The results of the 2020 Call for PhD Research Scholarships of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) were released on 1 October and the IHC was awarded four new PhD Scholarships in the History and Archaeology panel. Joana Matias proposes to study the role of...
In a partnership with the newspaper Público and the publishing house Tinta da China, the IHC has launched, in September, the online course Portugal, a Retrospective, with scientific coordination by historian Rui Tavares. The course takes a backwards approach to...
IHC researchers Pedro Aires Oliveira and Quintino Lopes were the historical consultants of the film The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, directed by João Botelho and based on the homonymous novel by José Saramago, which will open on Portuguese theatres on 1 October....
IHC’s project “Portuguese and Spanish Forced Laborers under National Socialism: History, Memory and Citizenship”, coordinated by Cláudia Ninhos, was approved for funding by the European program “Europe for Citizens – European Remembrance”. Shortly before, in the...
Today we launched the project “Memória COVID” [COVID Memory], which aims to document the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19 through personal testimonies about how people how people are living these extraordinary times and what are its effects on Portuguese society. As...
Pedro Martins is the new Editorial Director of the journal Práticas da História – Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past, replacing José Neves, who had held the position since the publication’s foundation in 2015. A researcher at the...