With the theme Research on Track, FCSH will celebrate its Research and Innovation Day on 11 November, and IHC will also be there: in addition to participating in parallel sessions, we will be represented in the exhibition Research in Pictures. The activities will take...
Mélanie Toulhoat was invited to join the team working on the project DEGESUD — Decentering the “sciences of childhood”. Production, circulation and reappropriation of knowledge between Geneva and the countries of the South, 1919-1980, based at the University of...
Now that the results of the seventh edition of the Call to Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC), promoted by FCT, are known, we are delighted to announce that IHC has won eight new research contracts: four in the Junior Researcher category and four in the Assistant...
The Institute of Contemporary History, the Institute of Medieval Studies and CHAM — Centre for Humanities join in expressing their condolences on the passing of historian António Borges Coelho. His works on the Arab presence in Portugal and on 1383 are an important...
Cristina Nogueira (1967-2025), a researcher at the IHC for over a decade, passed away on 10 October. A kindergarten teacher, she graduated and obtained her PhD in Education Sciences from the Faculty of Psychology and Education Science of the University of Porto, with...
Quintino Lopes was invited by the European Research Council (ERC) to act as an expert reviewer in the ERC Consolidator Grants 2025 competition, thus complementing the expertise of the members of the panel ‘Social Sciences and Humanities: Institutions, Governance and...
