It was with great dismay that the IHC Board today learned of the death of our colleague Rui Mateus Pereira (b. 1957), victim of a prolonged illness. Having joined the IHC in 2013, within the Research Group “Economy, Society, Heritage, and Innovation”, Rui was a...
In view of the contingency measures adopted by Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and FCSH in response to COVID-19, the IHC has suspended all on-site activities and canceled or postponed forthcoming scientific meetings. The IHC management team and the Digital Humanities...
The scholarship applications for the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree ‘History in the Public Sphere‘, of which IHC is one of the proposing and participating institutions, are now open. Sixteen scholarships will be awarded, covering tuition fees and...
The exhibition Portugal et Luxembourg, pays d’espoir en temps de détresse [Portugal and Luxembourg – Countries of Hope in Difficult Times], curated by Margarida de Magalhães Ramalho at the invitation of Memoshoah Luxembourg, opened at the Neimenster Abbey, the...
Researcher João Romero Chagas Aleixo was awarded an Honourable Mention in the 2019 edition of the Prize «Historical Essay of the Union of the Parishes of Faro» for the work “Faro na vida e na obra do poeta António Aleixo (1899 – 1949)” [Faro in the life and work of...
The exhibition From the Trenches to the Hospital: Portugal, Health and the Great War will reopen, now further South, in Sintra, at the São João de Deus Museum, with the opening scheduled for 20 February. With the mobilization of more than 100,000 men for the Great...