The IHC’s application to the Latin American Council for Social Sciences (CLACSO), the largest network of social sciences in Latin America and the Caribbean, was approved by its Steering Committee and General Assembly at the beginning of May. Paula Godinho, one...
Registration for the FCSH Summer School courses has now opened and, this year, there are twelve proposals from IHC researchers on the programme. The topics covered are many and varied: from contemporary archaeology, to cinema, music and art, through the inevitable...
The editors of the Imprensa de História Contemporânea [Contemporary History Press] have announced that two new books are to be published soon. The first of these books, O processo civilizacional da tourada: guerreiros, cortesãos, profissionais e…bárbaros? [The...
On the 21st of January, the exhibition League of Nations (1920-1946): promises and legacies opened at the National Library of Portugal. On the 24th of April, recently declared by the United Nations as the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace,...
Researcher Márcia Gonçalves was awarded the Contemporary European History Prize 2019 for the article ‘The Scramble for Africa reloaded? Portugal, European colonial claims and the distribution of colonies in the 1930s’, which will be published in the next...
Our colleague Luís Farinha ceases his position as Director of the Aljube Museum — Resistance and Freedom at the end of this month. As Director of this cultural space since its opening to the public in 2015, Luís Farinha has won wide recognition for the direction he...
