This conference aims to open the space for dialogue on how Digital Humanities can boost plural approaches to history, memory, heritage, and creativity.

 

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.

 

🔗 Programme (PDF)

🔗 Book of abstracts (PDF)

 

 

Programme highlights

 

26 February

08:30 GMT – Registration and welcome coffee
08:45 GMT – Opening
09:00–10:30 GMT – Digital archives and collections
10:30–12:00 GMT – Digital heritage
13:00–15:00 GMT – Round-table
15:00–15:30 GMT – Coffee break
15:30–17:00 GMT – Digital approaches to colonialism
17:00–18:30 GMT – Databases and archives

 

27 February

08:30 GMT – Welcome coffee
09:00–10:30 GMT – Artificial Intelligence
10:30–12:00 GMT – Databases
113:00–15:00 GMT – Round-table
15:00–15:30 – Coffee break
15:30–17:00 GMT – Infrastructures and methods
17:00–18:30 GMT – Artificial Intelligence

 

 

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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)

 

🔗 Conference website

🔗 Registration and proposal submission

🔗 Call for papers (PDF)

 

 

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.

 

 

Opening session of the film cycle that showcases how Lisbon was a recurring presence in thrillers about espionage, criminal networks, and other types of conspiracy.

 

Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional

Ciclo de cinema

 

São várias as ligações de Lisboa ao cinema, tendo algumas delas já justificado ciclos passados na Cinemateca Portuguesa. Uma faceta pouco reconhecida é a inserção da cidade num sub-género do thriller, centrado em tramas de espionagem, redes criminosas e outros tipos de intriga internacional. São mais de meia centena as obras em que conspiradores, traficantes e agentes secretos de várias estirpes se perseguem e matam em Lisboa, que aparece ora como palco central ora como cenário passageiro, atraindo espiões fictícios e cineastas reais, ainda que em regra sob a forma de enredos mirabolantes e abertamente artificiais, desde grandes produções a filmes de série B. A maioria ficou excluída deste ciclo, as suas cópias perdidas ou demasiado deterioradas. Ainda assim, os vinte filmes incluídos, seleccionados pelo historiador Rui Lopes (IHC), percorrem grande parte do século XX, oriundos dos EUA, Itália, França, Espanha, Reino Unido, Alemanha e União Soviética, deixando entrever na sua diversidade uma continuidade cinematográfica, com situações, personagens-tipo e espaços recorrentes, do Terreiro do Paço ao Castelo de São Jorge.

Se encontramos Lisboa já num par de thrillers alemães dos anos 1930, é nas décadas seguintes que a cidade se afirma enquanto lugar estereotípico do género, fruto de três encontros entre geopolítica e economia do cinema. O primeiro encontro dá-se durante a II Guerra Mundial, quando refugiados e agentes dos dois campos se cruzam num Portugal oficialmente neutro. O governo americano estimula Hollywood a produzir obras que mobilizem o público para o esforço de guerra, elegendo Casablanca (cujos protagonistas procuram alcançar Lisboa) como exemplo máximo de sucesso financeiro, aclamação crítica e dramatização política. A tentativa de evocar um espírito de continuação dessa obra (até pelo retomar do elenco em The Conspirators), origina de imediato várias produções em que Lisboa é recriada nos estúdios de Los Angeles. É tão forte a associação a este conflito no grande ecrã (incluindo uma breve aparição noutro clássico do género: The House on 92nd Street) que a cidade manterá uma presença regular em narrativas posteriores sobre a guerra, como The Secret Door (1964), que vai ser apresentado pela primeira vez em salas portuguesas.

Por seu turno, a viragem para os anos 1950 é marcada por um declínio dos recursos de Hollywood, fruto de novas regras anti-monopolistas, optando muitos produtores americanos por rodar na Europa, onde os salários são mais baixos e as paisagens filmadas a cores proporcionam um espectáculo visual e ‘exótico’ com o qual a televisão ainda não pode competir. Estas ‘runaway productions’ gravitam até Lisboa, socorrendo-se da sua conotação com romance e espionagem, actualizada ao contexto da Guerra Fria, elo que se torna a tal ponto icónico que já o vemos parodiado neste ciclo por comediantes como Jerry Lewis. Vemos também, nas ruas da capital, adaptações dos dois extremos do espectro da ficção de espionagem: as aventuras de James Bond (On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) e o realismo psicológico de John le Carré (The Russia House).

Para além da luz fotogénica e custos reduzidos, a cidade oferece cada vez melhores condições às equipas vindas de fora, com o aparelho de propaganda do Estado Novo empenhado em promover o país, sobretudo o seu potencial turístico, importante fonte de receitas. As produtoras europeias aproveitam a oportunidade, desde thrillers próximos do film noir (Passaporto Falso) até policiais com contornos de giallo (Quel Ficcanaso Dell’Ispettore Lawrence). A série 007 origina uma vaga de imitações a meio dos anos 1960, com menor orçamento e, em regra, mais sexo e violência. É, portanto, uma Lisboa pop, moderna, dinâmica e erotizada a que aparece em filmes como Comando de Asesinos, em contraste com o cinzentismo frequentemente associado à memória desta época. De resto, o ciclo inclui duas obras portuguesas (Operação Dinamite e 7 Balas Para Selma) que aderem justamente a esse jogo, representando a capital sob o prisma das aventuras de super-espiões feitas lá fora. Por trás das bombásticas cenas de acção no Estoril e Alfama, paira a clandestinidade e o conflito político que eram há muito parte do quotidiano lisboeta. Com a exceção de La Vita È Bella, no entanto, essa realidade permanece secreta nas histórias levadas ao ecrã.

Este ciclo resulta de uma colaboração entre a Cinemateca Portuguesa, o Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) e o projecto ExPORT (baseado no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa), com apoio da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, do Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lisbona, do Institut français du Portugal, do Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa e da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

O programa cinematográfico é acompanhado de visitas guiadas e conversas em diferentes instituições sobre a evolução da imagem da cidade, da linguagem do cinema e das relações políticas e culturais entre Portugal e outros países ao longo século XX.

 

A sessão de abertura está agendada para as 19h de 2 de Março, com a exibição do filme Lisbon, de Ray Milland (Estados Unidos, 1956 – 91 min) e a presença do curador do ciclo, Rui Lopes.

Na mesma noite, às 21h30, será exibido 7 Balas Para Selma, de António de Macedo (Portugal, 1967 – 108 min).

 

 

>> Programa completo do ciclo e das actividades paralelas (PDF) <<

 

 

 

Three historians explore the role of exile in France and culture in the fight against Salazarism and colonialism. Initiative included in the film cycle Lisbon, Capital of International Intrigue.

 

Dinâmicas Culturais Transnacionais: Cultura e luta entre duas capitais

 

Se Lisboa foi o décor de filme de espionagem, Paris foi o palco da liberdade. No âmbito do ciclo de cinema Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional, e com o apoio do Institut Français, convidamo-vos a revisitar as relações culturais franco-portuguesas nos anos 1960-1970. Entre a gravação de “Grândola, Vila Morena” no Château d’Hérouville, os comícios anti-coloniais e a ocupação da Casa dos Estudantes Portugueses transformada em “primeiro território livre de Portugal”, três historiadores do Instituto de História Contemporânea exploram o papel do exílio em França e da cultura na luta contra o salazarismo e o colonialismo.

 

Oradores:

Luís Trindade: A Invenção Parisiense da Música Popular Portuguesa
Víctor Barros: “Tarde Anticolonial” em Paris com Militantes Independentistas, Desertores e Exilados Portugueses em França
Victor Pereira: O Maio de 1968 dos Portugueses em França

 

ENTRADA LIVRE

 

>> Consulte o programa completo do ciclo AQUI (PDF)

 

 

O ciclo Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional resulta de uma colaboração entre a Cinemateca Portuguesa, o Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) e o projecto ExPORT (baseado no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa), com apoio da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, do Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lisbona, do Institut français du Portugal, do Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa e da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

 

Round table with experts in history, film studies, media, and tourism who will discuss some of the most interesting films from the cycle Lisbon, Capital of International Intrigue.

 

Olhares sobre Lisboa, Capital do Cinema de Intriga Internacional

 

Esta mesa-redonda reúne especialistas em história, estudos de cinema, media e turismo que irão discutir alguns dos filmes mais interessantes do ciclo de cinema Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional, bem como a relação histórica do cinema com a cidade de Lisboa, a espionagem, o turismo e as relações internacionais do Estado Novo, desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial ao fim do regime.

A conversa contará com a participação de Rui Lopes, Inês Sapeta Dias e Sofia Sampaio, investigador/as do Instituto de História Contemporânea (NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST) e Instituto de Ciências Sociais (Universidade de Lisboa), bem como de Richard Rhys Davies, curador do arquivo digital Kiss Kiss Kill Kill Archive e autor de The International Spy Film Guide sever1945-1989.

ENTRADA LIVRE mediante levantamento de bilhete 60 minutos antes do início da mesa-redonda.

 

>> Consulte o programa completo do ciclo AQUI (PDF)

 

 

O ciclo Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional resulta de uma colaboração entre a Cinemateca Portuguesa, o Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) e o projecto ExPORT (baseado no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa), com apoio da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, do Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lisbona, do Institut français du Portugal, do Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa e da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

 

How do the machinery of war and political violence relate to the production of power relations and subjectivity that we generally refer to as authoritarianism?

 

Wars, Violence, and Authoritarianism

 

How do the machinery of war and political violence relate to the production of power relations and subjectivity that we generally refer to as authoritarianism? Professors Charalambos Minasidis (University of Yale) and Fernando Jiménez Herrera (Complutense University of Madrid) will share their reflections on this question, based on meticulous archival work that positions them as two of the leading experts on the Greek and Spanish dictatorships of the 20th century.

The workshop is part of the STEXEU project, coordinated by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez.

 

Programme:

11h-13h: From Discrimination to Genocide: Minorities as the “Enemy Within” during the Ottoman Long War, with Charalambos Minasidis (University of Yale)
16h-18h: Chekas, la violencia revolucionaria en el relato franquista sobre la guerra civil española, 1936-1977, with Fernando Jiménez Herrera (Complutense University of Madrid)

 

 

Round table discussion on clandestine meetings that took place in Lisbon during the Estado Novo regime and the underground currents that ran through the city dominated by the regime’s dull character — part of the cycle Lisbon, Capital of International Intrigue.

 

Encontros clandestinos na capital da espionagem:

As relações luso-alemãs em Lisboa entre as décadas de 1940 e 1970

 

Que encontros clandestinos ocorreram em Lisboa, capital da espionagem entre a Segunda Guerra Mundial até aos tempos de Guerra Fria? Que correntes subterrâneas atravessaram a cidade dominada pelo carácter baço do regime de Salazar, em diferentes domínios?

É sobre estes temas, mais ou menos secretos, mais ou menos clandestinos ou subterrâneos, que nos propomos conversar na Biblioteca do Goethe Institut, no próximo dia 10 de Março, pelas 18h30, numa sessão conduzida por Manuela Ribeiro Sanches. Fernando Clara começará por nos falar das tempestades que assolaram Lisboa em Maio de 1945, bem como das missas que foram mandadas rezar pelas almas dos dois ditadores depostos, ao mesmo tempo que se celebrava a vitória dos Aliados. Vera San Payo de Lemos lembrará a censura do teatro de Brecht e o boom subsequente das suas peças nos palcos da capital da espionagem depois do 25 de Abril. Jürgen Bock evocará a visita à Caparica de Hubert Fichte na década de 1960, escritor a quem a partilha do mundo clandestino da homossexualidade permitiu um acesso único ao Portugal dessa época.

ENTRADA LIVRE

 

Esta conversa será complementada, às 21h30, na Cinemateca Portuguesa, com a exibição do mais antigo thriller alemão rodado em Lisboa, Der weiße Dämon (1932), junto com um breve documentário da altura sobre esta produção, intitulado A UFA em Lisboa, parte do ciclo de cinema Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional.

 

>> Consulte o programa completo do ciclo AQUI (PDF)

 

 

O ciclo Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional resulta de uma colaboração entre a Cinemateca Portuguesa, o Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) e o projecto ExPORT (baseado no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa), com apoio da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, do Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lisbona, do Institut français du Portugal, do Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa e da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

 

Round table discussion seeking to contextualise the production of the films that make up the cycle Lisbon, Capital of International Intrigue, based on the political, economic and legal history of Francoism.

 

Lisboa, Madrid, Europa

 

Entre crescimento económico, vigilância política e social e o desejo de reconhecimento europeu, o período do desarrollismo foi também um tempo de intensa produção simbólica. A partir da história política, económica e legal do Franquismo, bem como da circulação de imaginários cinéfilos entre as décadas de 1960 e 1980, esta conversa procura enquadrar o contexto de produção dos filmes que integram o ciclo Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional, a decorrer na Cinemateca Portuguesa entre os dias 2 e 31 de Março.

Oradores:

Ana Algara (ICS — Universidade de Lisboa), Manuel Loff (IHC — NOV AFCSH / IN2PAST / FLUP) e Rúben Pérez Trujillano (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST / Universidad de Granada), com moderação de Rita Luís (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)

 

ENTRADA LIVRE

 

O evento será complementado, às 21h30, na Cinemateca Portuguesa, com a exibição da co-produção Espanha-Portugal-Alemanha Comando de Asesinos / Fim-de-Semana com a Morte (Julio Coll, 1966).

 

>> Consulte o programa completo do ciclo AQUI (PDF)

 

 

O ciclo Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional resulta de uma colaboração entre a Cinemateca Portuguesa, o Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) e o projecto ExPORT (baseado no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa), com apoio da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, do Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lisbona, do Institut français du Portugal, do Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa e da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

 

Conference that aims to look at the world from the borders between Europe and Mercosur, balancing between the infinitely small and the infinitely large.

 

Um Mundo Comum: Fronteiras, cooperação e segurança na EU e no Mercosul

 

O objectivo desta conferência, que reúne cientistas sociais de várias proveniências disciplinares, é colocar o olhar sobre o mundo a partir das fronteiras, entre a Europa e o Mercosul, balançando entre o infinitamente pequeno, detalhado e etnográfico, e o infinitamente grande, mundial, de repercussões múltiplas, entre o que se evidencia e o que pode vir a ser. Se o futuro é mais do que o provável, nesta conferência debatemos realidades actuais e horizontes de possibilidades, em tempos e escalas diversas.

Uma iniciativa do IHC e do projecto BORES, da Universidade Complutense de Madrid, com cientistas convidadas.

 

>> Programa da conferência (PDF) <<

 

 

Guided tour exploring locations that have been used in several films from the Lisbon, Capital of International Intrigue cycle, where spies (real and fictional) and filmmakers of various nationalities have passed through.

 

Visita guiada por Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional

 

Esta visita guiada vai explorar locais de rodagem recorrentes em vários filmes do ciclo Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional, por onde passaram espiões (reais e fictícios) e cineastas de várias nacionalidades. Começando no icónico Largo de Santo Estêvão, seguiremos pelo rio (presença fundamental nestas representações da cidade) e partilharemos histórias das filmagens na Praça do Comércio e na Baixa, onde foram encenados múltiplos tiroteios, perseguições e conspirações, subindo depois para o miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara.

A visita será conduzida por João Rosmaninho.

As pessoas interessadas, devem deslocar-se ao Largo de Santo Estêvão às 16h30. A visita terá início às 17h.

 

Após a visita, às 19h30 na Cinemateca, será projectado o filme Le Grain de Sable / O Triângulo Circular, que reúne todos estes espaços num contraste do turístico solar com o policial noir.

 

>> Consulte o programa completo do ciclo AQUI (PDF)

 

 

O ciclo Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional resulta de uma colaboração entre a Cinemateca Portuguesa, o Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) e o projecto ExPORT (baseado no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa), com apoio da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, do Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lisbona, do Institut français du Portugal, do Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa e da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

 

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 #3: Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World, by Hartmut Rosa

 

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 Resonance: A Sociology of Our Relationship to the World, by Hartmut Rosa (English translation). The chapter – “Resonance and Alienation as Basic Categories of a Theory of Our Relationship to the World” – explores two social effects of Rosa’s approach to a material-discursive (radical) relationality that is inherently affective. This is a crucial text to explore the material relationality of bodies, space, and the vibrations of modernity as both a historical category and a pernicious, insidious, infrastructure impacting our living in the world. This reading group is going to be led by Hélia Marçal (IHA — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST).

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: Guava, axial view, MRI. Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford. Source: 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).

 

Workshop with experts on the history of relations between the United States and Portugal, who will present their latest studies on various aspects of this relationship — an initiative that is part of the cycle Lisbon, Capital of International Intrigue.

 

Between Culture and Diplomacy: US / Portugal relations in the 1940s-70s

 

Este evento reúne especialistas na história das relação entre os EUA e Portugal, que apresentarão os seus mais recentes estudos sobre várias dimensões desta relação desde a Segunda Guerra Mundial até ao final do Estado Novo. Terá particular destaque o papel de práticas culturais enquanto formas de diplomacia, incluindo filmes como os que compõem o ciclo Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional, a decorrer na Cinemateca entre os dias 2 e 31 de Março. A sessão terminará com a exibição e discussão do documentário Adventures in the Empire: a mistold story (Rui Lopes, 2024), sobre as representação cinematográficas do colonialismo português em Macau.

Oradores/as:

Frédéric Vidal (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa), A Dinner with Roger Moore: Tourism and Portugal’s Cultural Policies in the Early 1960s
Miguel Moniz (ICS — Universidade de Lisboa), An Enemy of the State: the Associated Press, Salazar, and how Dennis Redmont’s Journalism Challenged a Dictatorship
Sara Antunes (ICS — Universidade de Lisboa), Report to the Senate: Allen Ellender’s Africa Tour and Estado Novo’s struggle for colonial legitimacy in the United States
Annarita Gori (ICS — Universidade de Lisboa), Navigating Space: American Astronauts in Lisbon (1966-71)
Rui Lopes (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST), Adventures in the Empire: a mistold story

 

ENTRADA LIVRE

 

>> Consulte o programa completo do ciclo AQUI (PDF)

 

 

O ciclo Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional resulta de uma colaboração entre a Cinemateca Portuguesa, o Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) e o projecto ExPORT (baseado no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa), com apoio da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, do Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lisbona, do Institut français du Portugal, do Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa e da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

 

Guided tour exploring locations that have been used in several films from the Lisbon, Capital of International Intrigue cycle, where spies (real and fictional) and filmmakers of various nationalities have passed through.

 

Visita guiada por Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional

 

Esta visita guiada vai explorar locais de rodagem recorrentes em vários filmes do ciclo Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional, por onde passaram espiões (reais e fictícios) e cineastas de várias nacionalidades. Começando no icónico Largo de Santo Estêvão, seguiremos pelo rio (presença fundamental nestas representações da cidade) e partilharemos histórias das filmagens na Praça do Comércio e na Baixa, onde foram encenados múltiplos tiroteios, perseguições e conspirações, subindo depois para o miradouro de São Pedro de Alcântara.

A visita será conduzida por Rui Lopes, curador do ciclo.

As pessoas interessadas, devem deslocar-se ao Largo de Santo Estêvão às 16h30. A visita terá início às 17h.

 

Após a visita, às 19h30 na Cinemateca, será projectado o filme Storm Over Lisbon / Tempestade em Lisboa, uma das obras que inaugurou a presença destes espaços no cinema de espionagem.

 

>> Consulte o programa completo do ciclo AQUI (PDF)

 

 

O ciclo Lisboa, Capital da Intriga Internacional resulta de uma colaboração entre a Cinemateca Portuguesa, o Instituto de História Contemporânea (IHC) e o projecto ExPORT (baseado no Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa), com apoio da Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento, do Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Lisbona, do Institut français du Portugal, do Instituto Cervantes de Lisboa e da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.

 

History and Image Workshop session, open and off-site: a conversation with Paula Albuquerque at the Tigre de Papel bookshop.

 

Becoming Opaque — A opacidade como resistência ao estereótipo fílmico

Paula Albuquerque (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)

 

Resumo:
O meu trabalho debruça-se sobre o cinema documental colonial a partir de uma perspectiva histórica, decolonial e anarquivista. Como artista e investigadora portuguesa, com ascendência indiana, e a residir entre Lisboa e Amesterdão, abordo os cinemas coloniais português e holandês enquanto formas de proto-vigilância, com enfoque nas políticas da representação. Investigo de que modo as técnicas cinematográficas contribuíram para a subjectificação dos povos indígenas nas ex-colónias europeias, ao construírem identidades visuais do “outro” que os posicionaram como subalternos e cujos ecos persistem em sistemas de vigilância contemporâneos. A minha prática anarquivista adopta estratégias visuais emancipatórias através da investigação artística, desafiando modos expropriadores de representação colonial.

A moderação será realizada por Luís Trindade.

 

Para mais informações: oficinahistoriaeimagem@gmail.com

 

 

Conference that intends to discuss how the new far-right of the 21st century positions itself in relation to the legacy of classical fascism. Deadline: 4 January 2026

 

From Fascism to Neo-Fascism?

(Dis)Continuities Between Classical Fascism and 21st Century’s Far-Right

 

 

The debate on the political, ideological and social nature of contemporary far-right, especially the one active in the 21st century, has been ongoing for a long time. Academic debate, in this case more than in others, closely follows the public debate on political developments that are perceived to have dramatic consequences for the future. A large number of positions have been proposed and a wide range of concepts offered, applicable to specific cases, whether national or regional in scope, or to the global phenomenon itself — because, let us start here, it is a global phenomenon we are dealing with. Just as fascism was a hundred years ago. However, research is almost always forced to take a position on the question of continuities (Finchelstein, 2019; Palheta, 2022) and discontinuities (Forti, 2024) between, on the one hand, classical fascism (1922-1945) and what were in those days other ultra-reactionary phenomena that in the interwar years became by-products of fascism through the process of fascistization, and, on the other hand, the new forms adopted by the far-right since 1945 and, above all, since the turn of the 20th century to the 21st century. In the name of the urgency of a scientific approach to what appears to be the most serious crisis of liberal systems since the 1930s, at this conference we intend to discuss how the new extreme right of the 21st century positions itself in relation to the legacy of classical fascism, because “we need to explain the continuity between historical fascism and contemporary right-wing populism as a radicalization of post-liberal politics based on the erosion of democratic participation and the emergence of a new politics of fear” (Woodley, 2010).

In line with this position, this conference will also welcome studies on the anti-fascist political cultures, starting with those that emerged in reaction to the fascist wave of the 1930s and its political success (Kallis, 2015). The aim here is to make room for studies on the variety of forms of resistance to fascism. Anti-fascism is also a transnational movement (Traverso, 2004), and it did not lose its political effectiveness in 1945 or become a community of memory of a past encapsulated in time. It has re-emerged over the last 80 years whenever the extreme right has reappeared in force. As is the case today.

We welcome different possible areas for papers and panels on:

(i) (Fascism(s), neo-fascism, far-right, reaction and modernity. Concepts and theory.
(ii) The nation, the West, white supremacy: one hundred years of far-right worldvisions.
(iii) Hypermasculinity, anti-feminism and misogyny: social reproduction and fascism.
(iv) One hundred years of far-right political culture: continuities, discontinuities, adaptation, networks.
(v) Fascism, neo-fascism and the other(s): specificities of fascist and global far-right political articulation of xenophobia and racism.
(vi) Party, State, movements, militias, welfare, associations. The organisational dimension of the far-right. (vii) Violence, war, and genocide: far-right and political action.
(viiii) Fascism and crisis: context and causality of far-right boosts in history.
(ix) Anti-fascism as a transnational political culture: resisting fascism, preserving democracy, rebuilding democracy, from the 1920s to the 2020s. Intersections with anti-colonialism, anti-racism and feminism.
(x) Neo-fascism, far-right and anti-fascism in collective memory: uses of the past, memory, “culture wars” and political action.

 

Submission and presentations:

Researchers interested in attending or contributing to the conference should send an email with a title, an abstract (350 words max.), short bio, and contact information to congresso.neo.fascismo.2026@gmail.com no later than 4 January 2026.

We welcome individual papers as well as panel proposals in English. We will also welcome proposals for creative/artistic interventions that are built on an interdisciplinary intersection with the social sciences, which will be subject to peer review in the same way as proposals for papers and panels. In this case, proposals must include a description of the performance (specifying the means and time) and an abstract of objectives. Acceptance will depend on the actual and practical possibilities for integration into the programme.

Presentations should be done in-person in Portuguese, English or Spanish. There will be no online presentations.

Notification of acceptance by 8 February 2026.

No registration fees will be charged.

 

Keynote speakers: Ugo Palheta, Virgínia Fontes, and Fernando Rosas

 

>> Download the call for proposals (New! PDF) <<

 

 

Organising committee:

 

Manuel Loff (FLUP / IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST) Luís Trindade (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Arturo Zoffmann (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Ana Sofia Ferreira (FLUP / IS — Universidade do Porto)
Sílvia Correia (FLUP / IS — Universidade do Porto)
Adriano Amaral (IS — Universidade do Porto)
Gabriela Azevedo (IS — Universidade do Porto)
Bruno Madeira (Universidade do Minho / Lab2PT / IN2PAST) Sérgio Neto (FLUP / CITCEM)
Afonso Silva (UAB / IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Carlos Martins (IS — Universidade do Porto)

 

 

Scientific Committee:

Caroline Silveira Bauer (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Francesca Billiani (University of Manchester, UK)
Kasper Braskén (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Gilberto Calil (Unioeste, Brazil)
Leonardo Carnut (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Rejane Carol (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
André Dantas (Fiocruz, Brazil)
Cristina Diac (The National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, Romania)
Fátima Moura Ferreira (University of Minho / Lab2PT / IN2PAST, Portugal)
Steven Forti (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Hugo García (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)
Cátia Guimarães (Fiocruz, Brazil)
Xosé Manoel Núñez Seixas (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Virgílio Borges Pereira (Universidade do Porto / IS, Portugal)
Fernando Rosas (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST, Portugal)
Carlos Zacarias de Sena Júnior (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil)
Carla Luciana Silva (Unioeste, Brazil)
Luís Reis Torgal (University of Coimbra / CEIS20, Portugal)
Vicente Valentim (IE University, Spain)

 

 

 

Two-day conference on the alter-lives of independence movements that explores the evolution and transformation of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles. Deadline: 13 February 2026

 

The Alter-lives of Independence Movements:

Frustrated Hopes, Renewed Utopias

 

Decades after formal decolonisation, anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism have remained a wellspring of inspiration and contestation. Studies about anticolonial thought, the 1955 Bandung Conference, and transcontinental solidarity movements have proliferated in academia and activist networks, providing the basis of theories and practices of resistance in contemporary times. Nevertheless, the ideas and the movements they inspired did not perish with the epoch that produced them. They evolved and acquired alternative lives in the period of nation-building and world-making, whether in extended or distorted forms. On the one hand, there were local and transnational efforts to sustain and enrich the revolutionary impulse through embracing the anticolonial spirit in various areas such as development, education, and diplomacy. As international institutions such as the UN welcome additional member states, Europeans and non-Europeans travelled to decolonised states like Algeria and Angola to learn and further cultivate ideas in building new societies. On the other hand, some dominant groups that took over the independent states capitalised on the anti-colonial pride to justify authoritarian and anti-democratic rule. Their utopian visions led to the systematic oppression of opposing forces and reproduced the hierarchical international state model. The fear of neocolonialism and disillusionment propelled both the former coloniser and colonised to reorganise their strategies and desires in the face of an emerging world order.

This two-day conference on the alter-lives of independence movements explores the evolution and transformation of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles. It focuses on the events and reflections about the early years of independence, a period of turbulent transition from colonial domination to self-governing nation-states, and of tumultuous beginnings of a new international order. We introduce the concept “alter-lives” to denote the process of altering imaginaries and practices that emerged during the colonial period in responding to uncertain futures, including the political uses of anticolonial memories and/or histories. It also refers to alternative relations forged between and among the former colonisers and colonised after independence. Thus, using “alter-lives” as a conceptual ground, this conference engages in the following questions: first, how have anticolonial thinking and practices evolved domestically and transnationally? Second, what were the structural and agential forces behind these evolutions? Third, how were anticolonial memories and histories politicised to achieve certain ends? Fourth, what difficulties did these agents face in realising their envisioned future? Lastly, how have alterations and alternatives affirmed and/or challenged the revolutionary ideas of the independence struggles?

 

 

Call for papers

 

We welcome theoretical and praxis-oriented proposals to gather scholars, activists, and artists from various disciplinary backgrounds and acquire a broad comparative perspective. Possible
areas include, but are not limited to:

• Transnational solidarities and resistance, such as North-South and South-South cooperation
• Nation-building
• Anticolonial thought and figures
• Diplomacy and international affairs
• Pedagogy and knowledge transmission
• Literary and artistic representations, such as documentaries, films, and novels
• Rhetorics of failure, frustrated political projects

 

Please submit your abstract (300 words max.) by 13 February 2026 to jiw.hopesandfears@gmail.com.

Decisions will be communicated by the first week of March 2026.

 

>> Download the call for papers (PDF) <<

 

This event is organised as part of the Joint International Workshop “Hopes and Fears. Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Lusotopy and Beyond”, that gathers the Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA University Lisbon / University of Évora, the University of São Paulo, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul.

 

 

Conference that seeks to challenge historical revisionism, amplify marginalised voices, and foster transnational dialogues on reconciliation, accountability, and restorative justice. Deadline: 30 November 7 December 2025 [new deadline]

 

The Public History of Difficult Pasts

8th International Conference on Public History

IFPH 2026

 

The 8th International Conference on Public History, organised by the International Federation for Public History, IFPH, will take place in Lisbon from September 7 to 11, 2026. It will be hosted by IN2PAST – the Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory, a transdisciplinary consortium of seven research centres, at the Almada Negreiros College on the Campolide Campus of NOVA University Lisbon.

In a time of escalating attacks by right-wing movements on memory, diversity, human rights, democracy, and history itself, the IFPH reaffirms its commitment to fostering critical engagement with the ways societies confront, interpret, and relate to their difficult pasts and challenging presents. The IFPH strongly condemns book banning, the censorship of historical narratives, the surveillance of students and educators, the targeting of sites of remembrance, and the imposition of ideological agendas — particularly right-wing distortions — that not only threaten academic freedom but undermine the very principles upon which public history is built. Against this backdrop, the conference seeks to challenge historical revisionism and silencing, to amplify marginalised voices and memories, and to promote transnational dialogues on reconciliation, accountability, and restorative justice.

Public History has long addressed global historical processes such as colonialism, the transatlantic slave trade, and the genocide of Indigenous peoples, as well as phenomena that emerge in multiple contexts, including armed conflicts and dictatorships. It embodies both a political and ethical commitment to examining how difficult pasts have been lived and remembered by different communities and individuals, ensuring that their perspectives are acknowledged and respected. At the same time, engaging with these histories through Public History raises significant challenges. Sharing authority with specific communities and amplifying marginalised narratives may unintentionally silence other voices, while also presenting complex ethical dilemmas. Furthermore, Public History operates within the public sphere, engaging diverse audiences and navigating competing representations of the past in an era increasingly marked by the political instrumentalisation of history and the spread of revisionist and denialist discourses.

 

 

Call for contributions

 

This conference seeks to challenge historical revisionism, amplify marginalised voices, and foster transnational dialogues on reconciliation, accountability, and restorative justice. We invite contributions that explore:

 

Historical Contexts and Global Processes

• • Colonialism and its enduring legacies
  • The transatlantic slave trade and its commemorations
  • Indigenous genocide and cultural destruction
  • Armed conflicts, civil wars, and their aftermath
  • Dictatorships, authoritarianism, and state violence
  • Mass atrocities and crimes against humanity

Contemporary Challenges and Methodological Innovations

• • Countering historical denial and revisionism
  • Navigating contested memories and competing narratives
  • Sharing authority with affected communities
  • Ethical dilemmas in representing traumatic pasts
  • Digital humanities, media, and social networks
  • Museum practices and memorial sites
  • Archives, and archival activism
  • Educational approaches to sensitive histories

Voices and Perspectives

• • Survivor testimonies and intergenerational trauma
  • Community-based historical projects
  • Oral history and marginalised narratives
  • Gender, sexuality, and intersectional approaches
  • Youth engagement with difficult pasts
  • Transnational and comparative perspectives

Justice and Reconciliation

• • Truth commissions and transitional justice
  • Reparations and historical redress
  • Memorialisation and commemoration practices
  • Restorative justice approaches
  • Healing and collective memory
  • Building inclusive historical narratives

 

 

Calendar

Opening of the Call for Presentations: 30 September 2025
Deadline for Application: 30 November 7 December 2025 [new deadline]
Deadline for reviewers to do their reviews: 31 January 2026
Call for posters: January 2026
Results of the Call for Presentations will be announced by March 2026
Programme of the conference shall be available around June 2026
Deadline for registration for on-site attendance: August 2026
Conference: 7-11 September 2026

 

Submission of proposals

🔗 Submit your panel proposal HERE.
🔗 Submit your paper proposal HERE.
🔗 Submit your Working Group proposal HERE.

 

>> Download the call for papers (PDF) <<

 

 

Picture: Peniche Fortress, Fortim Redondo, site of the infamous isolation cells (‘Segredo’) (Credit: © Paulo)

 

Two-day conference on the alter-lives of independence movements that explores the evolution and transformation of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles. Deadline: 13 February 2026

 

The Alter-lives of Independence Movements:

Frustrated Hopes, Renewed Utopias

 

Decades after formal decolonisation, anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism have remained a wellspring of inspiration and contestation. Studies about anticolonial thought, the 1955 Bandung Conference, and transcontinental solidarity movements have proliferated in academia and activist networks, providing the basis of theories and practices of resistance in contemporary times. Nevertheless, the ideas and the movements they inspired did not perish with the epoch that produced them. They evolved and acquired alternative lives in the period of nation-building and world-making, whether in extended or distorted forms. On the one hand, there were local and transnational efforts to sustain and enrich the revolutionary impulse through embracing the anticolonial spirit in various areas such as development, education, and diplomacy. As international institutions such as the UN welcome additional member states, Europeans and non-Europeans travelled to decolonised states like Algeria and Angola to learn and further cultivate ideas in building new societies. On the other hand, some dominant groups that took over the independent states capitalised on the anti-colonial pride to justify authoritarian and anti-democratic rule. Their utopian visions led to the systematic oppression of opposing forces and reproduced the hierarchical international state model. The fear of neocolonialism and disillusionment propelled both the former coloniser and colonised to reorganise their strategies and desires in the face of an emerging world order.

This two-day conference on the alter-lives of independence movements explores the evolution and transformation of anti-colonial and anti-imperial struggles. It focuses on the events and reflections about the early years of independence, a period of turbulent transition from colonial domination to self-governing nation-states, and of tumultuous beginnings of a new international order. We introduce the concept “alter-lives” to denote the process of altering imaginaries and practices that emerged during the colonial period in responding to uncertain futures, including the political uses of anticolonial memories and/or histories. It also refers to alternative relations forged between and among the former colonisers and colonised after independence. Thus, using “alter-lives” as a conceptual ground, this conference engages in the following questions: first, how have anticolonial thinking and practices evolved domestically and transnationally? Second, what were the structural and agential forces behind these evolutions? Third, how were anticolonial memories and histories politicised to achieve certain ends? Fourth, what difficulties did these agents face in realising their envisioned future? Lastly, how have alterations and alternatives affirmed and/or challenged the revolutionary ideas of the independence struggles?

 

 

Call for papers

 

We welcome theoretical and praxis-oriented proposals to gather scholars, activists, and artists from various disciplinary backgrounds and acquire a broad comparative perspective. Possible
areas include, but are not limited to:

• Transnational solidarities and resistance, such as North-South and South-South cooperation
• Nation-building
• Anticolonial thought and figures
• Diplomacy and international affairs
• Pedagogy and knowledge transmission
• Literary and artistic representations, such as documentaries, films, and novels
• Rhetorics of failure, frustrated political projects

 

Please submit your abstract (300 words max.) by 13 February 2026 to jiw.hopesandfears@gmail.com.

Decisions will be communicated by the first week of March 2026.

 

>> Download the call for papers (PDF) <<

 

This event is organised as part of the Joint International Workshop “Hopes and Fears. Anti-colonial and Postcolonial Imaginaries in the Lusotopy and Beyond”, that gathers the Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA University Lisbon / University of Évora, the University of São Paulo, and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul.