The IHC has a group of researchers who study Spanish history from different perspectives. As such, the IHC regularly organises scientific meetings dedicated to that topic:

• 6 July 2024: International Congress “Renewed Spain: Post-Francoism, Transactions and Democracy (1976-1986)“
• 1-2 June 2023: International Congress “Espanha Traumática: Guerra, Ditadura, Resistências, 1936-1976“
• 3 April 2023: Encontro da Oficina de Estudos sobre o Poder e os Povos de Espanha
• 12 September 2022: International Seminar “A Espanha Invertebrada: Estado, povos e nações na Espanha contemporânea“
• 19-20 May 2022: International Congress “A crise do estado liberal no contexto ibérico: A Espanha entre guerras e revoluções (1898-1936)“
• 11 March 2022: Seminar “Juan García Oliver: Paradoxes of an anarchist in power“

The IHC has a group of researchers who, from different perspectives, have Brazil as the subject of their research. As such, the IHC regularly organises scientific meetings dedicated to this country:

• 6-7 December 2023: Workshop “Visões Não-Canónicas do Brasil“
• 15 February 2023: Meeting “Autoritarismo e democracia no Brasil, de Vargas a Bolsonaro“
• 21-23 September 2022: Research Workshop “Interpretações do Brasil: História da Historiografia Económica sobre o Brasil“
• 15, 22 e 29 March 2022: International Colloquium “Olhar de Fora: Efeitos epistemológicos da estrangeiridade“

Among the members of the IHC’s research team are a group of around four dozen Collaborating Researchers working in academic institutions outside Portugal:

• Alexandre Moreli (HP, Brazil)
• Branwen Gruffydd Jones (Cultura, UK)
• Bruno Zorek (ES, Brazil)
• Àngels Carles-Pomar (ES, Spain)
• Carlos Ángel Ordás (HP, Spain)
• Caterina Cucinotta (Cultura, Spain)
• César Rina Simón (HP, Spain)
• Cristina Blanco Sío-López (ES, Spain)
• Cristina Clímaco (HP, France)
• Daniele Serapiglia (ES, Spain)
• Danielle Sanches de Almeida (HCTA, Brazil)
• Denise De Sordi (ES, Brazil)
• Diego Palacios Cerezales (Cultura, Spain)
• Eric Brasil (ES, Brazil)
• Evaristo Caixeta Pimenta (HP, Brazil)
• Fernando Camacho Padilla (HP, Spain)
• Fernando Sanchez Salvador (ES, Spain)
• Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (HP, Ireland)
• Flamarion Maués (HP, Brazil)
• Helena F. S. Lopes (HP, UK)
• Hélia Marçal (Cultura, UK)
• Javier Marquez Quevedo (ES, Spain)
• Javier Ponce Marrero (ES, Spain)
• Jon Penche (ES, Spain)
• Juan Cristóbal Marinello Bonnefoy (HCTA, Spain)
• Marçal de Menezes Paredes (HP, Brazil)
• Marcelo Badaró Mattos (HP, Brazil)
• Maria-Benedita Basto (Cultura, France)
• Maria da Conceição Neto (HP, Angola)
• Maria Margaret Lopes (HCTA, Brazil)
• Michel Cahen (HP, France)
• Miguel Ángel Giménez Martínez (ES, Spain)
• Miguel Ayres de Campos (Cultura, UK)
• Natalia Telepneva (Cultura, UK)
• Orazio Irrera (Cultura, France)
• Patrícia Ferreira Lopes (HCTA, Spain)
• Pau Casanellas (HP, Spain)
• Pau de Soto (ES, Spain)
• Pedro Ramos Pinto (ES, UK)
• Raquel Schefer (Cultura, France)
• Rodrigo Sartori Jabur (ES, Brazil)
• Rosario Mascato Rey (HP, Spain)
• Rúben Serém (HP, UK)
• Rubén Pérez Trujillano (HP, Spain)
• Sue Onslow (HP, UK)
• Sanjay Seth (Cultura, UK)
• Vladimir Sibylla Pires (Cultura, Brazil)
• Yvette Santos (HP, France)

Every year, the IHC invites an outstanding academic to visit the Institute and carry out activities with our researchers and the academic and non-academic community:

2021:
Yuri Slezkine: he was born and raised in Moscow, USSR, and worked as a Portuguese interpreter in Mozambique and as an English teacher in Portugal before moving to Austin, Texas, to study Russian history. He has been a professor at the University of California, Berkeley for almost 30 years.

2022:
Jochen Hellbeck: is Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. Specialising in Russian history, he has been particularly interested in autobiographical accounts and self-understanding from a historical perspective.

2023:
Sue Onslow: she specialises in oral history. She has taught at the London School of Economics and the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. From 2012 to 2023, she worked at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London, where she was Director (2022-23).

2024:
Lavinia Maddaluno: is Assistant Professor of Modern History in the Department of Humanities at the Università Ca’ Foscari in Venice. Her main interest is exploring the nexus between humans, nature and the economy in early modern Europe. Since completing her PhD in 2018, she has been awarded several fellowships, including a Rome Fellowship at the British School at Rome, a Max Weber Fellowship at the EUI and, more recently, a Fellowship at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.

As a hosting institution, the IHC regularly receives researchers from various countries for research stays, under the internal Regulations for the Hosting of Visiting Researchers.

2023:

• Agnese Giannini (HP, Spain)
• Americo Freire (HP, Brasil)
• Cecília Pereira (HP, Brazil)
• Assumpció Castillo Cañiz (HP, Spain)
• Carlos Oliveira (HP, Brazil)
• Gabriel Rabelo (HP, Spain)
• Francisco Bernal (HP, Spain)
• José Luciano Neto (HP, Brazil)
• Laura Cabezas Vega (HP, Spain)
• María Jiménez Ramos (HP, Spain)
• Mario Bueno (HP, Spain)
• Sandra Fernández García (Cultura, Spain)
• Sanjay Seth (Cultura, UK)

2022:

• Alba Nueda Lozano (Cultura, Spain)
• Alessandro Micocci (Cultura, Italy)
• Alfonso Villalta (Cultura, Spain)
• Ana Mayagoitia-Soria (Cultura, Spain)
• César Rina Simón (HP, Spain)
• Eric Brasil (ES, Brazil)
• Ernesto Díaz (HP, Spain)
• Fernando Camacho Padilla (HP, Spain)
• Julia Martínez Cano (Cultura, Spain)
• Laura Cabezas (HP, Spain)

On 10 June 2021, the creation of the Amílcar Cabral Prize was announced, a joint initiative between the IHC and the Monument to the Discoveries / EGEAC that aims to promote scientific research and public debate on anti-colonial resistance and the colonial processes that mark the history of the world, from the 15th century to the present day. The prize, which is international in nature, consists of a research grant in Lisbon, to be awarded annually to a recent PhD student at a foreign or national university.

• Amílcar Cabral Prize — 3nd edition (2024): under jury deliberation.
• Amílcar Cabral Prize — 2nd edition (2022): Sakiru Adebayo, with the paper “The black soul is (still) a white man’s artefact? Postcoloniality, post-Fanonism and the tenacity of race(ism) in A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass”, published in African Studies.
• Amílcar Cabral — 1st edition (2021): Esmat Elhalaby, for the paper “Empire and Arab Indology”, published in Modern Intellectual History.

In 2020, the Erasmus+ master’s programme ‘History in the Public Sphere’ began. IHC researchers were involved in applying for this European programme and are involved in coordinating it in Portugal and mentoring students.

The programme lasts two years and focuses on how the past is represented, contested, and negotiated in the public sphere, exploring various contexts from the early modern period to the present.

The consortium includes the Central European University (Hungary), the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Japan), the NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal), the Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy), and has the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (France) as a partner. It is funded by Erasmus Mundus and the Inter-University Exchange Project (IUEP) of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT).