After careful reflection and deliberation about the values and changes recently introduced to the Twitter/X social network, the IHC Board has decided to leave this platform as of 7 February. The IHC has observed how hate speech and the dissemination of disinformation...
On 18 January, the exhibition Double Void by Paulo Catrica and Sebastiano Raimondo opened at the Salut au Monde! gallery in Porto. The exhibition is partly the result of the work carried out in a multidisciplinary exploratory project funded by IN2PAST and coordinated...
The Institute of Contemporary History has been invited to join the Scientific Council of the José Mário Branco Research and Documentation Centre – Music and Freedom (CEDJMB-ML), where it will be represented by its President, Luís Trindade. The CEDJMB-ML was created in...
Isabel Baltazar was admitted as a Corresponding Academician to the Portuguese Academy of History, a scientific institution of public utility that brings together specialists ‘who are dedicated to the documentary and critical reconstruction of the past, materialised in...
As 2024 drew to a close, Museums and Monuments in Portugal announced the appointment of Gonçalo de Carvalho Amaro as the new director of the National Museum of Ethnology in Lisbon. The IHC researcher was previously an employee of the Culture Directorate of the Santa...
The exhibition O humor unido jamais será vencido: os cartoons da Revolução (1974 – 1976) [Humour united will never be defeated: the cartoons of the Revolution (1974 – 1976)], curated by historian Paulo Jorge Fernandes, opened on 17 December at the Bordalo Pinheiro...
