The historian of science Lavinia Maddaluno will be the fourth IHC Visiting Scholar, i.e. she will be our special guest for a short programme of research and advanced training activities in the context of the IHC’s Platform of Advanced Studies. Lavinia Maddaluno...
At the beginning of July, Quintino Lopes was in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil), where he visited the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Bahia, the building that housed the former Phonetics Laboratory of the Federal University of Bahia. He was received by the...
PhD candidate Henrique Entratice has been selected for the 2024 edition of TheMuseumsLab, a platform for joint learning, exchange of perspectives, networking, and career development between African and European professionals. Henrique Entratice is the second IHC...
António Cândido Franco‘s “O Firmamento é Negro e Não Azul – A vida de Luiz Pacheco” was the winner of the fourth edition of the Miguel Torga Biographical Literature Grand Prize, awarded by the Portuguese Writers’ Association and Coimbra...
IHC board member Elisabete Pereira was invited to join the evaluation panel of the Franco-German Fund on the Provenance of Cultural Objects from sub-Saharan Africa. The Fund was launched at the beginning of the year at the Centre Marc Bloch by the French Ministry of...
On 24 May, Catarina Laranjeiro and Daniel Barroca opened the exhibition “The Floor is Lava!” at Fidelidade Arte in Chiado, Lisbon. The starting point for the exhibition was the film Fire in the Mud, which they both made in Guinea-Bissau. “We decided...
