Maria de Fátima Nunes, Vice-President of the IHC and Full Professor of History at the University of Évora, was invited to be Corresponding Academic of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences, in its Arts Class, History Section. The Lisbon Academy of Sciences is a scientific...
The book “Volta aos Açores em quinze dias. Diário de Bordo de uma viagem para (Não) esquecer” [Around the Azores in fifteen days], written by José Pedro Castanheira, journalist and IHC researcher, was awarded the Maria Ondina Braga Grand Prize for Travel...
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...
