The RAILWAY 1936: Archaeology on the Railway project began today. Directed by archaeologist Xurxo Ayán, has as its main objective the location of the grave and exhumation of railway worker António Ribeiro, assassinated by the Franco regime in 1936 in Castrelo do Val...
Maria de Fátima Nunes, Vice-President of the IHC Board of Directors and Full Professor at the University of Évora, was invited to join the Scientific Council for the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), coordinated...
Aurora Almada e Santos has been selected by the jury of the Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD) to be a Visiting Professor at Brown University. The IHC historian will be part of the Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies at the university located in...
Dr. Catarina Laranjeiro is currently an Integrated Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), where she is developing a research project entitled “African Modes of Self-Filming: Popular Films in Transnational Flow“, approved in the scope of...
On 16 March the “Amílcar Cabral” exhibition opened at the Baldaya Palace in Lisbon, as part of the commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April. The exhibition was curated by IHC researchers José Neves and Leonor Pires Martins. The...
Elisabete Pereira was one of the researchers selected, among almost 300 applications, to participate in TheMuseumsLab 2023 programme, “a platform for joint learning, exchange and continuing education on the future of museums in both Africa and Europe”, as the...
