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...
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...
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...
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...
Nuno Silas is one of the curators of the exhibition Olhares Críticos no Arquivo Colonial – Sombras e Memórias [Critical Perspectives on the Colonial Archive – Shadows and Memories], which opened at the National Museum of Natural History and Science (MUHNAC) in Lisbon...
The winner of the fourth Amílcar Cabral Prize, Pedro Cerdeira, will be in Lisbon next week, where he will take part in the event ‘Desconstruir o Colonialismo: Entre Tradição e Revolução’ [Deconstructing Colonialism: Between Tradition and Revolution] on 5 May at the...
