In 2026, we resume our Visiting Scholars programme in January with a visit from Matt Cook, a distinguished social and cultural historian from the University of Oxford. In previous years, the IHC has hosted academics specialising in areas such as international politics...
Celebrating the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, which we had already marked with the conversation ‘Sair da Grande Noite’ (Leaving the Long Night) in July last year, the IHC now proposes a film cycle focusing on the relationship between his work and this art...
The TRANSMAT project team has published a special supplement to the journal História, Ciências, Saúde — Manguinhos, edited by Elisabete Pereira, Catarina Simões and Quintino Lopes, on the theme ‘Colonial and post-colonial collections in Portugal: reconstructing...
Pedro Cerdeira was the winner of the fourth edition of the Amílcar Cabral Prize, awarded jointly by the Institute of Contemporary History and the Monument to the Discoveries / Lisboa Cultura. The Portuguese historian, based in Switzerland, was awarded for his article...
The IHC is one of the participating institutions of the Transatlantic Crossroads Lab (TransatlanticLab) project, based at the Institute of History of the CSIC — Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, in Madrid. TransatlanticLab aims to use the Atlantic as a...
The initiative Links with History: discovering the historic houses of Ribeira Lima was the winner of the Best Partnership Project at the Iberian Heritage Awards 2025, awarded by the platform Patrimonio.pt and Spira — heritage revitalization, rewarding entities and...
