Isabel Baltazar

Comparative Political History
Contact:
ibaltazar@fcsh.unl.pt
Biography
Isabel Baltazar has a degree in Philosophy from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisbon, 1988), a master’s degree in Cultural and Political History (1995), from the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, and a PhD in History and Theory of Ideas, Specialisation in History of Political Ideas (2008), by the same University, with a thesis entitled “Portugal e a Ideia de Europa. Pensamento Contemporâneo” [Portugal and the Idea of Europe. Contemporary Thought].
Her interest in European Studies was deepened by the Post-Graduation in European Studies at the School of Law of the University of Coimbra (1995). She carried out a Post-Doctoral Research (FCT) on Europe in Portuguese Diplomacy.
She was Assistant Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University — Leiria and Guest Lecturer at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, in the Department of Political Studies, where she taught a subject on European Construction in the Masters in Political Science and International Relations, Specialisation in European Studies.
She is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC) of the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities and at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of the 20th Century (CEIS20) of the University of Coimbra.
Research fields
- Idea of Europe
- European construction
- Women and Europe
- European citizenship
- Ethics and values
Selected publications
- Baltazar, Isabel, “Reflexões sobre a Europa. O contributo de Portugal para a Cultura Europeia,” in Europa, Atlântico e o mundo: Mobilidades, crises, dinâmicas culturais. Pensar com Maria Manuela Tavares Ribeiro, coordinated by Isabel Maria Freitas Valente, 99-115. Coimbra: Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2017. [link]
- Baltazar, Isabel, “A Europa na Diplomacia Portuguesa. As vozes da imprensa durante a República,” in Outras vozes na República. Atas do Congresso Nacional de História e Ciência Política, coordinated by Isabel Corrêa da Silva and Sílvia Correia, 329-339. Lisbon: Museu da Presidência da República, 2016.
- Baltazar, Isabel. “Mulheres Portuguesas na Europa. Abertura ao Europeísmo no Século XX,” Debater a Europa 15 (2016): 25-54. [PDF]
- Baltazar, Isabel. Os Estados Unidos da Europa. Ecos do Ideal Europeu de Victor Hugo em Portugal. Lisbon: Roma Editora, 2015.
- Baltazar, Isabel, “Pela Paz”! A ideia de Estados Unidos da Europa entre guerras,” in Pela Paz! For Peace! Pour la Paix! (1849–1939), edited by Maria Manuela Tavares Ribeiro, Maria Fernanda Rollo, Isabel Maria Freitas Valente, and Alice Cunha. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2014. [link]
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This conference aims to open the space for dialogue on how Digital Humanities can boost plural approaches to history, memory, heritage, and creativity. Crossing Oceans: Digital Humanities in
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This conference aims to open the space for dialogue on how Digital Humanities can boost plural approaches to history, memory, heritage, and creativity.
Crossing Oceans: Digital Humanities in Dialogue
We are pleased to announce the international conference Crossing Oceans: Digital Humanities in Dialogue, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and digital humanists from all around the globe. This event seeks to create a space of truly transoceanic dialogue to discuss the present and future of Digital Humanities.
The conference invites participants to rethink methodologies for work in the Humanities at a time when digital transformations are reshaping how we investigate, interpret, and share knowledge. The digitization of archival materials, alongside the proliferation of born-digital records, has multiplied the sources available for historical, literary, and cultural analysis. Today, researchers have at their disposal a wide range of digital tools and software that allow them to organise, interpret, manipulate, share, and store data in increasingly diverse ways, opening new pathways for both collaborative and innovative research. At the same time, the emergence of artificial intelligence challenges us to critically assess both the possibilities and the risks of automated tools in the construction of knowledge.
Programme highlights
26 February
08:30 GMT – Registration and welcome coffee
08:45 GMT – Opening
09:00–10:30 GMT – Digital archives and collections
10:30–12:00 GMT – Digital heritage
13:00–15:00 GMT – Round-table
15:00–15:30 GMT – Coffee break
15:30–17:00 GMT – Digital approaches to colonialism
17:00–18:30 GMT – Databases and archives
27 February
08:30 GMT – Welcome coffee
09:00–10:30 GMT – Artificial Intelligence
10:30–12:00 GMT – Databases
113:00–15:00 GMT – Round-table
15:00–15:30 – Coffee break
15:30–17:00 GMT – Infrastructures and methods
17:00–18:30 GMT – Artificial Intelligence
Call for papers
By crossing oceans and perspectives, this conference aims to open the space for dialogue on how Digital Humanities can boost plural approaches to history, memory, heritage, and creativity, while also confronting questions of accessibility, ethics, and epistemic justice, as when we use these tools to give voice to new agents previously made invisible by traditional historiography, for instance.
On this conference, we welcome contributions on topics including but not limited to:
- Methodological innovations in Digital Humanities research.
- The impact of AI on the Humanities and critical approaches to its use.
- Digitization projects and the challenges of working with born-digital materials.
- Digital strategies for reaching non-academic audiences.
- Tools and projects that facilitate collaborative and transnational projects.
Submission period: 20 October – 5 December 2025 26 January 2026 [new deadline]
Participation: Free of charge, registration required
Language: English (presentations in other languages may be considered)
🔗 Registration and proposal submission
Organisation
Organising Committee
Anderson Antunes (University of Évora / IHC / IN2PAST)
Sara Albuquerque (University of Évora / IHC / IN2PAST)
Scientific Committee
Ana Margarida Dias da Silva (University of Coimbra / CHSC / DCV-UC)
Anderson Antunes (University of Évora / IHC / IN2PAST)
Daniel Alves (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Santiago Perez (CEComp — FLUL)
Sara Albuquerque (University of Évora / IHC / IN2PAST)
Silvia Valencich Frota (CEComp — FLUL)
Executive Committee
Anderson Antunes (University of Évora / IHC / IN2PAST)
Diana Barbosa (IHC — NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)
Sara Albuquerque (University of Évora / IHC / IN2PAST)
Paula Gentil Santos (University of Évora)
This conference is inspired by the KNOW.AFRICA project (https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.01599.PTDC), which investigates nineteenth-century Portuguese scientific expeditions in Angola by highlighting the invisible contributions of local agents who made travelling and collecting possible. In this project, we analyse how cooks, guides, interpreters, porters, local rulers, and others, collaborated with the construction of knowledge and the formation of scientific collections. Through the use of Digital Humanities methods and tools – such as GIS mapping, network analysis and visualisation, databases, and interactive digital timelines – KNOW.AFRICA aims to explore how digital tools can assist in the construction and dissemination of historical knowledge. By combining archival research with digital tools, the project not only advances academic debates on colonial science but also develops outputs aimed at wider publics, including digital exhibitions, podcasts, and interactive maps and timelines. In this way, KNOW.AFRICA aims to use the Digital Humanities as a way to bridge research and dissemination, turning historical inquiry into a shared, multidisciplinary and collaborative process.
Tempo
26 (Quinta-feira) 8:30 am - 27 (Sexta-feira) 6:30 pm
Organizador
Institute of Contemporary History - University of Évoracehfc@uevora.pt Largo dos Colegiais, 2 — 7000-812 Évora
News
VINCULUM — An end and a new beginning
Feb 24, 2026
FCSH hosted the closing session of the VINCULUM project
In March, Lisbon becomes the Capital of International Intrigue
Feb 21, 2026
Between 2 and 31 March, at the Portuguese Cinematheque
Anita Buhin is on a research mission in Italy
Feb 20, 2026
She is now a Visiting Researcher at CAST, University of Bologna
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