The Amílcar Cabral Prize 2022 was awarded to the scholar of African literature Sakiru Adebayo, in the second edition of the award promoted by the Institute of Contemporary History and the Padrão dos Descobrimentos / EGEAC. Selected from ten applications,...
The opening weekend of the Festival Imaterial, in Évora, included two events organized in collaboration with the IHC and the IN2PAST Associated Laboratory, which took place at the Garcia de Resende Theatre. On Saturday, Sanjay Seth was the special guest of a panel,...
On 25 May, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences will dedicate a day to the historical and scientific context of Armando de Lacerda’s work in the 1930s, an investigation that was initiated by Quintino Lopes at the IHC. Quintino Lopes “came across”...
Tomar’s Festival of the Trays (Festa dos Tabuleiros) has been entered in the National Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage, according to an announcement published in the Diário da República on 8 May, which accepted the application submitted by Tomar City Council...
Tiago Baptista, IHC researcher and Director of the National Archive of Moving Images (ANIM, Portuguese Cinematheque — Film Museum), was elected Secretary-General of the Executive Committee of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) at the General Assembly...
The biography of King Manuel II, written by João Miguel Almeida and published by Manuscrito, was the winner of the Grémio Literário Award 2022, presented on 21 April last, during the celebrations of the 175th anniversary of the Guild. The jury considered it to be...
