Leonor Areal claims to have found rare moving images of the poet Fernando Pessoa in a silent film from 1913, digitised by the Portuguese Cinematheque, in which people are seen leaving a concert at the former Teatro República, now the Teatro Municipal São Luiz, in...
Researcher Rita Luís has been invited to join Entangled Media Histories (EMHIS), a research network for European media historians whose main aim is “to challenge the traditional blind spots in perspective and common methodological nationalism of media historical...
The IHC has opened a call for contributions for its project CONNECTING PORTUGUESE HISTORY. Digital Dictionary of the Modern World, which will bring together articles from historians and social scientists from different national and foreign universities. The call for...
Fire in the Mud, the documentary directed by Catarina Laranjeiro and Daniel Barroca, won the Doclisboa INATEL Foundation Award for Best Film Dealing with Cultural and Traditional Practices as well as Intangible Cultural Heritage. As we previously reported, Fire in the...
In September, during the Festival Internacional de Cine Comunitario Afro (FICCA) KUNTA KINTE (Medellín, Colombia), the bilingual audiovisual platform Creole Connections/Conexiones Creoles was launched, in the development of which Raquel Ribeiro was involved. The...
On 13 October, at a dinner party, the IHC paid tribute to the first Emeritus Researchers in its history: António Pedro Vicente, António Reis, Augusto Fitas, and Maria Cândida Proença. Only António Pedro Vicente and Augusto Fitas were able to attend the meeting....
