Isabel Baltazar was this year’s winner of the History of Europe Prize — Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for her book Repensar Portugal e a Ideia de Europa. Pensamento Contemporâneo [Rethinking Portugal and the Idea of Europe. Contemporary Thought], awarded by the Portuguese History Academy.
The book, published in 2019 by Theya Editores with the support of IHC and the Municipality of Tomar, where the author is from, “intends to show the presence of the idea of Europe in contemporary thought” and highlights “the Europeanity of Portugal and Portugal’s position vis-à-vis Europe ”. The preface was authored by Eduardo Lourenço.
Last year, the same prize was given to Fernando Rosas, for the book Salazar e os Fascismos. Ensaio breve de história comparada [Salazar and Fascisms. Brief essay of comparative history] (Tinta da China, 2019). The award ceremony is scheduled for 9 December 2020.
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Irene Flunser Pimentel won the Lusitania - History Prize from the Portuguese Academy of History -
The IHC has prepared a set of five activities for Science and Technology Week. -
The film “Guido Guidi Lives in Hiding” is a visual biography of Guido Guidi -
The exhibition addresses the processes of the Iberian transition to democracy -
Catarina Laranjeiro's FILMASPORA was funded by the FCT -
The IHC is pleased to announce that it will welcome five new students. -
The exhibition “Inhabiting Siza: architecture as seen by its residents” will be inaugurated on 10 September -
Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council -
The results of IN2PAST's third call for exploratory projects have been revealed and InDigit was approved for funding -
The film-essay written and directed by Rui Lopes premiered at Fidelidade Arte, in Lisbon -
The museum will be inaugurated on 19 July -
The IHC Summer School will return to the University of Évora for its third edition -
The historian of science will be the fourth IHC Visiting Scholar -
Quintino Lopes visited the building that housed the former Phonetics Laboratory of the Federal University of Bahia -
The PhD candidate has been selected for the 2024 edition of TheMuseumsLab -
António Cândido Franco's biography of Luiz Pacheco was the winner -
Panel of the Franco-German Fund on the Provenance of Cultural Objects from sub-Saharan Africa. -
Catarina Laranjeiro and Daniel Barroca opened the exhibition at Fidelidade Arte
