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IHC renews its governing bodies and coordination teams

Sep 15, 2026 | Highlights, News

The new members of the IHC’s Governing Bodies and the Coordinators of its Research Groups were elected yesterday at the General Assembly. Rui Lopes, a Research Assistant at FCSH, was elected President of the Board, having served on the previous board as...

PHONLAB gives rise to a permanent exhibition at the University of Coimbra

Sep 10, 2026 | Highlights, News

The PHONLAB project, coordinated by Quintino Lopes, is nearing completion and is set to achieve one of its major objectives: the opening of the Armando de Lacerda Wing: Laboratory of Experimental Phonetics of Coimbra, which has transformed the former premises of the...

Lisbon is hosting the 8th International Conference on Public History

Aug 31, 2026 | News

The IHC is one of the hosting institutions of the 8th International Conference on Public History, organised by the International Federation for Public History (IFPH), which will take place for the first time in Lisbon, under the theme ‘The Public History of Difficult...

Fifth edition of the Amílcar Cabral Prize

Jul 27, 2026 | Highlights, News

In partnership with the Monument to the Discoveries / Lisboa Cultura, the IHC has launched the call for entries for the fifth edition of the Amílcar Cabral Prize, which aims to “to honour an article of historical research that deals with any topic or issue relating to...

Marta Pinto Machado in a double bill in Lisbon: MNAC and CCCV

May 14, 2026 | News

Having opened the exhibition Ceci n’est Pas Francisco at the National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC) in April, Marta Pinto Machado is now extending it to the Cape Verde Cultural Centre (CCCV), where it will open on 22 May. The exhibition stems from the...

VINCULUM is still going in Madeira

May 12, 2026 | News

Although formally concluded, the echoes of VINCULUM can still be heard on the island of Madeira: the discovery in 2021 of Inscription I of the Church of Machico, a 16th-century document restored and studied by the project team, will serve as the theme for a series of...