Launch of a special issue of the journal Práticas da História, marking the 20th anniversary of Provincializing Europe, by Dipesh Chakrabarty.

Dipesh Chakrabarty

In conversation with the editors and authors of Práticas da História

Twenty years after the publication of Provincializing Europe, the journal Práticas da História – Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past, has produced a special issue dedicated to Dipesh Chakrabarty’s groundbreaking book. The issue is composed of ten articles and essays by researchers from various disciplinary and geographical backgrounds, and an unpublished interview with Dipesh Chakrabarty.

The launch of this special issue will take place on 1 March 2021, at 17h00 (Lisbon Time), on the IHC’s YouTube channel, with the participation of Dipesh Chakrabarty, followed by a discussion with the editors, Marcos Cardão (CEC — University of Lisbon) and José Neves (IHC — NOVA FCSH), and other authors of the issue.

Dipesh Chakrabarty is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College at the Department of English of the University of Chicago. His research fields are modern South Asian history and historiography; subaltern, indigenous, and minority histories; theory and history; decolonization; environmental history and climate change.

Online course about the history of Portugal, organised by the IHC, the newspaper Público, and the publishing house Tinta da China, with the scientific coordination of Rui Tavares.

Portugal, uma Retrospectiva #20: 1290, O Nascimento da Universidade de Lisboa-Coimbra

Vigésima aula do curso, dedicada ao ano de 1290, que será conduzida por Giulia Rossi Vairo e Mário Farelo (IEM — NOVA FCSH).

Na segunda das nossas polifonias medievais, um colectivo de historiadores dedica-se a um ano de consolidação na história da Primeira Dinastia: Mário Farelo traçou-nos um quadro da vida na cidade de Lisboa, em particular na sua relação com a Universidade que viria a ser de Lisboa, primeiro, e de Coimbra, depois; Joana Ramôa Melo apresentou-nos à invulgar figura política da rainha Dona Beatriz; e finalmente, Giulia Rossi Vairo estudou a posteridade de Dom Dinis e da “Rainha Santa” Dona Isabel a partir da tentativa de estabelecimento de um Panteão Real em Odivelas.

Sobre o curso:

O curso é constituído por 25 aulas, de periodicidade semanal e via a plataforma Zoom, que têm como base cada um dos volumes da colecção homónima (Portugal, uma Retrospectiva) publicada pelo Público e a Tinta da China em 2019.

As aulas serão leccionadas pelos respectivos autores, nacionais e estrangeiros, incluindo diversos investigadores/as do IHC.

Cada aula online terá a seguinte estrutura:

– uma breve apresentação dos autores/as e de cada volume, por Rui Tavares;
– uma palestra sobre cada um dos anos-tema, pelos autores/as do volume;
– um período de debate, a partir de perguntas dos participantes, que terão lido os volumes previamente.

As histórias de Portugal têm sido todas contadas da mesma maneira: de trás para a frente, a partir de uma ideia de nacionalidade que se supõe mais ou menos fixa desde o século XII, e com o esforço e a imaginação do historiador completando as lacunas. Portugal: Uma Retrospectiva vira estes pressupostos às avessas. Em vez de tentar encontrar um início para a história, começamos a partir de onde estamos — no presente — e vamos procurar o que sabemos e ignoramos de nós num passado cada vez mais distante. Em cada sessão deste curso dedicamo-nos a um ano da história que hoje é de Portugal, encontrando a cada passo uma maneira diferente de olhar para essa história, os seus problemas diferentes e gentes diferentes. Em cada momento da história tentaremos refazer as nossas perguntas e as nossas respostas, a partir de fontes que conhecemos e do muito que sempre ignoramos.

Este curso destina-se a todos/as os interessados em História de Portugal, que procurem uma nova abordagem para adquirir conhecimento sobre o presente e o passado de Portugal seguindo uma ordem inversa dos acontecimentos.

Colaboram também o IFILNOVA e Departamento de História da Universidade de São Paulo.

O IHC emitirá um certificado de participação no final do curso.

Seminar cycle for the PhD students of the research group “Culture, Identities, and Power” where work in progress is debated in a critical and constructive manner.

Seminário de Doutorandos do Grupo de Investigação “Cultura, Identidades e Poder” do IHC

Ciclo 2020/2021

Coordenação: Joana Matias, José Neves, Rita Luís e Rita Narra Lucas.

O seminário reúne quinzenalmente às terças-feiras entre as 11h00 e as 13h00.

Em cada sessão serão discutidas duas investigações de doutoramento em curso de realização. Previamente à sessão será fornecido um texto de autoria do doutorando/a. O texto poderá ser (i) a proposta de investigação submetida à FCT ou ao IHC para obtenção de bolsa, (ii) o trabalho de final de curso apresentado no final da parte lectiva do doutoramento, (iii) um capítulo da futura tese ou ainda (iv) a introdução ou conclusão da mesma. A leitura prévia do texto é condição de participação na respectiva sessão. A sessão inicia-se com uma apresentação de 10 minutos, a cargo do doutorando/a, abrindo-se então caminho a um período de discussão crítica e construtiva entre todos.

Para mais informações: culturaidentidadespoder@gmail.com

Sessão #1, 17 de Novembro de 2020

Pedro Silva Rei, Os católicos e o referencial socialista em Portugal (1968-1986)
Gil Gonçalves, Populismo, Carisma e Acção Colectiva – uma análise à liderança política no Portugal do século XX

Sessão #2, 15 de Dezembro de 2020

Alexandra Forra, Formas e limites de pertença à nação nas representações político-partidárias em Portugal
João Mineiro, Política e Distinção: uma etnografia da Assembleia da República

Sessão #3, 5 de Janeiro de 2021

Raquel Afonso, Homossexualidade, lesbianismo e resistência nas ditaduras ibéricas do século XX: estudos de caso em comparação
António João Rocha e Silva, A criminalização das práticas homossexuais ao tempo do Estado Novo: poderes, saberes e experiência

Sessão #4, 19 de Janeiro de 2021

Diogo Duarte, Estado e Anarquismo em Portugal, 1890-1933
Tiago Rego Ramalho, Ideias Políticas em Tempos de Mudanças. História de “Raiz e Utopia” (1977-1981)

Sessão #5, 2 de Fevereiro de 2021

Rita Narra Lucas, A criação do “Terceiro Mundo”: um estudo a partir do fim do Império Colonial Português
Leonor Pires Martins, Amílcar Cabral – uma biografia das biografias

Sessão #6, 23 de Fevereiro de 2021

Lais Pereira, Povo e Fotografia em Portugal, 1890-1950
Marta Silva, Emigração Clandestina e Mundo Rural, 1954-1974

Sessão #7, 9 de Março de 2021

Mariana Rei, Das capitais do têxtil às capitais da cultura: classes, património e (i)mobilidades no contexto Guimarães-Lille
João Pedro Santos, Trabalho, Industrialização e Desindustrialização na Região de Setúbal – Para uma História Cultural da Economia

Sessão #8, 23 de Março de 2021

Joana Matias, Arquivo reparativo: publicações independentes e a historiografia queer portuguesa
Sofia Victorino, Decolonising contemporary art institutions: the role of socially engaged practices and global networks of solidarity

Sessão #9, 6 de Abril de 2021

Henrique Oliveira, A Ponte sobre o Tejo e a Construção do Portugal Moderno
Wynton Guess, A History of Trap, Youth Culture and the 2008 crisis

Crédito da imagem: Delila Ziebart on Unsplash

Seminar cycle for the PhD students of the research group “Culture, Identities, and Power” where work in progress is debated in a critical and constructive manner.

Seminário de Doutorandos do Grupo de Investigação “Cultura, Identidades e Poder” do IHC

Ciclo 2020/2021

Coordenação: Joana Matias, José Neves, Rita Luís e Rita Narra Lucas.

O seminário reúne quinzenalmente às terças-feiras entre as 11h00 e as 13h00.

Em cada sessão serão discutidas duas investigações de doutoramento em curso de realização. Previamente à sessão será fornecido um texto de autoria do doutorando/a. O texto poderá ser (i) a proposta de investigação submetida à FCT ou ao IHC para obtenção de bolsa, (ii) o trabalho de final de curso apresentado no final da parte lectiva do doutoramento, (iii) um capítulo da futura tese ou ainda (iv) a introdução ou conclusão da mesma. A leitura prévia do texto é condição de participação na respectiva sessão. A sessão inicia-se com uma apresentação de 10 minutos, a cargo do doutorando/a, abrindo-se então caminho a um período de discussão crítica e construtiva entre todos.

Para mais informações: culturaidentidadespoder@gmail.com

Sessão #1, 17 de Novembro de 2020

Pedro Silva Rei, Os católicos e o referencial socialista em Portugal (1968-1986)
Gil Gonçalves, Populismo, Carisma e Acção Colectiva – uma análise à liderança política no Portugal do século XX

Sessão #2, 15 de Dezembro de 2020

Alexandra Forra, Formas e limites de pertença à nação nas representações político-partidárias em Portugal
João Mineiro, Política e Distinção: uma etnografia da Assembleia da República

Sessão #3, 5 de Janeiro de 2021

Raquel Afonso, Homossexualidade, lesbianismo e resistência nas ditaduras ibéricas do século XX: estudos de caso em comparação
António João Rocha e Silva, A criminalização das práticas homossexuais ao tempo do Estado Novo: poderes, saberes e experiência

Sessão #4, 19 de Janeiro de 2021

Diogo Duarte, Estado e Anarquismo em Portugal, 1890-1933
Tiago Rego Ramalho, Ideias Políticas em Tempos de Mudanças. História de “Raiz e Utopia” (1977-1981)

Sessão #5, 2 de Fevereiro de 2021

Rita Narra Lucas, A criação do “Terceiro Mundo”: um estudo a partir do fim do Império Colonial Português
Leonor Pires Martins, Amílcar Cabral – uma biografia das biografias

Sessão #6, 23 de Fevereiro de 2021

Lais Pereira, Povo e Fotografia em Portugal, 1890-1950
Marta Silva, Emigração Clandestina e Mundo Rural, 1954-1974

Sessão #7, 9 de Março de 2021

Mariana Rei, Das capitais do têxtil às capitais da cultura: classes, património e (i)mobilidades no contexto Guimarães-Lille
João Pedro Santos, Trabalho, Industrialização e Desindustrialização na Região de Setúbal – Para uma História Cultural da Economia

Sessão #8, 23 de Março de 2021

Joana Matias, Arquivo reparativo: publicações independentes e a historiografia queer portuguesa
Sofia Victorino, Decolonising contemporary art institutions: the role of socially engaged practices and global networks of solidarity

Sessão #9, 6 de Abril de 2021

Henrique Oliveira, A Ponte sobre o Tejo e a Construção do Portugal Moderno
Wynton Guess, A History of Trap, Youth Culture and the 2008 crisis

Crédito da imagem: Delila Ziebart on Unsplash

Seventh 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 Pedro Martins.

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, sala a designar

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.

Seminar of the research group in Global History of Labour and Social Conflicts. For IHC researchers only.

“A historiografia sobre o anarquismo português”

Isaac Martín Nieto (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)

Este seminário pretende oferecer um percurso pela evolução da historiografia devotada ao anarquismo português desde os estudos dos próprios militantes do movimento até as análises dos historiadores académicos, pondo ênfase nas diferentes perspectivas usadas, nos distintos temas abordados e nas diversas fontes de informação utilizadas.

Sobre o orador:
Isaac Martín Nieto é doutor em História pela Universidad de Salamanca e investigador pós-doutoral na Universidad de Santiago de Compostela. Tem focado as suas investigações no anarquismo espanhol, na história agrária, na violência política e na guerra civil espanhola, assuntos sobre os que tem publicado vários livros, artigos e capítulos de livro e sobre os que tem proferido conferências em congressos tanto nacionais como internacionais.

Inscrições: raquel_cardeira_varela@yahoo.co.uk

Imagem: (1927), “União Anarquista Portuguesa”, nº 1, Abril de 1927, Fundação Mário Soares / Alberto Pedroso (Fonte: Casa Comum)

Seminar cycle for the PhD students of the research group “Culture, Identities, and Power” where work in progress is debated in a critical and constructive manner.

Seminário de Doutorandos do Grupo de Investigação “Cultura, Identidades e Poder” do IHC

Ciclo 2020/2021

Coordenação: Joana Matias, José Neves, Rita Luís e Rita Narra Lucas.

O seminário reúne quinzenalmente às terças-feiras entre as 11h00 e as 13h00.

Em cada sessão serão discutidas duas investigações de doutoramento em curso de realização. Previamente à sessão será fornecido um texto de autoria do doutorando/a. O texto poderá ser (i) a proposta de investigação submetida à FCT ou ao IHC para obtenção de bolsa, (ii) o trabalho de final de curso apresentado no final da parte lectiva do doutoramento, (iii) um capítulo da futura tese ou ainda (iv) a introdução ou conclusão da mesma. A leitura prévia do texto é condição de participação na respectiva sessão. A sessão inicia-se com uma apresentação de 10 minutos, a cargo do doutorando/a, abrindo-se então caminho a um período de discussão crítica e construtiva entre todos.

Para mais informações: culturaidentidadespoder@gmail.com

Sessão #1, 17 de Novembro de 2020

Pedro Silva Rei, Os católicos e o referencial socialista em Portugal (1968-1986)
Gil Gonçalves, Populismo, Carisma e Acção Colectiva – uma análise à liderança política no Portugal do século XX

Sessão #2, 15 de Dezembro de 2020

Alexandra Forra, Formas e limites de pertença à nação nas representações político-partidárias em Portugal
João Mineiro, Política e Distinção: uma etnografia da Assembleia da República

Sessão #3, 5 de Janeiro de 2021

Raquel Afonso, Homossexualidade, lesbianismo e resistência nas ditaduras ibéricas do século XX: estudos de caso em comparação
António João Rocha e Silva, A criminalização das práticas homossexuais ao tempo do Estado Novo: poderes, saberes e experiência

Sessão #4, 19 de Janeiro de 2021

Diogo Duarte, Estado e Anarquismo em Portugal, 1890-1933
Tiago Rego Ramalho, Ideias Políticas em Tempos de Mudanças. História de “Raiz e Utopia” (1977-1981)

Sessão #5, 2 de Fevereiro de 2021

Rita Narra Lucas, A criação do “Terceiro Mundo”: um estudo a partir do fim do Império Colonial Português
Leonor Pires Martins, Amílcar Cabral – uma biografia das biografias

Sessão #6, 23 de Fevereiro de 2021

Lais Pereira, Povo e Fotografia em Portugal, 1890-1950
Marta Silva, Emigração Clandestina e Mundo Rural, 1954-1974

Sessão #7, 9 de Março de 2021

Mariana Rei, Das capitais do têxtil às capitais da cultura: classes, património e (i)mobilidades no contexto Guimarães-Lille
João Pedro Santos, Trabalho, Industrialização e Desindustrialização na Região de Setúbal – Para uma História Cultural da Economia

Sessão #8, 23 de Março de 2021

Joana Matias, Arquivo reparativo: publicações independentes e a historiografia queer portuguesa
Sofia Victorino, Decolonising contemporary art institutions: the role of socially engaged practices and global networks of solidarity

Sessão #9, 6 de Abril de 2021

Henrique Oliveira, A Ponte sobre o Tejo e a Construção do Portugal Moderno
Wynton Guess, A History of Trap, Youth Culture and the 2008 crisis

Crédito da imagem: Delila Ziebart on Unsplash

Eighth 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 Xurxo Ayán Vila.

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, sala a designar

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.

Colloquium that aims to evaluate how and to what degree societies and authorities managed or failed to promote health in small cities. Call for papers: 10 March 2021

Small Cities and Health (from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era):

healthcare, sanitary institutions and urban hygiene policies

If the present indelibly influences the historiography produced in each period, the current health crisis further conditions – regarding the choice of the theme and the circumstances of its realization – the next meeting of the Small Cities in Time Network, to take place in the spring 2021.
Thus, all interested researchers are invited to participate in the colloquium “Small Cities and Health (from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era): healthcare, sanitary institutions and urban hygiene policies” to be held on 6, 7, and 8 May 2021 , according to the evolution of the pandemic, in face-to-face format, in Castelo de Vide (Portugal), semi-face-to-face or exclusively virtual.

The goal of this Meeting will be to evaluate how and to what degree societies and authorities (both central and local), managed or failed to promote, in small cities: (i) the concern for collective health, through the recruitment of medical personnel; (ii) the foundation or continued investment in hospital establishments and assistance institutions; (iii) hygiene or protection regulations against epidemics.

It is true that there are countless general and monographic works, developed both within the scope of the history of medicine, of hospital and healthcare institutions or about health policies, as well as within the framework of the history of cities; however, the majority refer to large urban centres, whose sanitary infrastructure is visible and / or the archives have well known and examined for a long time.

It is therefore convenient, according to the aims of the Network, to start gathering and organizing numerous information on this topic, relating to small urban units, often dispersed in student work or in local and regional publications, and to try to answer the question: is there, in this matter as in others, a specify response from small towns?

It is possible that the health problems of small urban centres may have been translated both in the constitution of networks (at least in information, in the case of epidemics) and phenomena of imitation of municipal guidelines, as well as in the establishment of relations with larger nearby cities (for example, those with educational institutions in the health field).

The end of the Middle Ages and the early Modernity introduced the implementation of health strategies in small cities within the framework of the general policies of the States under construction. In more recent periods, in addition to health and hygiene starting to mobilize governments, the legislature, the press, public opinion, later associations and, sometimes, the courts, there are profound developments such as: (i ) the first vaccination campaigns, (ii) the increasing secularization of the health system, (iii) the professionalization of surgery and the presence of health workers in the smallest towns and rural areas; (iv) the growing weight of research, the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare equipment.

Call for communications:

The range of issues raised in this Meeting can include monographic, regional or comparative papers, aimed at analyzing sources and / or scientific production already available or, also, in innovative investigations, possibly in the form of works in progress.

Session, papers and poster proposals will be accepted under the following thematic panels:

1 – Hygiene and public health policies in small towns: the action of local governments and central administration.
2 – Urban networks in epidemic contexts: propagation factors and combat strategies
3 – Health and assistance structures in small cities: urban planning, material record, institutions, and agents.
4 – The memory of times of epidemic in small cities: literary and identity revisits.

For more information, please contact: smallcities.network@gmail.com

Deadline: 10 March 2021

Organising Committee 2021:

Adelaide Millán da Costa (UAb; IEM — NOVA FCSH)
Adelino Cardoso (CHAM — NOVA FCSH)
Helena da Silva (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Fabián Cuesta-Gómez (IEM — NOVA FCSH)
Patrícia Martins (CMCV)
Sara Prata (IEM — NOVA FCSH)

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, sala a designar

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)

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, sala a designar

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.

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.

Sport and Politics from Antiquity to the Modern Day

Joint 2021 CESH / ISHPES Congress

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.

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: 99 euros. The registration fee includes two lunches and one dinner. Payment method information will be communicated after registration.

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)

Colloquium that aims to evaluate how and to what degree societies and authorities managed or failed to promote health in small cities. Call for papers: 10 March 2021

Small Cities and Health (from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era):

healthcare, sanitary institutions and urban hygiene policies

If the present indelibly influences the historiography produced in each period, the current health crisis further conditions – regarding the choice of the theme and the circumstances of its realization – the next meeting of the Small Cities in Time Network, to take place in the spring 2021.
Thus, all interested researchers are invited to participate in the colloquium “Small Cities and Health (from the Middle Ages to the Contemporary Era): healthcare, sanitary institutions and urban hygiene policies” to be held on 6, 7, and 8 May 2021 , according to the evolution of the pandemic, in face-to-face format, in Castelo de Vide (Portugal), semi-face-to-face or exclusively virtual.

The goal of this Meeting will be to evaluate how and to what degree societies and authorities (both central and local), managed or failed to promote, in small cities: (i) the concern for collective health, through the recruitment of medical personnel; (ii) the foundation or continued investment in hospital establishments and assistance institutions; (iii) hygiene or protection regulations against epidemics.

It is true that there are countless general and monographic works, developed both within the scope of the history of medicine, of hospital and healthcare institutions or about health policies, as well as within the framework of the history of cities; however, the majority refer to large urban centres, whose sanitary infrastructure is visible and / or the archives have well known and examined for a long time.

It is therefore convenient, according to the aims of the Network, to start gathering and organizing numerous information on this topic, relating to small urban units, often dispersed in student work or in local and regional publications, and to try to answer the question: is there, in this matter as in others, a specify response from small towns?

It is possible that the health problems of small urban centres may have been translated both in the constitution of networks (at least in information, in the case of epidemics) and phenomena of imitation of municipal guidelines, as well as in the establishment of relations with larger nearby cities (for example, those with educational institutions in the health field).

The end of the Middle Ages and the early Modernity introduced the implementation of health strategies in small cities within the framework of the general policies of the States under construction. In more recent periods, in addition to health and hygiene starting to mobilize governments, the legislature, the press, public opinion, later associations and, sometimes, the courts, there are profound developments such as: (i ) the first vaccination campaigns, (ii) the increasing secularization of the health system, (iii) the professionalization of surgery and the presence of health workers in the smallest towns and rural areas; (iv) the growing weight of research, the pharmaceutical industry and healthcare equipment.

Call for communications:

The range of issues raised in this Meeting can include monographic, regional or comparative papers, aimed at analyzing sources and / or scientific production already available or, also, in innovative investigations, possibly in the form of works in progress.

Session, papers and poster proposals will be accepted under the following thematic panels:

1 – Hygiene and public health policies in small towns: the action of local governments and central administration.
2 – Urban networks in epidemic contexts: propagation factors and combat strategies
3 – Health and assistance structures in small cities: urban planning, material record, institutions, and agents.
4 – The memory of times of epidemic in small cities: literary and identity revisits.

For more information, please contact: smallcities.network@gmail.com

Deadline: 10 March 2021

Organising Committee 2021:

Adelaide Millán da Costa (UAb; IEM — NOVA FCSH)
Adelino Cardoso (CHAM — NOVA FCSH)
Helena da Silva (IHC — NOVA FCSH)
Fabián Cuesta-Gómez (IEM — NOVA FCSH)
Patrícia Martins (CMCV)
Sara Prata (IEM — 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.

Sport and Politics from Antiquity to the Modern Day

Joint 2021 CESH / ISHPES Congress

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.

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.

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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: 99 euros. The registration fee includes two lunches and one dinner. Payment method information will be communicated after registration.

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)