum Experiences and geomining tourism
– Coal in transportation, electricity, the chemical industry
– Work organization and workers movements
– Health, culture and leisure in the coal mining communities
– Coal in popular literature and / or traditions

Calendar

Proposals and registrations until 30 April (after 30 April, 20% will be added to the registration fee)
Communication of results until 31 May
Delivery of texts for peer-review until 31 October
Reviewers’ assessment until 31 December
Edition of approved texts: 2021

Regulations (abstracts and posters)

A. Papers (15min max.). To be gathered in sessions followed by Q&A
B. Poster presentation (90 cm x 120 cm – portrait/vertical orientation)

Languages admitted: Portuguese, Spanish, English and French

🔗 Proposal form

Registration

Registration guarantees the documentation of the Meeting, participation in all scientific and social acts of the event, as well as lunch on the day of the presentations.

Fees

Unitil 31 May: General 50,00€ / Students and unemployed 5,00€
After 31 May: General 65,00€ / Students and unemployed 10,00€

A social dinner is scheduled for Friday, the 18th, with optional registration. Price, menu and place will be announced in due course.

🔗 Registration form

Payment

Payments should be made​​ by bank transfer to the account of the EICEL 1920- ASSOC. DEF. PATRIMONIO MINEIRO, IND. ARQ.
Bank: Crédito Agrícola
IBAN: PT50004554424026727575918
BIC/SWIFT: CCCMPTPL

Proof of transfer, as well as the necessary proof in the case of reduced fees should be sent by e-mail: memoriasdocarvao@gmail.com.

Organising committee

Maria Fernanda Rollo (Instituto de História Contemporânea, NOVA FCSH)
José M. Brandão (Instituto de História Contemporânea, NOVA FCSH)
Filipe Silva (Instituto de História Contemporânea, NOVA FCSH)
Nuno Rocha (EICEL 1920)
António Moreira (EICEL 1920)
Francisco Colaço (Câmara Municipal de Rio Maior)
Antonio Pizarro Losilla (SEDPGYM)
Mariano Ayarzagüena Sanz (SEDPGYM)

Scientific committee

Ana Carina Azevedo (Instituto de História Contemporânea, NOVA FCSH)
Emilio Lopez Jimeno (UIXAM CONSULTORES S.L. / SEDPGYM)
Fernando Pedrazuela Gonzalez (Diputación Provincial de Segovia / SEDPGYM)
Jorge Fernandes Alves (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto)
Helena Freitas (Centro de Ecologia Funcional, Universidade de Coimbra)
José Manuel Cordeiro (ICS, Universidade do Minho / APPI / TICCIH)
Josep Maria Mata-Perelló (Geoparc de la Catalunya Central)
Leonor Medeiros (NOVA FCSH / APAI)
Luis Mansilla Plaza (Universidad de Castilla la Mancha / SEDPGYM)
Manuel João Lemos de Sousa (Universidade Fernando Pessoa)
Margarida Genera i Monells (Dep. de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació de la Generalitat de Catalunya)
Maria de Fátima Nunes (Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade de Évora)
Maria Fernanda Rollo (Instituto de História Contemporânea, NOVA FCSH)
Maria Margaret Lopes (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
Robert Vernon (Northern Mine Research Society)

Partners

APAI – Associação Portuguesa de Arqueologia Industrial
APOM – Associação Portuguesa de Museologia
APPI – Associação Portuguesa para o Património Industrial
Associação Portuguesa de Geólogos
Colégio Nacional de Engenharia geológica e de Minas da Ordem dos Engenheiros
Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros Técnicos y Grados en Minas y Energía de Córdoba
Fundación Cuenca del Guadiato
Liga de Amigos do Museu Mineiro de S. Pedro da Cova
Museu Mineiro de S. Pedro da Cova

Preliminary programme

Thursday, 17 September

Reception
Opening ceremony
Conference: Carbon sequestration – experiences and perspectives
Poster Presentation
Round table: on the path of decarbonization
Communications by thematic section
Inauguration of the 1st exhibition center of the Rio Maior Mining Museum

Friday, 18 September

Poster Presentation
Conference: coal mining heritage and museums
Communication by thematic section
Closing ceremony
Farewell dinner (not included in the registration fee)

Saturday, 19 September

Field visits: Rio Maior salt marches and Serras de Aire e Candeeiros Natural Park

[POSTPONED to 2021] A conference concerned with exploring what geospatial technologies such as Geographical Information Systems have to contribute to humanities research. Deadline: 28 February  9 March 2020

Spatial Humanities 2020

We are delighted to announce that the third in the series of Spatial Humanities conferences will be held in Lisbon, 24-25th September 2020. Spatial Humanities 2020 is concerned with exploring what geospatial technologies such as Geographical Information Systems (GIS) have to contribute to humanities research. The main aim is to explore and demonstrate the contributions to knowledge enabled by these technologies, approaches and methods within and beyond the digital humanities. We welcome submissions on all aspects of using geospatial technologies in humanities research, including database development, methodological innovation and applied research that develops our understanding of the geographies of the past.

We welcome contributions from all humanities disciplines including (but not limited to) history (including fields from social science history such as historical demography and environmental history), archaeology, literary studies, classics, linguistics, art history, anthropology and religious studies, as well as from technical fields including GISc, digital humanities, computational linguistics and computer science. Contributions from PhD students are encouraged and bursaries are available (see below). Non-speaking participants are also welcome.

Keynote speakers:

Katrina Navickas, Department of History, University of Hertfordshire
Barbara Piatti, Basel, Switzerland

We also have a scientific committee made up of Spatial Humanities experts from across the world.

Student fee waivers: We are delighted to offer up to four student fee waivers to PhD students who are sole or lead authors of a paper. Applications will be considered by the Scientific Committee on the basis of the quality of the abstract. To apply simply check the appropriate box on the conference abstract submission form.

How to participate: Submissions can be complete sessions or individual papers. A session will usually have three or four papers and a chair. Other formats are also welcome. Individual papers will be assigned to sessions by the scientific committee. To submit, please use the abstract submission form, including an abstract of up to 250 words for each paper.

Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2020. 9 March 2020
Notification of acceptance: 31 March 2020.

Venue: NOVA FCSH venue in Campolide is easily accessible from Lisbon International Airport, and from there using the Metro red line. In 20 minutes, you can reach São Sebastião station and from there a 15 minutes’ walk will take you to NOVA FCSH campus and Almada Negreiros College (CAN). For more information click here.

Costs: Full registration including teas & coffees and lunch on both days, plus the conference dinner on the 24th, costs €195, reduced to €95 for students. Day rates are €110 (full) and €55 (student) respectively. Accommodation is available in the city and should be booked separately once papers have been accepted.

Contact details for informal enquiries: spatialhum@lancaster.ac.uk

Conference Organisers:

Daniel Alves, Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Ian Gregory, Digital Humanities Hub, Lancaster University

Scientific Committee:

David Bodenhamer, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Isabelle Devos, Universiteit Gent
Tiffany Earley-Spadoni, University of Central Florida
Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh
Patricia Murrieta-Flores, Lancaster University
Enrique Santos Unamuno, Universidad de Extremadura
Luís Espinha da Silveira, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa

A meeting and training session dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust, organised by several Portuguese institutions in the framwork of the “Projeto Nunca Esquecer“.

De Famalicão para o Mundo:

Em torno da Memória do Holocausto e a ajuda humanitária

A Resolução do Conselho de Ministros nº51/2020 de 25 de Junho, aprovou “as linhas estratégicas do Projeto Nunca Esquecer – Programa Nacional em torno da Memória do Holocausto”. O CITCEM, através do seu grupo “Educação e Desafios Societais”, em colaboração com a Câmara Municipal de Famalicão, a APH, o IHC — NOVA FCSH e o CFAEVNF elaboraram o programa do encontro “Em torno da memória do Holocausto e a ajuda humanitária”.

Evento com inscrição gratuita, mas obrigatória, neste link.

O encontro/formação (13h) encontra-se acreditado pelo Científico Pedagógico da Formação Contínua (CCPFC/ACC-108930/20) para professores dos Grupos 200, 290, 400, 410 e 420.

>> Programa (PDF) <<

Programa resumido:

25 de Setembro

14h00 — Abertura

14h15 — Apresentação e divulgação do Projeto “Nunca Esquecer – Programa Nacional em torno da Memória do Holocausto”

15h10 — Cláudia Ninhos (IHC — NOVA FCSH): Portugal e os Nazis – Histórias e Segredos de uma Aliança

15h45 — Debate

16h30 — Margarida de Magalhães Ramalho (IHC — NOVA FCSH): Memórias de Aristides (projeto de Museu de Vilar Formoso)

17h15 — Esther Mucznik (Memoshoá): Podemos falar de uma hierarquia da memória da Shoah? O que nos ensina a Operação T4, dita de Eutanásia

18h00 — Ansgar Schaefer (IHC — NOVA FCSH): A História e o Documentário cinematográfico

18h45 — Debate

26 de Setembro

09h00 — Patrícia Carvalho (Público): Portugueses nos Campos no Concentração Nazis

10h00 — Sandra Costa (Escola Secundária da Maia): O ensino e a memória do Holocausto em Portugal: o exemplo do Projeto N.O.M.E.S. na Escola Secundária de Vilela e na Escola Secundária da Maia

11h00 — Debate

11h30 — Miguel Barros (Associação de Professores de História): A Associação de Professores de História no Quadro das comemorações – atividades e recurso

12h15 — Debate

15h00 — Eugénio Fonseca (Cáritas Portugal): A Cáritas em Portugal (1947-1958)

15h45 — Ana Regina Pinho (FLUP/CITCEM): As “Crianças Cáritas”, entre a Áustria e Portugal (1947-1958)

16h30 — Debate

17h00 — Memórias para a História de Famalicão: depoimentos

17h45 — Luísa Blak (Conselho da Europa): Ensino de História e Memórias Dolorosas

16h30 — Debate

Organização

• Leonel Rocha (Vereador da Educação, Conhecimento e Cultura – CMVNF)
• Arminda Ferreira (Educação/Cultura – CMVNF)
• Luís Alberto Alves (FLUP/CITCEM)
• Isabel Barca (FLUP/CITCEM)
• Filipa Sousa Lopes (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
• António Gonçalves (Galeria Municipal Ala da Frente)
• Miguel Barros (APH)
• Aurora Marques (CFAEVNF)

Sixth lecture of the fourth cycle dedicated to the history of Lisbon, this year focused on the 200th anniversary of the 1820 Revolution. Coordinated by Daniel Alves (IHC) and Rosa Maria Fina (CLEPUL), and hosted by the Lisbon Museum. Speaker: Sérgio Monteiro Abrantes.

Novos estudos & Novos olhares sobre os 200 anos da Lisboa Liberal

IV Ciclo de Conferências

Em 2020, o nosso Ciclo de Conferências vai ser especial, uma vez que vai ser inteiramente dedicado aos 200 anos da Revolução Liberal. Nesse sentido, integramos o programa Relembrar a Revolução de 1820. Liberdade e Cidadania e renomeámos o Ciclo, que este ano será designado como Novos estudos & Novos olhares sobre os 200 anos da Lisboa Liberal.

Devido à pandemia COVID-19 o programa foi reajustado, com alterações nas datas das sessões.

ENTRADA LIVRE

Programa completo (📎 PDF):

26 de Fevereiro

Francesco Esposito | CESEM — NOVA FCSH
Música e Liberalismo: a vida musical em Lisboa entre 1820 e 1853

24 de Março 28 de Abril [NOVA DATA]

Maria Alexandre Lousada | Departamento de História da FLUL
Ler a revolução: gabinetes de leitura em Lisboa na década de 1820

28 de Abril 13 de Maio [NOVA DATA]

Jorge Custódio | IHC — NOVA FCSH
Retrato de Lisboa Industrial durante o vintismo

24 de Junho 27 de Maio [NOVA DATA]

Rui Sousa | CLEPUL — Universidade de Lisboa
Abomináveis producções da incredulidade e da libertinagem. A cultura libertina na constituição da Lisboa Liberal

27 de Maio 24 de Junho [NOVA DATA]

Raquel Henriques da Silva | IHA — NOVA FCSH
Impactos da extinção dos Conventos na imagem e funções de Lisboa

30 de Setembro

Sérgio Monteiro Abrantes | NOVA-FCSH
Lisboa estava muito animada e alegre: uma leitura urbana do ciclo revolucionário vintista (1820-1823)

28 de Outubro

Justino Magalhães | Instituto de Educação — Universidade de Lisboa
Lisboa Liberal e Educação – município, estado, império

25 de Novembro

Ana Isabel Vasconcelos | Universidade Aberta / Centro de Estudos de Teatro — FLUL
As práticas teatrais na Lisboa Liberal: os anos 30 e 40 de Oitocentos

15 de Dezembro

Zília Osório de Castro | NOVA FCSH
1821, Lisboa e os deputados à Constituinte

Sobre o ciclo:
Não se pode dizer que a investigação académica sobre Lisboa alguma vez tenha passado de moda, afirma-se um contínuo olhar sobre a cidade e descobre-se nela, no seu espaço e nas suas gentes, motivos para novos estudos todos os anos. A perspectiva deste ciclo de conferências é, por isso, a de renovar esse olhar apresentando e discutindo trabalhos, textos, projectos que têm Lisboa como cenário ou Lisboa como actriz. E são estas duas visões que enquadram os estudos que fazem parte deste ciclo de conferências: por um lado, caracterizar a vivência quotidiana, a sociabilidade e as dinâmicas culturais, sociais ou políticas daqueles que viveram ou passaram pela cidade; por outro lado, analisar o seu espaço físico, o seu pulsar urbano, as suas transformações. Estes dois olhares, porém, não os queremos fixos numa determinada época, antes os estendemos num arco de mais de dois séculos, procurando abarcar a História de Lisboa do século XVIII ao século XX. Queremos que sejam também histórias nunca antes contadas sobre Lisboa e os lisboetas, queremos apelar à imaginação dos que vierem assistir e queremos que venham debater connosco cada um dos temas propostos.