Seminar about the way in which the working class and workers have been an object of memory, from historiography to heritage policies.

The Work of the Past

In the framework of Natalia Jarska‘s visit at NOVA FCSH, under the ERASMUS programme, we are hosting two seminars that also gather researchers from Lisbon.

The first one will be about the way in which the working class and workers have been an object of memory, from historiography to heritage policies, using as case-studies the Polish and Portuguese settings.

In the second seminar we will discuss the relationship between gender and socialism, in several political and social mobilisation settings, from socialist Poland to imperial Portugal.

Speakers:

• Natalia Jarska (Institute of History of Polish Academy of Sciences): Historiography and (state) socialism: constructing the history of workers in postwar Poland
• João Santos (IHC — NOVA FCSH): Industrial sites and the hidden wounds of the working class – The case of the shipyards of Lisnave and Setenave
• José Neves (IHC — NOVA FCSH): Who made O almoço do trolha? Old painting, new title

Picture: “O almoço do trolha”, by Júlio Pomar.