Isabel Baltazar, researcher at the IHC and lecturer at the Instituto Superior de Educação e Ciências (ISEC), and Luís Caetano were appointed coordinators of the new UNESCO UNITWIN Chair “City that Educates and Transforms“, recently approved by the United...
The conference “40 anos de Despenalização da Homossexualidade: História LGBTI+ em Portugal” [40 years of Decriminalization of Homosexuality: LGBTI+ History in Portugal], co-organized by IHC in May 2022, received the Dezanove Award for Initiative of the Year. In its...
Sanjay Seth, a professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, has arrived at the IHC as a visiting researcher, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, with the aim to question whether the discipline of history can legitimately play the role of arbiter when controversies arise...
In an initiative aimed at prospective PhD students, on 27 February the IHC will hold an Open Day. The aim of this unprecedented initiative by the Institute is to showcase the research carried out in the different IHC Research Groups, with the aim to prepare projects...
After opening at the Cultural Centre of Belém, and visits to Loulé and Vila Nova de Famalicão, the exhibition “Portuguese Forced Labourers in the III Reich” arrives, enriched, at the Portuguese Parliament, where it will be open until 24 February. The...
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...
