Second session of the 2021 edition of the permanent seminar on Global Histories of the 1974-75 Revolution, with Pedro Silva Rei.

Histórias Globais da Revolução de 1974-1975

Seminário Permanente

[Global Histories of the 1974-75 Revolution]

Quase cinco décadas após os acontecimentos que sucederam ao 25 de Abril de 1974, é hoje mais clara a teia de relações globais em que estes se inseriram. Das descolonizações africanas à radicalização social e política dos longos anos 60, passando pelo esgotamento do ciclo de crescimento económico do pós-guerra, a Revolução de 1974-75 foi definida e ajudou a definir um conjunto de processos históricos que transcendem os seus limites geográficos. Por outro lado, aqueles anos coincidiram com mudanças de paradigma produtivo e intelectual, bem como com reconfigurações políticas que se prolongaram até à década de 1980. Que relações estabelece a Revolução com estes processos de transformação?

Evoluções recentes na historiografia e outras áreas de saber – incluindo os desafios colocados pela história global e transnacional às clássicas histórias nacionais, ou a relação entre as narrativas historiográficas e outras mediações, nomeadamente audiovisuais – constituem uma boa oportunidade para repensar a historicidade da Revolução e reinventar as suas narrativas e representações. O seminário desafia assim investigadores/as e outros/as criadores/as a apresentar novas perspetivas sobre o tema, privilegiando aquelas que o insiram em grandes fenómenos transnacionais contemporâneos (a começar pela forte mobilização política de base que marca o período) e/ou que explorem formas narrativas alternativas.

Com periodicidade mensal e duração indefinida, o seminário incluirá sessões com formatos diversos, como a apresentação de investigações em curso, discussão de textos, projecção de materiais audiovisuais, mesas-redondas, etc. Simultaneamente, as sessões poderão decorrer em qualquer uma das três instituições envolvidas na organização (IHC — NOVA FCSH, CEIS20 — Universidade de Coimbra e University of Cambridge), combinando formatos presenciais e à distância, de forma a permitir uma participação tão ampla quanto possível de académicos/as, artistas e outros/as que aqui queiram apresentar o seu trabalho, bem como do público em geral.

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Programme:

15 April  |  Histórias globais da revolução [Global Histories of Revolution]
Rita Lucas Narra, Ricardo Noronha, Pedro Ramos Pinto, Luís Trindade

13 May  |  Entre a religião e a política: para uma história global do catolicismo de esquerda no contexto do PREC [Between religion and politics: for a global history of left-wing Catholicism in the context of PREC]
Pedro Silva Rei (IHC — NOVA FCSH / Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa — UCP)

17 June  |  The Portuguese revolution and Soviet intervention in Angola, 1974-1975: new evidence from the Russian archives
Natalia Telepneva (University of Stratchclyde)

15 July  |  The political economy of the Carnation Revolution: a world-system analysis
Ricardo Noronha (Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA FCSH)

Organisation:

Rita Lucas Narra (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Pedro Ramos Pinto (University of Cambridge)
Luís Trindade (CEIS20 — University of Coimbra)

Session of the book club organised by the IHC, this time dedicated to a book by Miguel Carvalho about the relationship between Amália Rodrigues and the Estado Novo regime. Debate included in the series of events organised by the IHC to mark the anniversary of the 25th of April Revolution. Live-streamed at the IHC’s YouTube channel.

Através dos Livros: Amália – Ditadura e Revolução

A terceira sessão de 2021 do ciclo Através dos Livros tem como convidado o jornalista Miguel Carvalho, que apresentará o seu livro Amália – Ditadura e Revolução. A História Secreta (Dom Quixote, 2020). Os comentários estarão a cargo do antropólogo Nuno Domingos (ICS — Universidade de Lisboa) e a moderação será de Manuel Deniz Silva (INET-md — NOVA FCSH).

Os participantes poderão colocar questões através do chat no nosso canal YouTube.

Evento integrado no programa de Iniciativas do IHC que assinalam o aniversário do 25 de Abril.

Sobre o ciclo:
Num momento em que os sistemas de avaliação universitários tendem cada vez mais a premiar o artigo em revistas especializadas, o IHC que, com esta iniciativa, sublinhar a importância do livro (e da monografia em particular) como veículo por excelência para a difusão do saber histórico e, também, para o debate de ideias. Neste espaço de discussão, será dada prioridade a obras recentes que correspondam a investigações originais e/ou sínteses que se proponham a desafiar ou rever paradigmas vigentes.

First part of the theoretical-methodological seminar organised by IHC’s thematic line dedicated to research on State building and change in modern society.

Histórias Conectadas: Construção do Estado, Movimentos Sociais e Economia Política

Seminário teórico-metodológico 2021

A Linha Temática Histórias Conectadas organiza um seminário teórico-metodológico dividido em duas jornadas (15 de Maio e 2 de Outubro).

A primeira sessão realiza-se exclusivamente à distância, via plataforma Zoom, e a sua programação inclui:

10:00 – Abertura

10:15: Ana Sofia Ferreira: “Para um estudo da violência política – enfoques metodológicos“

11:00: Debate & pausa

11:45: Gabriela Azevedo: “Teoria da Reprodução Social e a análise das relações sociais capitalistas nas pesquisas acadêmicas“

12:30: Debate & pausa

14:30: Marta Silva: “Securitização: uma teoria de segurança para a organização política“

15:15: Debate & pausa

17:00: Arturo Zoffmann: “Towards a transnational history of revolution“

17:45: Debate

18:15: Encerramento

A participação é aberta a todos/as os interessados, através deste link.

Organização de Manuel Loff.

>> 📎 Programa (PDF) <<

Debate included in the series of events organised by the IHC to mark the anniversary of the 25th of April Revolution. Live-streamed at the IHC’s  YouTube channel.

As Ciências Sociais e a História do Portugal Democrático

Reunimos à mesma mesa o historiador e sociólogo Jorge Pedreira (IHC — NOVA FCSH) e o antropólogo João Leal (CRIA — NOVA FCSH) para uma conversa em torno do modo como tradições disciplinares diferentes, como a sociologia histórica e a antropologia, podem contribuir para o estudo da sociedade portuguesa das últimas décadas.

Com moderação de Inês Brasão (IHC — NOVA FCSH e Instituto Politécnico de Leiria).

Evento que encerra o programa de iniciativas do IHC que assinalam o aniversário do 25 de Abril.

Imagem: Capa de O Século Ilustrado, n.º 1896, 4 de Maio 1974 (Fonte: Hemeroteca Digital de Lisboa)

Online seminar organised by the research group on Global History of Labour and Social Conflicts about reserach on women in contemporary Portugal.

No âmbito do Ciclo Anual de Seminários do Grupo de Investigação em História Global do Trabalho e dos Conflitos Sociais, convidamos todas e todos para debaterem connosco algumas perspectivas na pesquisa historiográfica sobre mulheres em Portugal na contemporaneidade.

No dia 20 de Maio de 2021, às 18:00h, no canal YouTube do IHC, apresentaremos as seguintes comunicações, como moderação de Ana Cláudia Henriques (NOVA FCSH):

• Manuela Gonzaga | Maria Adelaide Coelho da Cunha: Loucura Lúcida ou Moral? 1918-1944
  Doutoranda, mestre em História da Expansão Portuguesa (NOVA FCSH). Escritora, com 14 livros publicados (Bertrand Editora). Parte da sua obra está traduzida e editada em francês.
• Pamela Peres Cabreira | Lutas de Mulheres Operárias durante o PREC
  Licenciada e Mestre em História Social pela UFRRJ e doutoranda em História Contemporânea na NOVA FCSH; investigadora integrada no IHC — NOVA FCSH.
• Virgínia Baptista – Mulheres: Trabalho e Activismo
  Investigadora no IHC — NOVA FCSH, desenvolve atualmente um projecto de pós-doutoramento. É licenciada em História pela Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Mestre e Doutora pelo ISCTE-IUL em História Económica e Social Contemporânea.

Ninth session of the second round of the research seminar of IHC’s Thematic Line Uses of the Past: Memory and Cultural Heritade. Session conducted by Vítor Oliveira Jorge.

Usos do passado, memória e património cultural

As sessões deste seminário podem ser uma ocasião de apresentação de pesquisa por parte de investigadores convidados e visitantes, ou incorporarem textos teóricos, destinados a leitura e debate por parte de quem participa. Os textos de estudo serão enviados a quem os solicitar, através de um mail enviado a Ema Pires, epires@uevora.pt .

Como o seminário pressupõe continuidade, enviar-se-ão os textos do ano anterior, se necessário.

Todas as sessões terão lugar no Colégio Almada Negreiros, sendo indicada a sala com a antecedência que nos seja possível (devido às limitações de espaço provocadas pela pandemia de COVID-19). Excepto quando indicado o contrário, terão início às 18h00.

Programa Setembro 2020 — Junho 2021

29 de Setembro, 18h00, Auditório A223

Texto a discutir: Fontana, Josep “Una reflexión sobre la visibilidad histórica del capitalismo”, Capitalismo y democracia, 1756-1848. Como empezó este engano, Barcelona, Editorial Crítica:149-155. [link]
Apresentado por Paula Godinho

28 de Outubro, 18h00, Sala SC

Texto a discutir: Jelin, Elisabete “Memoria y democracia. Una relación incierta” Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 59 (2014): 225-242 [PDF]
Apresentado por Maria Alice Samara

24 de Novembro, 18h00, Sessão Virtual

Texto a discutir: Frantz Fanon. “Racisme et culture,” Présence Africaine VIII-IX-X (1956): 121-131 [link]  /  “Em Defesa da Revolução Africana”, apresentado no I.° Congresso dos Escritores e Artistas Negros em Paris, em Setembro de 1956. [link]
Apresentado por João Carlos Louçã

15 de Dezembro 18 de Dezembro, 18h00, Sessão virtual

Texto a discutir: Anne Monjaret & Mélanie Roustan. “Digestion patrimoniale. Contestations autour d’un ancien musée des colonies à Paris,” Civilisations. Revue internationale d’anthropologie et de sciences humaines 61 (2012): 23-42. [PDF]
Apresentado por Ema Pires

26 de Janeiro, 18h00, Sessão Virtual

Texto a discutir: González-Ruibal, Alfredo, “Contra la Pospolítica: Arqueología de la Guerra Civil Española” Revista Chilena de Antropología 22 (2010): 9-32. [link]
Apresentado por Xurxo Ayán Vila

23 de Fevereiro, 18h00, Sessão virtual [CANCELADA]

Texto a discutir: Price, Sally, 2013, “The Enduring Power of Primitivism Showcasing “the Other”in Twenty-First-Century France” in A Companion to Modern African Art, editado por Gitti Salami e Monica Blackmun Visonà, 447-465. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [link]
Apresentado por Vera Marques Alves

23 de Março, 18h00, Sessão virtual

Texto a discutir: Ruin,Hans, “The claim of the past – historical consciousness as memory, haunting, and responsibility in Nietzsche and beyond”, Journal of Curriculum Studies 51 (2019): 798-813. [PDF]
Apresentado por Pedro Martins

20 de Abril, 18h00, sala a designar

Texto a anunciar

25 de Maio, 18h00, sala a designar

Texto a discutir: Descolas, Philipe & Tim Ingold. Être au monde : quelle expérience commune ? Lyon, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2014. [link]
Apresentado por Vítor Oliveira Jorge

22 de Junho, 18h00, sala a designar

Conferência a anunciar

Imagem do cartaz: Estátua de Viriato feita em cimento, localizada sobre um penedo, no topo da Serra da Estrela, e que foi derrubada por jovens estudantes após o 25 de Abril, em Junho de 1974. A foto recolhe o momento desse acto de damnatio memoriae.

[POSTPONED to June 2022] International colloquium about the crucial role of violence in political and social conflicts that shaped the twentieth century. Call ends 15 June 2020 1 Sepetember 2020

IV International Colloquium on Political Violence in the Twentieth Century

In March 2015, the International Colloquium on Political Violence in the Twentieth Century was held at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. The meeting was supposed to draw attention to the crucial role of violence in political and social conflicts that shaped the twentieth century. Another purpose was to broaden the perspective on various forms of political violence. The presence of a large number of historians and scholars from other areas of the humanities and social sciences encouraged thought-provoking debate, and led to the creation of the International Network on Political Violence. Since then, this network has been organizing biennial colloquiums. In June 2017, the meeting in Niterói (Brazil) was hosted by the Centre for Contemporary Studies (NEC) of the Universidade Federal Fluminense. In April 2019, the colloquium was held at Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina). It took place under the auspices of the Network for Studies of Repression and Political Violence (RER) and coincided with the IV Working Sessions of the RER. In order to continue this enriching scholarly exchange, the IV International Colloquium on Political Violence in the Twentieth Century will be held in Barcelona from 16 to 18 June 2021.

Call for panels and papers (📎 PDF)

Thematic core areas

• Armed conflicts
  Twentieth-century wars are definitely no longer just conflicts between armies. They affect entire populations, who find themselves either under occupation or in the rear. Occupation usually has a strong effect on the resilience of defeated armies and the civilian population (concentration camps, forced labour, etc.). Occupying forces seek to benefit from the resources of occupied countries in order to boost their war effort. In the rear, governments aim to suppress any dissent that might affect internal unity. Thus, the exercise of violence tends to grow exponentially..
• State and state-sponsored violence
  In addition to repressive legal practices controlled by justice systems, states (especially undemocratic ones) draw on a whole set of illegal practices, which consist of covert activity of state agencies and security forces, and the use of networks of formal and informal civilian collaborators, who can be either part of co-ordinated activities or act autonomously.
• Riots and armed uprisings
  Violence by non-state actors has been a constant feature of conflicts throughout the twentieth century. This thematic core area aims to bring together contributions that study all kinds of political and social violence of this particular type: from riots and insurrections to guerrillas and other instances of armed violence.
• Gender and political violence
  Recently, the gender perspective has become increasingly important in the study of different contemporary phenomena. Research related to political violence is certainly part of this trend. This thematic core area is supposed to bring together contributions that take on this perspective, e. g. studies focusing on violence against women and research concerned with women participating and taking the lead in violent practices.
• Memory, conflict resolution, justice and reparation
  In societies with traumatic and violent historical experiences, the process of public memory building is an area of dispute, and occasionally of consensus. The debate about the politics of public memory is an expression of these tensions. At the same time, various mechanisms of conflict resolution help overcome these experiences and their effects, as do the measures of transitional justice and reparation for victims. This thematic core area will include contributions related to this broad topic.

Submission of papers and panels

The process of proposal submission is now open. Proposals must be related to one of the topics mentioned in the five thematic core areas. They
may include:

— Individual papers;
— Panels with three or four participants who present papers on related topics.

The final texts and panels that are accepted by the Scientific Committee will be assigned to the sessions that structure the colloquium. The deadlines are as follows:

• Presentation of paper and panel proposals: until 15 June 2020 1 September 2020— Paper proposals must include the following data: surname and first name of the author, area of study or work, work or research centre, e-mail, phone, title of the paper and an abstract (maximum 200 words).— Panel proposals must include in a single document: a title, a brief presentation (maximum 150 words), a contact person, and the details of each individual paper as specified in the previous point.The Scientific Committee will evaluate the submitted proposals. The acceptance notification will be sent no later than 15 July 2020.
• Paper submission: until 15 January 2021.The text must be submitted in Word format, with a maximum length of 8,000 words, including notes. Further format requirements will be specified in the second circular. The Scientific Committee will evaluate the submissions and send the acceptance notification no later than 15 February 2021.

The second circular will also contain information about the terms and modalities of registration for participating in the colloquium.

Paper and panel proposals, as well as the full text papers, can be submitted in Catalan, English, Portuguese and Spanish. All papers accepted and presented at the colloquium will be published in colloquium proceedings with an ISBN.

Paper and panel proposals and the full text papers must be sent to the following e-mail address: cedid@uab.cat.

Scientific Committee

Daniel Aãrao Reis (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
Luciano Alonso (CESIL / Universidad Nacional del Litoral)
Ernesto Bohoslavsky (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento – CONICET)
Pilar Calveiro (Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México)
Xavier Domènech (UAB)
Norberto Ferreras (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
Jordi Font (Director, Memorial Democràtic de la Generalitat de Catalunya)
Marina Franco (Universidad Nacional de San Martín – CONICET)
François Godicheau (Université Toulouse 2 – Jean Jaurès)
Gutmaro Gómez Bravo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Manuel Loff ( Instituto de História Contemporânea – NOVA FCSH; Universidade do Porto)
Daniel Lvovich (Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento – CONICET)
Jordi Mir (UPF)
Carme Molinero (UAB)
Jordi Rabassa (Vereador, Regidoria de Memòria Democràtica de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona)
Manel Risques (Universitat de Barcelona, UB)
Javier Rodrigo (UAB)
Fernando Rosas (Instituto de História Contemporânea – NOVA FCSH)
Verónica Valdivia Ortiz de Zárate (Universidad Diego Portales, Chile)
Francesc Vilanova (UAB)
Ricard Vinyes (UB)
Pere Ysàs (UAB)
Mercedes Yusta (Université Paris 8)

Organising Committee

Gabriela Águila (Universidad Nacional de Rosario – CONICET)
David Ballester (UAB)
Pau Casanellas (Instituto de História Contemporânea – NOVA FCSH)
Janaína Cordeiro (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
Ana Sofia Ferreira (Instituto de História Contemporânea – NOVA FCSH)
Santiago Garaño (CONICET-UNTREF-UNLa)
Gennadi Kneper (UAB)
João Madeira (Instituto de História Contemporânea – NOVA FCSH)
Lívia Magalhães (Universidade Federal Fluminense)
Martí Marín (UAB)
Ricard Martínez i Muntada (UAB)
Pablo Scatizza (UNCO)
Javier Tébar (Fundació Cipriano García; Universitat de Barcelona)

Organising Institutions

Rede Internacional sobre Violência Política / International Network on Political Violence
Centre d’Estudis sobre Dictadures i Democràcies / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (CEDID-UAB)
Fundació Cipriano García – CC OO de Catalunya
Memorial Democràtic de la Generalitat de Catalunya
Regidoria de Memòria Democràtica de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona

Instituto de História Contemporânea – Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (IHC – NOVA FCSH)
Instituto de História (IHT) e Núcleo de Estudos Contemporâneos (NEC) / Universidade Federal Fluminense
Red de Estudios sobre Represión y Violencia Política (RER)

Centre d’Estudis sobre Moviments Socials (CEMS) / Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Escola de Cultura de Pau / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Image adapted from: (1971), “As Armas do Povo”, nº 1, June 1971, Mário Soares Foundation / DRO – Mário Rodrigues’ Documents (Source)

Third session of the 2021 edition of the permanent seminar on Global Histories of the 1974-75 Revolution, with Natalia Telepneva.

Histórias Globais da Revolução de 1974-1975

Seminário Permanente

[Global Histories of the 1974-75 Revolution]

Quase cinco décadas após os acontecimentos que sucederam ao 25 de Abril de 1974, é hoje mais clara a teia de relações globais em que estes se inseriram. Das descolonizações africanas à radicalização social e política dos longos anos 60, passando pelo esgotamento do ciclo de crescimento económico do pós-guerra, a Revolução de 1974-75 foi definida e ajudou a definir um conjunto de processos históricos que transcendem os seus limites geográficos. Por outro lado, aqueles anos coincidiram com mudanças de paradigma produtivo e intelectual, bem como com reconfigurações políticas que se prolongaram até à década de 1980. Que relações estabelece a Revolução com estes processos de transformação?

Evoluções recentes na historiografia e outras áreas de saber – incluindo os desafios colocados pela história global e transnacional às clássicas histórias nacionais, ou a relação entre as narrativas historiográficas e outras mediações, nomeadamente audiovisuais – constituem uma boa oportunidade para repensar a historicidade da Revolução e reinventar as suas narrativas e representações. O seminário desafia assim investigadores/as e outros/as criadores/as a apresentar novas perspetivas sobre o tema, privilegiando aquelas que o insiram em grandes fenómenos transnacionais contemporâneos (a começar pela forte mobilização política de base que marca o período) e/ou que explorem formas narrativas alternativas.

Com periodicidade mensal e duração indefinida, o seminário incluirá sessões com formatos diversos, como a apresentação de investigações em curso, discussão de textos, projecção de materiais audiovisuais, mesas-redondas, etc. Simultaneamente, as sessões poderão decorrer em qualquer uma das três instituições envolvidas na organização (IHC — NOVA FCSH, CEIS20 — Universidade de Coimbra e University of Cambridge), combinando formatos presenciais e à distância, de forma a permitir uma participação tão ampla quanto possível de académicos/as, artistas e outros/as que aqui queiram apresentar o seu trabalho, bem como do público em geral.

🔗 Free registration

📎 Download programme (PDF)

Programme:

15 April  |  Histórias globais da revolução [Global Histories of Revolution]
Rita Lucas Narra, Ricardo Noronha, Pedro Ramos Pinto, Luís Trindade

13 May  |  Entre a religião e a política: para uma história global do catolicismo de esquerda no contexto do PREC [Between religion and politics: for a global history of left-wing Catholicism in the context of PREC]
Pedro Silva Rei (IHC — NOVA FCSH / Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa — UCP)

17 June  |  The Portuguese revolution and Soviet intervention in Angola, 1974-1975: new evidence from the Russian archives
Natalia Telepneva (University of Stratchclyde)

15 July  |  The political economy of the Carnation Revolution: a world-system analysis
Ricardo Noronha (Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA FCSH)

Organisation:

Rita Lucas Narra (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Pedro Ramos Pinto (University of Cambridge)
Luís Trindade (CEIS20 — University of Coimbra)

Tenth session of the second round of the research seminar of IHC’s Thematic Line Uses of the Past: Memory and Cultural Heritade. Lecturer TBA.

Usos do passado, memória e património cultural

As sessões deste seminário podem ser uma ocasião de apresentação de pesquisa por parte de investigadores convidados e visitantes, ou incorporarem textos teóricos, destinados a leitura e debate por parte de quem participa. Os textos de estudo serão enviados a quem os solicitar, através de um mail enviado a Ema Pires, epires@uevora.pt .

Como o seminário pressupõe continuidade, enviar-se-ão os textos do ano anterior, se necessário.

Todas as sessões terão lugar no Colégio Almada Negreiros, sendo indicada a sala com a antecedência que nos seja possível (devido às limitações de espaço provocadas pela pandemia de COVID-19). Excepto quando indicado o contrário, terão início às 18h00.

Programa Setembro 2020 — Junho 2021

29 de Setembro, 18h00, Auditório A223

Texto a discutir: Fontana, Josep “Una reflexión sobre la visibilidad histórica del capitalismo”, Capitalismo y democracia, 1756-1848. Como empezó este engano, Barcelona, Editorial Crítica:149-155. [link]
Apresentado por Paula Godinho

28 de Outubro, 18h00, Sala SC

Texto a discutir: Jelin, Elisabete “Memoria y democracia. Una relación incierta” Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 59 (2014): 225-242 [PDF]
Apresentado por Maria Alice Samara

24 de Novembro, 18h00, Sessão Virtual

Texto a discutir: Frantz Fanon. “Racisme et culture,” Présence Africaine VIII-IX-X (1956): 121-131 [link]  /  “Em Defesa da Revolução Africana”, apresentado no I.° Congresso dos Escritores e Artistas Negros em Paris, em Setembro de 1956. [link]
Apresentado por João Carlos Louçã

15 de Dezembro 18 de Dezembro, 18h00, Sessão virtual

Texto a discutir: Anne Monjaret & Mélanie Roustan. “Digestion patrimoniale. Contestations autour d’un ancien musée des colonies à Paris,” Civilisations. Revue internationale d’anthropologie et de sciences humaines 61 (2012): 23-42. [PDF]
Apresentado por Ema Pires

26 de Janeiro, 18h00, Sessão Virtual

Texto a discutir: González-Ruibal, Alfredo, “Contra la Pospolítica: Arqueología de la Guerra Civil Española” Revista Chilena de Antropología 22 (2010): 9-32. [link]
Apresentado por Xurxo Ayán Vila

23 de Fevereiro, 18h00, Sessão virtual [CANCELADA]

Texto a discutir: Price, Sally, 2013, “The Enduring Power of Primitivism Showcasing “the Other”in Twenty-First-Century France” in A Companion to Modern African Art, editado por Gitti Salami e Monica Blackmun Visonà, 447-465. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [link]
Apresentado por Vera Marques Alves

23 de Março, 18h00, Sessão virtual

Texto a discutir: Ruin,Hans, “The claim of the past – historical consciousness as memory, haunting, and responsibility in Nietzsche and beyond”, Journal of Curriculum Studies 51 (2019): 798-813. [PDF]
Apresentado por Pedro Martins

20 de Abril, 18h00, sala a designar

Texto a anunciar

25 de Maio, 18h00, sala a designar

Texto a discutir: Descolas, Philipe & Tim Ingold. Être au monde : quelle expérience commune ? Lyon, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2014. [link]
Apresentado por Vítor Oliveira Jorge

22 de Junho, 18h00, sala a designar

Conferência a anunciar

Imagem do cartaz: Estátua de Viriato feita em cimento, localizada sobre um penedo, no topo da Serra da Estrela, e que foi derrubada por jovens estudantes após o 25 de Abril, em Junho de 1974. A foto recolhe o momento desse acto de damnatio memoriae.

Fourth session of the 2021 edition of the permanent seminar on Global Histories of the 1974-75 Revolution, with Ricardo Noronha.

Histórias Globais da Revolução de 1974-1975

Seminário Permanente

[Global Histories of the 1974-75 Revolution]

Quase cinco décadas após os acontecimentos que sucederam ao 25 de Abril de 1974, é hoje mais clara a teia de relações globais em que estes se inseriram. Das descolonizações africanas à radicalização social e política dos longos anos 60, passando pelo esgotamento do ciclo de crescimento económico do pós-guerra, a Revolução de 1974-75 foi definida e ajudou a definir um conjunto de processos históricos que transcendem os seus limites geográficos. Por outro lado, aqueles anos coincidiram com mudanças de paradigma produtivo e intelectual, bem como com reconfigurações políticas que se prolongaram até à década de 1980. Que relações estabelece a Revolução com estes processos de transformação?

Evoluções recentes na historiografia e outras áreas de saber – incluindo os desafios colocados pela história global e transnacional às clássicas histórias nacionais, ou a relação entre as narrativas historiográficas e outras mediações, nomeadamente audiovisuais – constituem uma boa oportunidade para repensar a historicidade da Revolução e reinventar as suas narrativas e representações. O seminário desafia assim investigadores/as e outros/as criadores/as a apresentar novas perspetivas sobre o tema, privilegiando aquelas que o insiram em grandes fenómenos transnacionais contemporâneos (a começar pela forte mobilização política de base que marca o período) e/ou que explorem formas narrativas alternativas.

Com periodicidade mensal e duração indefinida, o seminário incluirá sessões com formatos diversos, como a apresentação de investigações em curso, discussão de textos, projecção de materiais audiovisuais, mesas-redondas, etc. Simultaneamente, as sessões poderão decorrer em qualquer uma das três instituições envolvidas na organização (IHC — NOVA FCSH, CEIS20 — Universidade de Coimbra e University of Cambridge), combinando formatos presenciais e à distância, de forma a permitir uma participação tão ampla quanto possível de académicos/as, artistas e outros/as que aqui queiram apresentar o seu trabalho, bem como do público em geral.

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Programme:

15 April  |  Histórias globais da revolução [Global Histories of Revolution]
Rita Lucas Narra, Ricardo Noronha, Pedro Ramos Pinto, Luís Trindade

13 May  |  Entre a religião e a política: para uma história global do catolicismo de esquerda no contexto do PREC [Between religion and politics: for a global history of left-wing Catholicism in the context of PREC]
Pedro Silva Rei (IHC — NOVA FCSH / Centro de Estudos de História Religiosa — UCP)

17 June  |  The Portuguese revolution and Soviet intervention in Angola, 1974-1975: new evidence from the Russian archives
Natalia Telepneva (University of Stratchclyde)

15 July  |  The political economy of the Carnation Revolution: a world-system analysis
Ricardo Noronha (Institute of Contemporary History — NOVA FCSH)

Organisation:

Rita Lucas Narra (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Ricardo Noronha (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Pedro Ramos Pinto (University of Cambridge)
Luís Trindade (CEIS20 — University of Coimbra)

Congress of the European Committee for Sports History and the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport that aims to explore the historical configurations of the sports field and its relationship with a broad range of political processes. Call open until 31 March 2021 10 May 2021.

Sport and Politics from Antiquity to the Modern Day

Joint 2021 CESH / ISHPES Congress

The congress will be held in a mixed mode (online and in-person), to allow participation by all those who are unable to travel to Lisbon, given the mobility restrictions imposed by the pandemic crisis.

The 24th edition of CESH has been postponed and will be held from 14 to 16 September 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal, held jointly with the ISHPES congress. The theme of the CESH/ISHPES 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 2021 CESH/ISHPES 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/ISHPES 2021 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: cesh.ishpes@fcsh.unl.pt by 31 March 2021 10 May 2021 [new deadline].

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.

>> 📎 Download the Call for Papers <<

Keynote speakers (TBC):

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

Costs

Participants must be affiliated with CESH, ISHPES or the IHC, host institution. For further details please check CESH’s or ISHPES’ homepages.

Registration deadline: 15 June 2021

Registration fee: 50 euros for all participants both in person and online. Information on the method of payment will be communicated with the e-mail of acceptance of the proposal. [NEW]

Registration fees will be fully refunded in case the congress is cancelled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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 (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

Alejandro de la Viuda Serrano (Universidad de Alcalá)
Alejandro Quiroga (Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Newcastle University)
Anaïs Bohuon (Université Paris-Sud)
Annette R. Hofmann (Ludwigsburg University of Education)
Claire Nicolas (Université de Lausanne; SciencesPo Paris)
Daphné Bolz (University of Münster)
Dario Nardini (University of Florence)
Eleonora Belloni (Università degli Studi di Siena)
Fabien Archambault (Université de Limoges)
Georgia Cervin (University of Western Australia)
Grégory Quin (Université de Lausanne)
Javier González del Castillo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Juan Antonio Simón (Universidad Europea de Madrid)
Malcolm MacLean (The University of Queensland; De Montfort University)
Martin Polley (De Montfort University)
Michael Krüger (University of Münster)
Mike Huggins (European Committee for Sports History; University of Cumbria)
Nicola Sbetti (Università di Bologna)
Patricia Vertinsky (University of British Columbia)
Patrizia Dogliani (Università di Bologna)
Philippe Vonnard (Université de Lausanne)
Pierre-Olaf Schut (Gustave Eiffel University)
Teresa González Aja (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Tomaž Pavlin (University of Ljubljana)
Victor Pereira (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour)

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

International congress to revisit and better understand a crucial period in contemporary Portuguese history, the 1820 Revolution. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it had to be postponed to 2021.

Bicentenary of the 1820 Revolution

International Congress

The Bicentenary of the 1820 Revolution presents both an opportunity and a challenge to revisit and better understand a crucial period in contemporary Portuguese history. The international congress marking this event is designed to indicate the main lines of interpretation that are to be found in the abundant historiography currently existing on this subject, as well as to encourage the presentation of new approaches and perspectives of analysis.

The 1820 Revolution was the founding event of liberalism in Portugal and Brazil. It was part of a broader movement that spread across Southern Europe and the two Latin American empires of the Atlantic region. In all cases, the epicentre consisted of political constitutions, inspired by the Spanish model of the 1812 Cadiz Constitution. The Nation, understood as a new political pillar of the constituent power of parliament, lay at the foundations of the broad concept of national sovereignty that characterised the first Portuguese Constitution of 1822. National independence was an aim that was inscribed in the goals of the 1820 revolution, as was also the case in other southern countries. The parallel outbreak of the movement for independence in the colonies of Latin America resulted in conflicts that would subsequently reveal the imperialist nature of Iberian liberalism.

The liberal movement in Southern Europe was counter-cyclical in relation to the political situation of Central and Northern Europe, namely France and England, which were now incorporated into the Holy Alliance, formed to guarantee the political stability of Europe after Napoleon. It was against this unfavourable international background that the complex process of the independence of the South American colonies first began to unfurl. The programme of this Congress seeks to reflect upon this geopolitical perspective of the revolutionary movement.

One of the characteristics of the revolutionary movement was its formal prudence. Frequently, the word “regeneration” was preferred to the term “revolution”, since it suggested moderation. The spectre of the violence of the French Revolution hung over both sides, those who wished for a change and those who defended the conservation of the status quo. The desire for moderation and the fear of unleashing conflicts were visible features of all the activity of the Cortes of 1821-22. However, the mere proclamation of the Basis of the Constitution and the rights of citizenship represented a profound shock to the existing society. The very concept of citizenship was revolutionary in itself and represented a major innovation in the relationship between the individual and the State, calling into question the corporative society of orders. A constitution defining the newly-established powers also represented a rupture with the pre-existing concept of royal power. This was how its enemies immediately understood things. Revolution and counter-revolution were the two different faces of this time, within which the thematic axes that form the structure for the programme of this Congress are also to be found intertwined.

Different generations of essayists and historians have turned their attention to the 1820 Revolution. Despite the considerable bibliography already existing about this event and its time, the commemoration of the bicentenary represents a challenge for reviewing the subject in the light of present-day historiography, as well as providing a stimulus for the presentation of new approaches and new perspectives of analysis. Accordingly, we now present the academic community with the programme for the Congress, setting out the thematic panels that seem to us to be the most relevant. In each case, the presentation of the themes is the responsibility of the coordinators who were invited to organise the respective sessions.

The oral communications approved by the Scientific Committee are available here.

Informations: cbr1820@gmail.com

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Organising Committee

Miriam Halpern Pereira (ISCTE-IUL), President
Jorge Fernandes Alves (UPorto/FL)
Ana Cristina Araújo (UCoimbra/FL)
José Luís Cardoso (ULisboa/ICS)
Zília Osório de Castro (NOVA FCSH)
Maria Alexandre Lousada (ULisboa/FL)
Luís Espinha da Silveira (NOVA FCSH)

Scientific Committee

José Viriato Capela (UMinho)
Fátima Sá e Melo Ferreira (ISCTE-IUL)
Sérgio Campos Matos (ULisboa/FL)
Maria Fátima Nunes (UÉvora)
José Miguel Sardica (UCP/FCH)
Cristina Nogueira da Silva (UNL/FD)
Maria Beatriz Nizza da Silva (USP)
Susana Serpa Silva (UAçores)
Luís Reis Torgal (UCoimbra/FL)
Isabel Vargues (UCoimbra/FL)
Telmo Verdelho (UAveiro)

Conference that aims to contribute to further reflect about and debate the different aspects that characterise the rise and political-electoral implementation of neo-fascism in the West. Call for papers: 30 April 2021

Neo-fascism and the radical right: from post-World War II to the 21st century

International Conference

Neo-fascism calls democracy into question, gives voice to racism and xenophobia, as well as denying freedoms, rights and guarantees. Its supporters question the impartiality and universality of educational, scientific and legal systems, they promote a nationalist agenda and relativise, or even restore, the fascist ideals, policies and practices that spread across Europe and the world between the two great wars. Therefore, neo-fascism is a phenomenon of unique international relevance and has already been the subject of extensive and multidisciplinary debate.
The defeat of Nazi-Fascism in World War II and the fall of the last fascist dictatorships in Europe (Portugal, Spain and Greece) in 1974-1977 shook the foundations of right-wing extremism. In the European-American political context, there was a widespread belief that anti-democratic, anti-liberal and nationalist policies were definitively laid to rest. The implosion of the socialist bloc led many to take it for grented that liberal democracy would be the uncontested model for social, political and economic organisation.
In this debate, it is of utmost importance to understand what factors contributed to creating this neo-fascism enabling environment, allowing it to influence governance and to have a very significant electoral representation in Europe and the Americas. Several studies seem to point, firstly, to the combination of the effects of neo-liberal policies and the tabloidization of the media and, more recently, to the creation of a new political culture focused on the construction and social reinforcement of prejudice. While the former called into question the duties and functions of a Welfare State, taking on openly authoritarian practices in what has come to be known as “surveillance capitalism”, the latter fuelled a growing sense of alarm and social anxiety. Both thus contributed to creating conditions conducive to the re-emergence, normalisation and mediatisation of neo-fascist discourse.

Hosted by the Transdisciplinary Culture, Space and Memory Research Centre (CITCEM) of the University of Porto’s Faculty of the Arts and Humanities, and by the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) of NOVA University Lisbon, this conference aims to contribute to further reflection and an open, cross-cutting and multidisciplinary scientific debate on the different aspects that characterise the rise and political-electoral implementation of neo-fascism in the West, from the perspectives of history, sociology, philosophy, political science, communication sciences, law, and cultural and literary studies..

Everyone is thus invited to submit papers on the following topics:

– “Neo-fascism”, “far-right”, “national populism” and “radical right”: what these concepts mean and their importance;
– Fascism and neo-fascism in post-war history: values, experiences, organisations and power;
– Structures of the past: historiography of radical rights, saudosismo movement, historical revisionism and laundering of fascist regimes;
– The media, tabloidization, social media, fake news, surveillance capitalism;
– Neofascism and its relation with culture, education, art, literature and science;
– Religion and individual freedoms: homophobia, anti-feminism, racism
– National populism: historical continuity(ies), identitarian discourse, racism, xenophobia, “criminalisation” of migrants and neo-colonialism.

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

Organising Committee:

Amélia Polónia (CITCEM/UP)
Bruno Madeira (CITCEM/UP)
Carla Ribeiro (CITCEM/UP)
Gaspar Martins Pereira (CITCEM/UP)
Manuel Loff (IHC — NOVA FCSH e FLUP)
Maria da Conceição Meireles Pereira (CITCEM/UP)
Steven Forti (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Virgílio Borges Pereira (IS/FLUP)

Scientific Board:

António Costa Pinto (ICS/ISCTE)
Fátima Ferreira (ICS/UM)
Fernando Rosas (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
José Neves (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Maria Inácia Rezola (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (CES/UC)
Pedro Bacelar de Vasconcelos (DHCII/UM)
Rui Bebiano (CES/UC)
Vital Moreira (CEDIPRE/UC)

Secretariat:

Diana Felícia and Inês Rebanda (CITCEM/FLUP)

Deadlines for registration and submission of papers:

Submission of papers: 30 April 2021
Assessment of papers by reviewers: 31 May 2021
Response to authors: 30 June 2021
Final registration: 31 July 2021
22 and 23 October 2021 (Conference)

Registration fees*:

CITCEM and IHC members and participants who submitted papers – must register by 1 September; free
Other participants who did not submit papers: by 31 July 2020 – €30, between 1 August and 1 October 2021 – €60
Students: between 31 July and 1 October 2021 – €20
Free attendance (no access to documentation or coffee breaks)

* Includes documentation and coffee breaks

Attendance certificates will not be issued to those who are not present at the conference.
Online attendance and participation is possible.

Languages:

Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French

Contacts:

Tel: 226077177 | e-mail: citcem@letras.up.pt

Colloquium that marks the 100-year anniversary of the Portuguese Communist Party, gathering researchers with a diverse set of views and backgrounds. CFP: 15 July 2021

One hundred years of the Portuguese Communist Party

To mark the 100-year anniversary of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) the Institute of Contemporary at NOVA FCSH, will hold an International Colloquium, which aims to bring together a diverse set of views from researchers, regarding the oldest functioning party in the country.

PCP’s history spans several distinct historic periods, being irrevocably connected to Portugal’s history in the last one hundred years. Throughout the decades, it witnessed a military dictatorship, Estado Novo (a fascist regime), the 25th of April revolution and the revolutionary period that ensued, the genesis of the 1976 constitution and its disputed revisions, and finally the period between Portugal’s integration in the European Union and the present day. Through all of this, the party had ups and downs. Its evolution echoes a vast portion of the twentieth century as well as the complexities and challenges of our time.

Having been pivotal in the resistance to a dictatorship and in the establishment of a democracy, the party is controversial as a “living being” but of vast importance to History and interest to Human and Social Sciences in general. This is our viewpoint on this matter.

The fields of History and Political Science have been the main sources of studies on communism in Portugal, though other approaches have been rehearsed in larger or smaller scales. All standpoints on the subject have its merits and interest, from Sociology to Psychology, from Anthropology to Linguistics. In that sense, we call for all scientific contributions aiming at a plural and multidisciplinary dialog.

Call for papers

Proposals should be sent to the following address: coloquio.100anospcp@gmail.com and must be submitted until the 15th of July 2021 with the following elements:

– Title
– Abstract up to 3000 characters (including spaces)
– Brief biographical note of the author up to 1500 characters (including spaces)

The results will be communicated until the 31st of July 2021.

>> 📎 Download the PDF (PT/EN/ES) <<

Scientific Committee

Fernando Rosas (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
João Arsénio Nunes, (CEI-IUL)
João Madeira (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
José Manuel Lopes Cordeiro (ICS-UM)
José Neves (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Manuel Loff (IHC — NOVA FCSH; FLUP)
Paula Godinho (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Silvestre Lacerda (ANTT-DGLAB)

Organising Committee

Adelino Cunha (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Ana Sofia Ferreira (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
André Pina (ISUP — FLUP)
Carlos Beirão de Oliveira (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Cristina Nogueira (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
João Madeira (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Vanessa de Almeida (IHC — NOVA FCSH)

Congress of the European Committee for Sports History and the International Society for the History of Physical Education and Sport that aims to explore the historical configurations of the sports field and its relationship with a broad range of political processes. Call open until 31 March 2021 10 May 2021.

Sport and Politics from Antiquity to the Modern Day

Joint 2021 CESH / ISHPES Congress

The congress will be held in a mixed mode (online and in-person), to allow participation by all those who are unable to travel to Lisbon, given the mobility restrictions imposed by the pandemic crisis.

The 24th edition of CESH has been postponed and will be held from 14 to 16 September 2021 in Lisbon, Portugal, held jointly with the ISHPES congress. The theme of the CESH/ISHPES 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 2021 CESH/ISHPES 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/ISHPES 2021 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: cesh.ishpes@fcsh.unl.pt by 31 March 2021 10 May 2021 [new deadline].

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.

>> 📎 Download the Call for Papers <<

Keynote speakers (TBC):

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

Costs

Participants must be affiliated with CESH, ISHPES or the IHC, host institution. For further details please check CESH’s or ISHPES’ homepages.

Registration deadline: 15 June 2021

Registration fee: 50 euros for all participants both in person and online. Information on the method of payment will be communicated with the e-mail of acceptance of the proposal. [NEW]

Registration fees will be fully refunded in case the congress is cancelled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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 (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

Alejandro de la Viuda Serrano (Universidad de Alcalá)
Alejandro Quiroga (Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Newcastle University)
Anaïs Bohuon (Université Paris-Sud)
Annette R. Hofmann (Ludwigsburg University of Education)
Claire Nicolas (Université de Lausanne; SciencesPo Paris)
Daphné Bolz (University of Münster)
Dario Nardini (University of Florence)
Eleonora Belloni (Università degli Studi di Siena)
Fabien Archambault (Université de Limoges)
Georgia Cervin (University of Western Australia)
Grégory Quin (Université de Lausanne)
Javier González del Castillo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Juan Antonio Simón (Universidad Europea de Madrid)
Malcolm MacLean (The University of Queensland; De Montfort University)
Martin Polley (De Montfort University)
Michael Krüger (University of Münster)
Mike Huggins (European Committee for Sports History; University of Cumbria)
Nicola Sbetti (Università di Bologna)
Patricia Vertinsky (University of British Columbia)
Patrizia Dogliani (Università di Bologna)
Philippe Vonnard (Université de Lausanne)
Pierre-Olaf Schut (Gustave Eiffel University)
Teresa González Aja (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Tomaž Pavlin (University of Ljubljana)
Victor Pereira (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour)

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

Conference that aims to contribute to further reflect about and debate the different aspects that characterise the rise and political-electoral implementation of neo-fascism in the West. Call for papers: 30 April 2021

Neo-fascism and the radical right: from post-World War II to the 21st century

International Conference

Neo-fascism calls democracy into question, gives voice to racism and xenophobia, as well as denying freedoms, rights and guarantees. Its supporters question the impartiality and universality of educational, scientific and legal systems, they promote a nationalist agenda and relativise, or even restore, the fascist ideals, policies and practices that spread across Europe and the world between the two great wars. Therefore, neo-fascism is a phenomenon of unique international relevance and has already been the subject of extensive and multidisciplinary debate.
The defeat of Nazi-Fascism in World War II and the fall of the last fascist dictatorships in Europe (Portugal, Spain and Greece) in 1974-1977 shook the foundations of right-wing extremism. In the European-American political context, there was a widespread belief that anti-democratic, anti-liberal and nationalist policies were definitively laid to rest. The implosion of the socialist bloc led many to take it for grented that liberal democracy would be the uncontested model for social, political and economic organisation.
In this debate, it is of utmost importance to understand what factors contributed to creating this neo-fascism enabling environment, allowing it to influence governance and to have a very significant electoral representation in Europe and the Americas. Several studies seem to point, firstly, to the combination of the effects of neo-liberal policies and the tabloidization of the media and, more recently, to the creation of a new political culture focused on the construction and social reinforcement of prejudice. While the former called into question the duties and functions of a Welfare State, taking on openly authoritarian practices in what has come to be known as “surveillance capitalism”, the latter fuelled a growing sense of alarm and social anxiety. Both thus contributed to creating conditions conducive to the re-emergence, normalisation and mediatisation of neo-fascist discourse.

Hosted by the Transdisciplinary Culture, Space and Memory Research Centre (CITCEM) of the University of Porto’s Faculty of the Arts and Humanities, and by the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) of NOVA University Lisbon, this conference aims to contribute to further reflection and an open, cross-cutting and multidisciplinary scientific debate on the different aspects that characterise the rise and political-electoral implementation of neo-fascism in the West, from the perspectives of history, sociology, philosophy, political science, communication sciences, law, and cultural and literary studies..

Everyone is thus invited to submit papers on the following topics:

– “Neo-fascism”, “far-right”, “national populism” and “radical right”: what these concepts mean and their importance;
– Fascism and neo-fascism in post-war history: values, experiences, organisations and power;
– Structures of the past: historiography of radical rights, saudosismo movement, historical revisionism and laundering of fascist regimes;
– The media, tabloidization, social media, fake news, surveillance capitalism;
– Neofascism and its relation with culture, education, art, literature and science;
– Religion and individual freedoms: homophobia, anti-feminism, racism
– National populism: historical continuity(ies), identitarian discourse, racism, xenophobia, “criminalisation” of migrants and neo-colonialism.

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Organising Committee:

Amélia Polónia (CITCEM/UP)
Bruno Madeira (CITCEM/UP)
Carla Ribeiro (CITCEM/UP)
Gaspar Martins Pereira (CITCEM/UP)
Manuel Loff (IHC — NOVA FCSH e FLUP)
Maria da Conceição Meireles Pereira (CITCEM/UP)
Steven Forti (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Virgílio Borges Pereira (IS/FLUP)

Scientific Board:

António Costa Pinto (ICS/ISCTE)
Fátima Ferreira (ICS/UM)
Fernando Rosas (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
José Neves (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Maria Inácia Rezola (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (CES/UC)
Pedro Bacelar de Vasconcelos (DHCII/UM)
Rui Bebiano (CES/UC)
Vital Moreira (CEDIPRE/UC)

Secretariat:

Diana Felícia and Inês Rebanda (CITCEM/FLUP)

Deadlines for registration and submission of papers:

Submission of papers: 30 April 2021
Assessment of papers by reviewers: 31 May 2021
Response to authors: 30 June 2021
Final registration: 31 July 2021
22 and 23 October 2021 (Conference)

Registration fees*:

CITCEM and IHC members and participants who submitted papers – must register by 1 September; free
Other participants who did not submit papers: by 31 July 2020 – €30, between 1 August and 1 October 2021 – €60
Students: between 31 July and 1 October 2021 – €20
Free attendance (no access to documentation or coffee breaks)

* Includes documentation and coffee breaks

Attendance certificates will not be issued to those who are not present at the conference.
Online attendance and participation is possible.

Languages:

Portuguese, Spanish, English, and French

Contacts:

Tel: 226077177 | e-mail: citcem@letras.up.pt

Colloquium that marks the 100-year anniversary of the Portuguese Communist Party, gathering researchers with a diverse set of views and backgrounds. CFP: 15 July 2021

One hundred years of the Portuguese Communist Party

To mark the 100-year anniversary of the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) the Institute of Contemporary at NOVA FCSH, will hold an International Colloquium, which aims to bring together a diverse set of views from researchers, regarding the oldest functioning party in the country.

PCP’s history spans several distinct historic periods, being irrevocably connected to Portugal’s history in the last one hundred years. Throughout the decades, it witnessed a military dictatorship, Estado Novo (a fascist regime), the 25th of April revolution and the revolutionary period that ensued, the genesis of the 1976 constitution and its disputed revisions, and finally the period between Portugal’s integration in the European Union and the present day. Through all of this, the party had ups and downs. Its evolution echoes a vast portion of the twentieth century as well as the complexities and challenges of our time.

Having been pivotal in the resistance to a dictatorship and in the establishment of a democracy, the party is controversial as a “living being” but of vast importance to History and interest to Human and Social Sciences in general. This is our viewpoint on this matter.

The fields of History and Political Science have been the main sources of studies on communism in Portugal, though other approaches have been rehearsed in larger or smaller scales. All standpoints on the subject have its merits and interest, from Sociology to Psychology, from Anthropology to Linguistics. In that sense, we call for all scientific contributions aiming at a plural and multidisciplinary dialog.

Call for papers

Proposals should be sent to the following address: coloquio.100anospcp@gmail.com and must be submitted until the 15th of July 2021 with the following elements:

– Title
– Abstract up to 3000 characters (including spaces)
– Brief biographical note of the author up to 1500 characters (including spaces)

The results will be communicated until the 31st of July 2021.

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Scientific Committee

Fernando Rosas (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
João Arsénio Nunes, (CEI-IUL)
João Madeira (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
José Manuel Lopes Cordeiro (ICS-UM)
José Neves (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Manuel Loff (IHC — NOVA FCSH; FLUP)
Paula Godinho (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Silvestre Lacerda (ANTT-DGLAB)

Organising Committee

Adelino Cunha (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Ana Sofia Ferreira (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
André Pina (ISUP — FLUP)
Carlos Beirão de Oliveira (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Cristina Nogueira (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
João Madeira (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Vanessa de Almeida (IHC — NOVA FCSH)