Victor Pereira was one of the winners of the 2022 edition of the Aristides de Sousa Mendes Award, with the paper “Breaking down the wall of indifference and prejudice: Portuguese diplomats in France and the rescue of Portuguese Jews”. The text highlights...
The website of the project Oral Memory of Portuguese Diplomacy has been published, aiming to contribute to the oral memory of national diplomacy, based on interviews with some of its actors, especially those who have left active diplomatic service. The 17 interviews...
The IHC announces the passing of sociologist Fernando Ampudia de Haro. To his family and closest friends, we wish to send a message of affection and strength in this very difficult hour. Fernando’s death, however not totally unexpected, leaves us sad and angry....
Historian Esmat Elhalaby, winner of the first edition of the Amílcar Cabral Prize, will be in Lisbon next week, taking part in a series of events promoted by the IHC and the Padrão dos Descobrimentos / EGEAC. Elhalaby is an Assistant Professor at the University of...
The IHC, through the inter-university research group “Using the Past. The Middle Ages in the Spotlight” and in close collaboration with the Portuguese Cinematheque, is one of the promoters of the cycle “Luz e Sombra — Representações da Idade Média no...
IN2PAST, the Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory, will be formally presented in Lisbon on the afternoon of 2 December, at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities. The only Associate Laboratory in...