Matt Cook is the IHC Visiting Scholar for 2025–2026
In 2026, we resume our Visiting Scholars programme in January with a visit from Matt Cook, a distinguished social and cultural historian from the University of Oxford. In previous years, the IHC has hosted academics specialising in areas such as international politics...
IHC dedicates film cycle to Frantz Fanon
Celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, which we had already marked with the conversation ‘Sair da Grande Noite’ (Leaving the Long Night) in July last year, the IHC now proposes a film cycle focusing on the relationship between his work and this art...
TRANSMAT publication discusses the legacies and responsibilities of Portuguese museums
The TRANSMAT project team has published a special supplement to the journal História, Ciências, Saúde — Manguinhos, edited by Elisabete Pereira, Catarina Simões and Quintino Lopes, on the theme ‘Colonial and post-colonial collections in Portugal: reconstructing...